BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)

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BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (also credited as BMG Direct Marketing) was BMG's US company that owned the BMG Music Service record club.
If the release text states BMG Direct, please use that label instead.

Not a ‘true’ label, but treated as one in MB, for now. When you spot BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. on a release please:

  • Add BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. as label with the D###### code as the catalogue number
  • Add other visible labels with their respective catalogue numbers
  • Add ‘BMG club edition’ to the disambiguation
  • If you see Mfd. for BMG Direct Marketing, Inc., add the manufactured for release-label relationship

BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. was the US company that owned the BMG Music Service record club, and by extension, BMG Direct.
The company was formed in 1988, when Bertelsmann Music Group acquired RCA, owner of the RCA Music Service record club. The record club was then renamed BMG Music Service. BMG Music Service acquired Columbia House in June 2005. BMG Music Service ceased operations on June 30, 2009.

Catalog numbers of the original label appear on BMG Direct/BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. pressings as normal.
For legacy releases: If, on a release, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. is credited as a label, instead add the release's actual label(s) and catalog number(s) as the label credit, and format BMG Direct Marketing, Inc.'s using the manufactured by release-label relationship, or whatever relationship is applicable.

Annotation last modified on 2021-08-05 07:56 UTC.

Releases

ReleaseArtistFormatTracksCountry/DateCatalog#Barcode
Come On Feel The Lemonheads (4 hidden tracks: split, silence trimmed)The LemonheadsCD19
  • US1993-10-12
D 101621[none]
Come On Feel The Lemonheads (club edition)The LemonheadsCD15
  • US1993-10-12
D 101621[none]
Trio '65 (club edition)Bill Evans TrioCD8
  • US1993-10-19
D 105921[none]
Greatest Hits (BMG club edition, no barcode)Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersCD18
  • US1993-11-09
D 102390[none]
Doggystyle (BMG club edition)Snoop Doggy DoggCD18
  • US1993-11-23
D101692[none]
Get a GripAerosmithCassette14
C120814[none]
The Celtic HarpThe ChieftainsCD12
D 100323[none]
Flute QuartetsMozart; Tokyo String Quartet, James GalwayCD23
D 100430[none]
Let It Rock: Best of The Georgia SatellitesThe Georgia SatellitesCD20
D 100880[none]
Pork SodaPrimusCD15
D 101167[none]
Native TonguePoisonCD15
D 101194[none]
Harbor Lights (BMG DIrect Marketing)Bruce HornsbyCD10
D 101262[none]
Duran Duran (BMG club edition)Duran DuranCD13
D 101268[none]
Songs of Faith and Devotion (club edition)Depeche ModeCD10
D 101362[none]
San Francisco DaysChris IsaakCD12
D 101428
Porno for PyrosPorno for PyrosCD11
D 101429[none]
Star (BMG Direct)BellyCD15
D 101449[none]
The Ultimate ExperienceJimi HendrixCD20
D 101527[none]
On the NightDire StraitsCD10
D 101566[none]
The Beavis and Butt‐Head ExperienceVarious ArtistsCD12
D 101571[none]
At Worst… The Best of Boy George and Culture Club (BMG Club Edition)Boy GeorgeCD19
D 101575[none]
Saturation (BMG club release)Urge OverkillCD12
D 101600[none]
Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers) (BMG club edition)Wu‐Tang ClanCD12
D 101613[none]
Songs of Faith and Devotion: Live (club edition)Depeche ModeCD10
D 101623[none]
No Alternative (girl on cover, track 19 unlisted.)Various ArtistsCD19
D 101625[none]
Brahms: 9 Hungarian Dances / Dvorak: Symphonic Variations / Czech Suite (Club Edition)Brahms, Dvořák; NDR Sinfonieorchester, John Eliot GardinerCD15
D 101694[none]
Eine AlpensinfonieRichard Strauss; Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von KarajanCD22
D 101702[none]
So Tonight That I Might SeeMazzy StarCD10
D 101735[none]
Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (BMG Direct)Cowboy JunkiesCD12
D 101764[none]
Into The LabyrinthDead Can DanceCD11
D 101795[none]
Big Red Letter DayBuffalo TomCD11
D 101837[none]
Duran DuranDuran DuranCD9
D 101929[none]
The Sign (BMG club edition)Ace of BaseCD12
D 102354[none]
Hand on the Torch (BMG club edition)Us3CD13
D 102362[none]
A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits, Volume OneThe Sisters of MercyCD12
D 102443[none]
Mad About BachJohann Sebastian BachCD19
D 102482[none]
Mad About Baroque (Club Edition)Various ArtistsCD20
D 102489[none]
Mad About Violins (Club Edition)Various ArtistsCD9
D 102502[none]
Paid VacationRichard MarxCD12
D 102537[none]
God Shuffled His FeetCrash Test DummiesCD12
D 102593[none]
Tuesday Night Music Club (BMG club edition)Sheryl CrowCD11
D 103061[none]
Both Sides (BMG club edition)Phil CollinsCD11
