Ford Music Services

Respect Music has signed an agreement with Ford Music Services to represent it’s catalogue in the UK. In turn Ford Music Services is representing Respect Music in the US.

Artists on WorldSongNet.com

• Ford Music Services is the music industry’s most effective and innovative film & television music marketing company.  They utilise a state-of-the-art business-to-business online song search system and aggressive marketing techniques.  The company’s online system and experienced domestic and international sales staffs are utilised by major advertising agencies, film studios, music supervisors, trailer houses, producers, directors and music editors to find music for film, television, new media and advertising productions on a weekly basis.

• Ford Music Services currently represents catalogues from music publishers, record labels, Grammy Award winning songwriters, composers and recording artists for placement in film, television, new media and advertising.

Art Ford, Founder of  Ford Music Services:

• Ford Music Services was formed in January 2001 by eight-year BMG Music Publishing film & television music marketing innovator Art Ford.  As Vice President of Film & Television Music at BMG, Ford increased BMG’s synchronisation and soundtrack mechanical revenues over 400% utilising new marketing techniques.  He pioneered music publishing’s first song search system in 1993 by launching the ground breaking 1-888-BMG-SONG preview system (pre-Internet.)  The system set a new standard in the industry for marketing songs.   In 1999, Ford created the Sundance Film Festival’s first official music showcase called “Where Music Meets Film – Live From The Sundance Film Festival,” which was a VH-1 television special produced in association withRobert Redford and The Sundance Institute. Art created the showcase to give major and emerging recording artists the opportunity to interact with many of the world’s most notable filmmakers to explore future soundtracks.  Due to the tremendous success of the 1999 music showcases, it has now become an annual event at Sundance.  Artists such as Josh Stone, The BeeGees, Josh Groban, Babyface, Michelle Branch, Joan Osbourne, Lindsey Buckingham and many others have performed.  Art utilised the advertising community’s Clio Awards to market BMG’s song catalogs to the advertising community by hosting music panels and sponsoring music related events as the first exclusive music sponsor for the Clio Awards.  No music publisher or record label had ever used the Clios to gain exposure for their music catalogs before.  As a result of Ford’s reputation in the synchronisation area, in January of 2002 he was brought in as the Music Supervisor for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympicsin Salt Lake City.

• FILM: Ford Music Services has licensed music in many current Blockbusters, such as  Austin Powers, G-Force, Race To Witch Mountain, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Barbershop 2, Charlie’s Angels, Breaking All The Rules, Stomp The Yard, The Butterfly Effect, The Bourne Identity, V For Vendetta, Akeelah & The Bee, Mr. 3000,  ATL, XXX: State Of The Unio, and many others.

• TELEVISION: They’ve placed many songs in the biggest television programs, including the hit series Desperate Housewives, Six Feet Under, CSI: Miami, The Shield, Las Vegas, Nip Tuck and many others.

• COMMERCIALS: Most notably, Ford Music Services has become a leader in licensing songs to some of the most lucrative and influential advertising campaigns in the world, including Citibank,  Nextel, Coca-Cola, The Gap, MCI, Volvo and Old Navy.

• NEW MEDIA: Ford Music Services has licensed multiple songs to the multi-million selling Sony PlayStation ‘Primal’ video game and the NFL Street 3 video game, along with numerous songs to other video games manufacturers and developers.