The Music Business Association has welcomed 12 companies in its winter 2026 member intake, adding businesses across music rights, distribution, technology, marketing and finance.
The association’s membership spans more than 400 global companies, with shared goals of supporting industry financial growth and a more equitable, inclusive workplace.
Venue entertainment and marketing
- AMI Entertainment: Chicago, Illinois; 117 years in business; website: amientertainment.com.
- Audiction Agency: Oceanside, California; 1 year in business; website: audictionagency.com.
- Azola Creative, LLC: Saint Johns, Florida; 6 years in business; website: azolacreative.com.
AMI Entertainment supplies digital jukeboxes, mobile tools and content delivery systems to bars, restaurants and social venues across the country, allowing guests to participate in music selection.
Alongside its flagship jukebox platform, AMI offers background music, trivia and AMI Music Bingo as additional entertainment options for venues.
Audiction Agency works with artists, labels and community-driven brands on merchandise revenue. Its Shopify-based lifecycle marketing combines email and SMS (short message service) automation, paid advertising, retargeting and drop planning.
These services aim to turn fans into repeat merchandise buyers.
Azola Creative is a marketing operations consultancy focused on brand engagement and sales pipelines. It uses proprietary frameworks to connect marketing activity with business goals and improve efficiency and effectiveness.
The consultancy also works to align chief executive officers and marketers, helping marketing teams demonstrate their contribution to growth through established practices and new opportunities to improve return on investment.
Rights, distribution and artist platforms
- Gaan Baksho Group: New South Wales, Australia; 11 years in business; website: gaanbaksho.com.
- Garner Group Music, LLC: Decatur, Georgia; 30 years in business; website: garnergroupmusic.com.
- limbo/: Orlando, Florida; 20 years in business; website: limbomusic.com.
- MazeFlower, PBC: Plymouth, Massachusetts; 1 year in business; website: mazeflower.com.
- Wahana Media Entertainment: DKI Jakarta, Indonesia; 27 years in business; website: wahanamedia.com.
Gaan Baksho Group is an Australian media and music company providing business-to-business rights and revenue services on an invitation-only basis.
Its GBM Publishing division handles global publishing administration and royalty flows. Gaan Baksho Music manages worldwide rights and digital distribution to key DSPs (digital service providers).
Radio Gaan Baksho provides curated airplay support through frequency modulation (FM) radio and online broadcasting.
Liz Garner, founder of Garner Group Music, specializes in music publishing acquisitions and copyright law. She manages the Isaac Hayes Estate and Dallas Austin catalogs.
Garner also works on copyright terminations for numerous recording artists, seeking to restore copyright control to songwriters and heirs and support generational wealth.
limbo/ offers modular distribution and an API (application programming interface) for labels, distributors and music technology platforms. Custom modules let users assemble distribution infrastructure with protection features.
MazeFlower is a public benefit corporation whose music platform financially rewards artists for active participation and investment. Its model links artist success with platform viability while connecting fans with music.
Wahana Media Entertainment, also known as Wahana Media, was founded by Mr. Muchtar Simanjuntak and began in the music label industry.
AI attribution and content protection
- Neutune Co: Seoul, South Korea; 6 years in business; website: neutune.com.
- SoundPatrol: Los Angeles, California; 1 year in business; website: soundpatrol.com.
Neutune develops attribution infrastructure for AI (artificial intelligence)-generated music. Its technology tracks the influence of copyrighted material on AI outputs at the component level.
The company’s approach includes intrinsic attribution and MusicDNA, with solutions for both cooperative and non-cooperative AI music platforms.
Neutune is piloting its technology with KOMCA, Korea’s performance rights organization, and has licensed thousands of tracks with full block-level attribution.
It also operates MixAudio, a consumer AI remix platform demonstrating attribution-aware music generation at commercial scale.
SoundPatrol develops AI-driven content protection and rights enforcement tools, using neural fingerprinting, digital watermarking and large-scale detection across UGC (user-generated content) platforms, streaming services and enterprise environments.
Its rights management infrastructure helps labels, distributors and platforms identify and attribute unauthorized music uses, enforce rights at scale and enable compliant monetization.
Vinyl manufacturing and financing
- Hellbender Vinyl: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 4 years in business; website: hellbendervinyl.com.
- Pipeline: London, United Kingdom; 1 year in business; website: pipeline.media.
Hellbender Vinyl operates a record pressing plant manufacturing 7-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch vinyl records.
Pipeline provides financing for the music and creative industries, helping independent music companies access growth capital and realize the value of their IP (intellectual property).
The company’s stated aim is to make capital more efficient, transparent and affordable for businesses with intellectual property.
