The Orchard: version 1

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1	1		# The Orchard <!--company-->
2	2
3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: The Orchard
5	5		disambiguation: The New York music distributor Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., a Sony Music subsidiary; not another business trading as The Orchard
6		−	summary: Sony Music's independent-music distributor in New York, registered as Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc.; RED Distribution and RED MUSIC were merged into it in 2017.
	6	+	summary: Sony Music's independent-label distributor in New York, registered as Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc.; the world's largest indie distributor, with RED Distribution merged into it in 2017.
7	7		legal_name: Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc.
8	8		registered_address: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207, United States
	9	+	wikidata: Q2413243
9	10		country: US
10	11		website: https://www.theorchard.com/
11	12		register_ids: US-NY:2551322
12	13		founded: 2000-09-11
13	14		<!--/identity-->
14	15
15	16		## Relations <!--relations-->
16		−	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
17		−	\| -------- \| -------------------------------- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \| ----- \| ------- \| ------------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
18		−	\| owned_by \| company/sony-music-entertainment \| \| 2012 \| \| \| sourced \| ^wiki-orchard \| Sony Music took a 51 per cent stake in 2012 and bought the remaining equity in 2015; the company is described as a division of Sony Music Entertainment \|
	17	+	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
	18	+	\| -------- \| -------------------------------- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \| ----- \| -------- \| ------------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	19	+	\| owned_by \| company/sony-music-entertainment \| \| 2012 \| \| \| verified \| ^mbw-2015 \| Sony Music took 51 per cent in 2012 and agreed in March 2015 to buy the remaining shares for $200 million; Wikidata gives Sony Music Entertainment as the parent organisation and Billboard called it a Sony Music Group company in 2026 \|
	20	+	\| owned_by \| company/dimensional-associates \| \| 2003 \| 2012 \| true \| sourced \| ^wiki-orchard \| Dimensional Associates, LLC of Rye, New York bought The Orchard in 2003 and held it through the Nasdaq-listed Delaware company The Orchard Enterprises, Inc., which it took private again in a merger effective 29 July 2010 \|
19	21		<!--/relations-->
20	22
	23	+	## Establishments <!--establishments-->
	24	+	\| mark \| kind \| address \| country \| source \| note \|
	25	+	\| ---- \| ------ \| -------------------------------------- \| ------- \| ------------ \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	26	+	\| \| office \| 23 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 \| US \| ^sec-orchard \| The business address on the EDGAR record of the group's listed parent and in its filings of 2008 to 2010; the New York register still gives New York, NY 10003 for the chief executive \|
	27	+	<!--/establishments-->
	28	+
21	29		## Aliases <!--aliases-->
22		−	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
23		−	\| ---------------------------- \| ----- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
24		−	\| Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc. \| legal \| en \| \| \|
	30	+	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
	31	+	\| ---------------------------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
	32	+	\| Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc. \| legal \| en \| \| \|
	33	+	\| Orchard Enterprises \| search \| en \| \| \|
25	34		<!--/aliases-->
26	35
	36	+	## Images <!--images-->
	37	+	\| asset \| kind \| source \| licence \| attribution \| url \| accessed \| note \| provider_entity_id \| provider_image_id \| source_image_url \| download_url \| retrieved_at \| matched_barcode \| match_method \| match_confidence \| original_width \| original_height \| stored_width \| stored_height \| upscaled \|
	38	+	\| ----------------- \| ---- \| ----------------- \| ------------- \| -------------------------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ---- \| ------------------ \| ----------------- \| ---------------- \| ------------ \| ------------ \| --------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------- \| -------------- \| --------------- \| ------------ \| ------------- \| -------- \|
	39	+	\| logo-c57342e1.png \| logo \| wikimedia-commons \| public-domain \| Yoitsmeredith, The Orchard \| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_Orchard_Logo.svg \| 2026-09-22 \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
	40	+	<!--/images-->
	41	+
27	42		## References <!--references-->
28		−	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
29		−	\| ------------ \| ---------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ---------------------------------- \| ------------ \| --------- \| --------- \| ------------------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------------- \| -------- \|
