Abeille.musique

Abeille Musique, a French independent company physical and 100% digital distributor

The launch of Abeille Musique took place in March 1988 at the Café Marly (Paris – Louvres), the point was “Solutions for a small market”. Thirteen years later, and after some relevant successes and partnerships with the best actors of the phonographic industry, the company has not changed its engagement serving some demanding repertoires and independent producers.

•Within a few years the distribution of recorded music was completely overhelmed, not only by the arrival of the digital, but also and much more decisively, by the uses of music lovers. These changes also affect classical music, Abeille Musique’s specialty. Whatever we can say.
•The fast decline of CDs is not offset by the positive evolution of legal digital music which is a good proof that beyond a change of “support”, it is firstly a change of practice and use we are facing. And Abeille Musique work alongside with its labels to overcome this step.
•Since 2004 (and along before others), Abeille Musique has invested time and money on digital, in order to continue its work of skilled distribution, beyond the CD, while continuing to assist in every way possible the labels who all still need the CD for living.
•Today, Abeille Musique has a unique profile not only in France but worldwide : at the same time the largest B2B French distributor of music recorded on CDs ( with hundreds of thousands in stock available at any time), and a high-quality service of B2B digital distribution. This digital distribution is not a hypothetical benefit, it’s a real one in the traditional sens with marketing and promotion services, based on a high level provision extended to all its labels ; digital booklets, high-definition files, metadatas …
•This innovative and balanced approach, was misunderstood when some labels have decided to join newcomer aggregators, mostly for a bad experience. Today, the best independent labels trust Abeille Musique!
•Thirteen years after its creation, Abeille Musique is, once again, more than ever a distributor at the cutting edge, always serving the future of independent music, which invests and develops tools for new uses’ fans in order to help its labels to host with optimism and professionalism the future distribution of their products.