a non-profit organization that was created in 1993 through the initiative of French record labels, and with the help of both public organisms and private professionals from the record industry and the live music scene.
Its goal is to collectively help French music professionals to develop the presence of their artists and productions abroad, and thus aid French record sales abroad as well.
The French Music Export Office has, as its goal, to accompany music industry professionals in their exporting endeavours, to make available to them a network of tools and contacts in order to facilitate their prospective work, and to diminish the risk factor, thanks notably to our financial aid programs.
Out of a general concern, the Export Office assures a protective, informative, prospective and counselling role for French record companies.
In freeing up the necessary synergies between the various partners and operators in France and abroad, the Export Office puts in relation French and international professionals.
It also coordinates the French presence on international music fairs and organizes professional encounters in France and abroad.
The Export Office guarantees a communication and promotional mission, by proposing detailed information about French productions via numerous communication tools aiming to promote the artists abroad.
Finally, the Export Office offers different financial support programs to the French record companies, notably through its export and promotion commissions.
With the support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Music Export Office has created a network comprising 9 Offices and Correspondents throughout the world, in countries with important markets, and with geographical competences that can sometimes extend beyond the territories where they are implanted.
Depending on the territory where our partners are installed, each Office or Correspondent can propose their own tools and aid.
Our Offices:
- in Germany (Berlin) / geographical competence extending to Austria, Germanic Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe
- in the UK (London) / geographical competence extending to the United Kingdom
- in Spain (Barcelona) / geographical competence extending to Portugal
- in the United States (New York)
- in Japan (Tokyo)
Our Correspondents:
- in Russia (Moscow)
- in Poland (Warsaw)
- in Brazil (San Paulo)
- in Mexico (Mexico City)
Thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and SACEM, the French Music Export Office has now been set up to help export classical music since 2005.
This will enable communication actions and the use of information tools. A Resource Centre has been set up and has already published two guides exclusively concerning classical music: the French Classical Music Directory and the Cahier Export UK – Classique.
In addition, the Export Office is uniting French and foreign Classical Music professionals through a network to facilitate professional meetings and promotional operations.
The Export Office is finally offering direct financial support to professionals through the Promotional Commission for Classical Musicians, whose goal is to aid the international development of artists through their record production. The first commission has been in place since June 2006.
All of these activities are based out of France, so any offices of the network that don’t have direct contact with their respective Classical Music professionals should contact the Classical Music representative at the Paris Office for any information.
For more information: Classical Music Page (http://www.french-music.org/francais/
musicbygenre.php?genre=Classical&sez=classical)
The French Music Export Office addresses itself to all French music industry professionals who wish to promote their productions and artists abroad.
The principle interlocutors are:
*French record companies & labels,
*French booking agencies,
*French artists and managers (via the record companies),
*French publishers,
*the French cultural network abroad,
*the international and French media,
*foreign industry professionals potentially interested by French artists: record companies, booking agencies, festivals, publishers, etc…
*The French record companies,
*Public Bodies:
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
- Ministry of Culture and Communication,
- the AFAA (French Agency for Artistic Action),
- UBIFRANCE (French Agency for the International Development of Enterprises),
*Professional Organisms:
- the SCPP (Civil Society of Phonographic Producers),
- the SPPF (Society of French Phonographic Producers),
- the SNEP (National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing)
- the SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers of Music),
- the FCM (Funds for Musical Creation),
- the CNV (National Centre for Song, Jazz and Variety)
- the ADAMI (Civil Society for the Administration of Artist/Interpreters Rights),