30		−	\| ny-orchard \| https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?dos_id=2551322 \| New York State Department of State, Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 — ORCHARD ENTERPRISES NY, INC., DOS ID 2551322 \| 2026-09-19 \| New York State Department of State \| registry \| \| 2551322 \| Filing date, county, chief executive, agent \| \| \| \|
31		−	\| theorchard \| https://www.theorchard.com/ \| The Orchard: company site \| 2026-09-19 \| The Orchard \| manufacturer \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
32		−	\| wiki-orchard \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_Distribution \| Wikipedia: The Orchard (redirect from RED Distribution) \| 2026-09-13 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| RED Music section \| cc-by-sa-4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	43	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	44	+	\| ---------------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| --------------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------- \| ---------- \| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------------------- \| -------- \|
	45	+	\| ny-orchard \| https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?dos_id=2551322 \| New York State Department of State, Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 — ORCHARD ENTERPRISES NY, INC., DOS ID 2551322 \| 2026-09-22 \| New York State Department of State \| registry \| \| 2551322 \| Filing date, county, entity type, chief executive, agent \| \| \| \|
	46	+	\| theorchard \| https://www.theorchard.com/ \| The Orchard: company site \| 2026-09-22 \| The Orchard \| manufacturer \| \| \| Global offices; languages; press releases \| \| \| \|
	47	+	\| wiki-orchard \| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchard_(company) \| Wikipedia: The Orchard (company) \| 2026-09-22 \| Wikipedia \| publication \| \| \| History; RED Music; Owned repertoire; Film distribution \| cc-by-sa-4.0 \| Wikipedia contributors \| \|
	48	+	\| wikidata-orchard \| https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2413243.json \| Wikidata item Q2413243: The Orchard (inception, headquarters, parent organisation, legal form, official website) \| 2026-09-22 \| Wikidata \| catalogue \| \| Q2413243 \| \| CC0 \| \| \|
	49	+	\| variety-navin \| https://variety.com/exec/brad-navin/ \| Variety: Brad Navin, The Orchard \| 2026-09-22 \| Variety \| publication \| \| \| Revenue, market share, cities and employees for 2024 \| \| \| \|
	50	+	\| bb-bulletin \| https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/may-15-2026-billboard-bulletin.pdf \| Billboard Bulletin, 15 May 2026: The Orchard's Richard Gottehrer on his years as a hit songwriter \| 2026-09-22 \| Billboard \| publication \| 2026-05-15 \| \| Revenue estimate and United States market share \| \| \| \|
	51	+	\| bb-2015 \| https://web.archive.org/web/20190415114942/https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6502517/orchard-sony-acquisition-by-the-numbers \| Billboard: Sony's Orchard Acquisition, By the Numbers and Behind the Scenes (Wayback capture of 15 April 2019) \| 2026-09-22 \| Billboard \| publication \| \| \| Valuations, market shares, markets served \| \| \| \|
	52	+	\| mbw-2015 \| https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sony-fully-acquires-the-orchard-in-200m-deal/ \| Music Business Worldwide: Sony fully acquires The Orchard in $200m deal \| 2026-09-22 \| Music Business Worldwide \| publication \| 2015-03-18 \| \| \| \| \| \|
	53	+	\| mbw-labels \| https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/the-orchard-and-willing-sellers/ \| Music Business Worldwide: On the Orchard, indie deals, and willing sellers \| 2026-09-22 \| Music Business Worldwide \| publication \| 2025-07-17 \| \| Rob Stringer's investor address on labels served \| \| \| \|
	54	+	\| sec-10ka \| https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1339729/000114420410023519/v182624_10ka.htm \| The Orchard Enterprises, Inc., Form 10-K/A for 2009, Part III, filed 30 April 2010 \| 2026-09-22 \| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission \| registry \| 2010-04-30 \| 1339729 \| Directors; security ownership; certain relationships and related transactions \| \| \| \|
	55	+	\| sec-ex21 \| https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1339729/000114420410015691/v177257_ex21-1.htm \| The Orchard Enterprises, Inc., Exhibit 21.1 to the Form 10-K for 2009: schedule of significant subsidiaries \| 2026-09-22 \| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission \| registry \| 2010-03-25 \| 1339729 \| \| \| \| \|
	56	+	\| sec-13da \| https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418220/000095012310071058/y85900sc13dza.htm \| Dimensional Associates, LLC, Schedule 13D/A Amendment No. 6 on The Orchard Enterprises, Inc., event of 29 July 2010 \| 2026-09-22 \| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission \| registry \| 2010-08-02 \| 1418220 \| Item 4; Item 5 \| \| \| \|
	57	+	\| sec-orchard \| https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001339729.json \| SEC EDGAR submissions record, Orchard Enterprises, Inc., CIK 0001339729: former name Digital Music Group, Inc., EIN 20-3365526, Delaware, 23 E. 4th Street \| 2026-09-22 \| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission \| registry \| \| 0001339729 \| \| \| \| \|