D 103096[none]
Symphonien nos. 5 & 6 "Pastorale" (Karajan Gold, BMG club edition)Ludwig van Beethoven; Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von KarajanCD9
D 103127[none]
Menagerie: The Essential Zydeco CollectionBuckwheat ZydecoCD11
D 103179[none]
Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid (BMG club release)Collective SoulCD13
D 103309[none]
Dazed and Confused: Music From the Motion PictureVarious ArtistsCD14
D 104944[none]
Mono (BMG club release)Fury in the SlaughterhouseCD11
D 105890[none]
Saint‐Saëns: Symphony no. 3 / Messiaen: The AscensionSaint‐Saëns, Messiaen; Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun ChungCD8
D 106287[none]
My Aim Is TrueElvis CostelloCD22
D 106951[none]
Traffic From Paradise (club edition)Rickie Lee JonesCD10
D 110122[none]
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 14 / Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death (Club Edition)Dmitri Shostakovich, Modest Mussorgsky; Gotenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ljuba Kazarnovskaya, Sergei LeiferkusCD15
D 110264[none]
Oboe Concertos (BMG club edition)Antonio Vivaldi; Stephen Hammer, Frank de Bruine, Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient MusicCD18
D 110574[none]
Live at the Five Spot Discovery! (BMG club edition)Thelonious Monk feat. John ColtraneCD5
D 110906[none]
EvolutionGeoff Moore & the DistanceCD10
D 111543[none]
Pablo HoneyRadioheadCD13
D 115318[none]
Siamese Dream (BMG club edition)Smashing PumpkinsCD13
D 115586[none]
Symphony no. 1 / 4 Etudes-tableauxSergei Rakhmaninov; BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki OtakaCD8
D 116111
Bump AheadMr. BigCD11
D 120599[none]
Highlights: The Very Best of YesYesCD12
D 120671[none]
Add It Up (1981–1993)Violent FemmesCD23
D 120680[none]
Tell the TruthBilly SquierCD12
D 121042[none]
World Gone WrongBob DylanCD10
D 122585
Jazzmatazz, Volume 1GuruCD12
D 125063[none]
Electric LadylandThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceCD16
D 125440[none]
Are You ExperiencedThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceCD17
D 125457[none]
So Far So Good (BMG club edition)Bryan AdamsCD14
D 134771[none]
MTV Unplugged (EW 835)10,000 ManiacsCD14
D 135061075596156929
Pini di Roma / Fontane di Roma / Feste Romane (Club Edition)Ottorino Respighi; New York Philharmonic, Giuseppe SinopoliCD12
D 135381[none]
HaircutGeorge Thorogood & the DestroyersCD10
D 143362[none]
Gravity’s Rainbow (D 153431 is on spline, rear insert and CD. F2-21982 is also on CD and 0946 3 21982 2 8 is on last page of front artwork)Pat BenatarCD12
D 153431[none]
Soul Dancing (BMG club edition)Taylor DayneCD11
D 153498[none]
The Way That I Am (BMG Club Edition)Martina McBrideCD10
D 153535[none]
The Way That I Am (BMG club edition)Martina McBrideCD10
D 153535[none]
Symphonies for Strings nos. 8 · 9 · 10 (Club Edition)Felix Mendelssohn; Orpheus Chamber OrchestraCD9
D 153630[none]
The Best of Howard Jones (BMG Direct)Howard JonesCD18
D 153758[none]
DebutBjörkCD11
D 160021[none]
Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits (BMG club edition)Bette MidlerCD14
D 164291[none]
Glenn Frey LiveGlenn FreyCD14
D 164314
The Hits 2 (BMG Direct Marketing)PrinceCD18
D 172325[none]
Midnight Marauders (BMG Music Service)A Tribe Called QuestCD14
D 173897
Songs • Lieder (Club Edition)Grieg; Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt ForsbergCD25
D 174269[none]
Shaq Diesel (BMG Music Service)Shaquille O’NealCD12
D 174293[none]
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (BMG Direct with barcode)The CranberriesCD12
D 180023[none]
Three Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (club edition)Béla Fleck and the FlecktonesCD13
D 182220[none]
The Vanishing Race (club edition)Air SupplyCD10
D 182226[none]
Millennium (club edition)Earth, Wind & FireCD16
D 183232[none]
Banba (club edition)ClannadCD11
D 183647[none]
Live: Right Here, Right NowVan Halen2×CD13 + 11
D 201165[none]
The Essential Sonny Boy WilliamsonSonny Boy Williamson2×CD23 + 22
D 224678[none]
The Buddy Holly Collection (club edition)Buddy Holly2×CD25 + 25
D 284047[none]
First Issue: The Dinah Washington StoryDinah Washington2×CD25 + 21
D 293730[none]
The Hits 1PrinceCD18
D 502228[none]
Face the Heat (Club Edition)ScorpionsCD11
D 503504[none]
What’s Love Got to Do With It (BMG club edition)Tina TurnerCD12
D 504166[none]
Spanish Angel (BMG club edition)Paul Winter ConsortCD12
D 513669[none]
Ten Summoner’s Tales (BMG club edition)StingCD11
D101334[none]
Fate of Nations (club edition)Robert PlantCD11
D101409[none]
Edge of ThornsSavatageCD13
D101422[none]
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection EncoreVarious ArtistsCD16
D102466[none]
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (BMG club edition)Sarah McLachlanCD12
D102536[none]