The Bicycle Music Company: version 1

Saved 2026-09-25 12:59 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the 2017 single-LP vinyl reissue of Evanescence – Fallen (UPC 888072025097, BMC00020), completing a variant row on family/evanescence-fallen. Identity from MusicBrainz and six Discogs entries sh. This is the current version.

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# The Bicycle Music Company <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: The Bicycle Music Company
summary: Record label name of the Los Angeles music publisher founded in 1974, which bought the Wind-up catalogue in 2013 and merged into Concord in 2015.
founded: 1974
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target          | market | from    | until | ended | status  | source        | note                                                                                                               |
| ---------- | --------------- | ------ | ------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| imprint_of | company/concord |        | 2015-04 |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-bicycle | The Bicycle Music Company merged with Concord Music Group in April 2015 to form Concord Bicycle Music, now Concord |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                            | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Bicycle Music                   | name  |        |      |       |
| The Bicycle Music Company, Inc. | legal |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref             | url                                                 | title                                                                              | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator                              | licence      | attribution            | upstream |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| discogs-us-2017 | https://api.discogs.com/releases/4726282            | Discogs release 4726282: Evanescence – Fallen (LP, Album, Reissue, 180g, US, 2017) | 2026-09-25 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 4726282   | Identifiers, companies, notes        |              |                        |          |
| wiki-bicycle    | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Music_Company | Wikipedia: Bicycle Music Company                                                   | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | Wind-up catalogue and Concord merger | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
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## About <!--about-->
The Bicycle Music Company was a music publisher and rights company founded in 1974 by David Rosner, which by 2010 owned or administered over 12,000 works.[^wiki-bicycle] In October 2013 it bought the catalogue of Wind-up Records and partnered with Concord Music Group to distribute it; the two companies merged in April 2015.[^wiki-bicycle] Its name is the label on the 2017 vinyl reissue of Evanescence's Fallen, catalogue number BMC00020, where The Bicycle Music Company, Inc. holds the ℗ and ©.[^discogs-us-2017]
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