33	58		<!--/references-->
34	59
35	60		## About <!--about-->
36		−	Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., trading as The Orchard, is the New York music distribution and artist-services company through which Sony Music runs its independent-label business; it calls itself the world's largest independent music distributor and does digital and physical distribution, marketing, rights management, royalty accounting and video monetisation.[^wiki-orchard][^theorchard] Richard Gottehrer and Scott Cohen started the business in 1997, and it was an early supplier to the iTunes Store; the corporation that carries it was entered in the New York register on 11 September 2000 and gives Corporation Service Company in Albany as its address for service.[^wiki-orchard][^ny-orchard] Sony Music took 51 per cent in 2012, merging IODA into it, and bought the rest in 2015.[^wiki-orchard]
	61	+	Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., trading as The Orchard, is the New York company through which Sony Music runs its independent-label distribution and artist-services business, and the largest distributor of independent music in the world.[^wiki-orchard][^bb-bulletin] It handles digital and physical distribution, marketing, publishing administration, rights management, royalty accounting, video monetisation and sync licensing for labels and artists.[^wiki-orchard] By 2024 it worked from 48 cities with more than 700 employees and revenue reported at over $1 billion, and Sony Music Group's Rob Stringer told investors that The Orchard services 26,000 independent labels.[^variety-navin][^mbw-labels] In May 2026 Billboard estimated that it was closing in on $2 billion in annual revenue, on a United States market share that had hovered around 10.75 per cent through early May.[^bb-bulletin]
37	62
38		−	RED Distribution, Sony's other American independent distributor, was folded into The Orchard on 5 June 2017 along with its British affiliate Red Essential, and the RED MUSIC name that survived the merger was shut down in September 2019.[^wiki-orchard] Brad Navin, chief executive since 2010, is named as the corporation's chief executive in the New York register.[^wiki-orchard][^ny-orchard] The Orchard's film arm was sold in 2019 and renamed 1091 Media.[^wiki-orchard] This page was written as a short entry to carry the merger; its offices, its Wikidata item and its own register history beyond the 2000 filing are not researched here.
	63	+	Richard Gottehrer and Scott Cohen started The Orchard in New York in 1997 as a distributor of independent music to online stores, and it was an early supplier to Apple's iTunes Store, licensing a catalogue of about 150,000 titles at its launch.[^wiki-orchard] The corporation that carries the business was entered in the New York register on 11 September 2000 as a domestic business corporation of New York County, with Corporation Service Company at 80 State Street in Albany as its address for service and Brad Navin, chief executive since 2010, named as its chief executive.[^ny-orchard][^wiki-orchard] Colleen Theis, who had run the United Kingdom and Europe, became chief operating officer in 2012 and is now president as well; the United Kingdom was the company's second-largest market in 2023.[^wiki-orchard] The Orchard's own site runs in eleven languages and lists offices around the world.[^theorchard] Wikidata dates the company to 1997, seats it in New York City and gives Sony Music Entertainment as its parent organisation.[^wikidata-orchard]
	64	+
	65	+	Ownership has changed hands twice. Dimensional Associates, LLC, an investment firm at 1091 Boston Post Road in Rye, New York, bought The Orchard in 2003.[^wiki-orchard][^sec-10ka] In November 2007 the business was merged into the Nasdaq-listed Digital Music Group, Inc., which took the name The Orchard Enterprises, Inc.; its annual report for 2009 lists Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc. among its significant subsidiaries, alongside companies in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, California and Delaware.[^sec-ex21][^sec-orchard] Dimensional held about 53.4 per cent of that company's common stock, some 54 per cent of the voting stock on a fully diluted basis, and took it private in a merger effective 29 July 2010.[^sec-10ka][^sec-13da] Sony Music bought 51 per cent in 2012 against a valuation of $100 to $105 million, folding in its own digital distributor IODA, and agreed in March 2015 to acquire the remaining shares for $200 million, a price that valued the company at $392 million.[^bb-2015][^mbw-2015]
	66	+
	67	+	RED Distribution, Sony's other American independent distributor, was folded into The Orchard on 5 June 2017 together with its British affiliate Red Essential, after Sony had already merged the British distributor Essential, Germany's Finetunes and Norway's Phonofile into it; the enlarged company then had more than 300 employees in 30 offices and revenue of about $500 million. The RED MUSIC name that survived the merger was shut down in September 2019.[^wiki-orchard] The Orchard owns the catalogues of TVT Records, Premium Latin Music, Blind Pig Records, Frenchkiss Records and Shrapnel Records among others, and runs a YouTube network of more than 8,000 channels; its film arm was sold in 2019 and renamed 1091 Media.[^wiki-orchard] Its share of American distribution has grown with each of those steps: Billboard put The Orchard at about 1.57 per cent and RED at 4.02 per cent in 2015, when The Orchard operated in 25 markets and took revenue of over $200 million,[^bb-2015] Variety reported just over 8 per cent for 2024,[^variety-navin] and Billboard about 10.75 per cent for 2026 to early May.[^bb-bulletin]
39	68		<!--/about-->

Source of v1

# The Orchard <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: The Orchard
disambiguation: The New York music distributor Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., a Sony Music subsidiary; not another business trading as The Orchard
summary: Sony Music's independent-music distributor in New York, registered as Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc.; RED Distribution and RED MUSIC were merged into it in 2017.
legal_name: Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc.
registered_address: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207, United States
country: US
website: https://www.theorchard.com/
register_ids: US-NY:2551322
founded: 2000-09-11
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                           | market | from | until | ended | status  | source        | note                                                                                                                                                    |
| -------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-music-entertainment |        | 2012 |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-orchard | Sony Music took a 51 per cent stake in 2012 and bought the remaining equity in 2015; the company is described as a division of Sony Music Entertainment |
<!--/relations-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                         | type  | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc. | legal | en     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                                        | title                                                                                                                  | accessed   | publisher                          | kind         | published | record_id | locator                                     | licence      | attribution            | upstream |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| ny-orchard   | https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?dos_id=2551322 | New York State Department of State, Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 — ORCHARD ENTERPRISES NY, INC., DOS ID 2551322 | 2026-09-19 | New York State Department of State | registry     |           | 2551322   | Filing date, county, chief executive, agent |              |                        |          |
| theorchard   | https://www.theorchard.com/                                | The Orchard: company site                                                                                              | 2026-09-19 | The Orchard                        | manufacturer |           |           |                                             |              |                        |          |
| wiki-orchard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_Distribution             | Wikipedia: The Orchard (redirect from RED Distribution)                                                                | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia                          | publication  |           |           | RED Music section                           | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., trading as The Orchard, is the New York music distribution and artist-services company through which Sony Music runs its independent-label business; it calls itself the world's largest independent music distributor and does digital and physical distribution, marketing, rights management, royalty accounting and video monetisation.[^wiki-orchard][^theorchard] Richard Gottehrer and Scott Cohen started the business in 1997, and it was an early supplier to the iTunes Store; the corporation that carries it was entered in the New York register on 11 September 2000 and gives Corporation Service Company in Albany as its address for service.[^wiki-orchard][^ny-orchard] Sony Music took 51 per cent in 2012, merging IODA into it, and bought the rest in 2015.[^wiki-orchard]

RED Distribution, Sony's other American independent distributor, was folded into The Orchard on 5 June 2017 along with its British affiliate Red Essential, and the RED MUSIC name that survived the merger was shut down in September 2019.[^wiki-orchard] Brad Navin, chief executive since 2010, is named as the corporation's chief executive in the New York register.[^wiki-orchard][^ny-orchard] The Orchard's film arm was sold in 2019 and renamed 1091 Media.[^wiki-orchard] This page was written as a short entry to carry the merger; its offices, its Wikidata item and its own register history beyond the 2000 filing are not researched here.
<!--/about-->