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
Spike (club edition)Elvis CostelloCD15
D 100841[none]
Lyle Lovett and His Large BandLyle LovettCD12
D 100932[none]
Sonic Temple (club edition)The CultCD11
D 101015[none]
Like a Prayer (BMG club edition)MadonnaCD11
D 101029[none]
Skid Row (BMG Music Service)Skid RowCD11
D 101038[none]
Blue MurderBlue MurderCD9
D 101050[none]
ClassicsTriumphCD11
D 101105[none]
DoolittlePixiesCD15
D 101108[none]
One Thing Leads to Another: Greatest Hits (BMG club edition)The FixxCD12
D 101250[none]
Paul’s BoutiqueBeastie BoysCD15
D 102471
Piano Trios, Hob. XV: 24, 25, 26 & 27, including "Gypsy Trio"Joseph HaydnCD12
D 105573[none]
Big Band BashVarious ArtistsCD21
D 110458
Street Life: 20 Great Hits (club edition)Bryan Ferry / Roxy MusicCD20
D 110490[none]
Brave and CrazyMelissa EtheridgeCD10
D 110503[none]
Wild Planet (club edition)The B‐52’sCD9
D 110540[none]
Keep on Movin'Soul II SoulCD10
D 114823[none]
Klavierkonzert no. 1 (Club Edition)Tschaikowsky; Yevgeny Kissin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von KarajanCD8
D 125261[none]
Alannah MylesAlannah MylesCD10
D 130045[none]
Mozart: Jagd-Quartett, Dissonanzen-Quartet / Haydn: Kaiser-Quartett (BMG club edition)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn; Emerson String QuartetCD12
D 130506[none]
Yellow Moon (club edition)The Neville BrothersCD12
D 144113[none]
Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful WorldJohnny Clegg and SavukaCD11
D 144564[none]
The Segovia Collection, Volume 5: The Legendary Andrés Segovia: Five Centuries of the Spanish GuitarAndrés SegoviaCD26
D 154277[none]
Nick of Time (BMG club edition)Bonnie RaittCD11
D 154410[none]
Not Fakin’ ItMichael MonroeCD10
D 160017[none]
The Iron Man (club edition)Pete TownshendCD12
D 161152[none]
The MiracleQueenCD13
D 162262[none]
Greatest Hits 1982-1989 (Club Edition)ChicagoCD12
D 163363[none]
Best of Rockers ’n’ BalladsScorpionsCD12
D 163492[none]
Greatest Hits (BMG club edition)Night RangerCD12
D 171989[none]
Greatest Hits, Volume IBarry ManilowCD10
D 172863[none]
Runaway Horses (club edition)Belinda CarlisleCD10
  • -1989
D 173667[none]
Heart Shaped WorldChris IsaakCD11
D 173735[none]
Rock IslandJethro TullCD10
D 173901[none]
Taking On the WorldGunCD10
D 182473[none]
The Firebird (1910) • Scherzo A La Russe • Four StudiesIgor Stravinsky / Simon RattleCD13
D 193834[none]
Symphonie No. 3Mahler; New York Choral Artists, Brooklyn Boys Chorus, Christa Ludwig, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein2×CD17 + 9
D 205585028942732827
Symphonie no. 8Anton Bruckner; Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan2×CD2 + 2
D 215471[none]
StorytellerRod Stewart4×CD17 + 16 + 15 + 16
D 217011[none]
21 Country, Rock & Love Songs of the 50's & 60's, Volume 1 (BMG club version)Various ArtistsCD21
D-100561[none]
21 Country, Rock & Love Songs of the 50's & 60's, Volume 2Various ArtistsCD21
D-100563[none]
The Wanderer: 18 Original Hit Recordings by Dion and Dion and the Belmonts 1958-1963Dion & The BelmontsCD18
D-100999
Pump Up the Jam: The AlbumTechnotronicCD12
D-134781[none]
The Honey TangleThe Adult NetCD14
D-154331
A Black and White Night: Live (BMG club edition)Roy Orbison and FriendsCD16
D-164495[none]
A Show of HandsRushCD15
D-200608[none]
Lute Suites / Partita No. 1 / Chaconne (BMG club edition)Johann Sebastian Bach; Eduardo Fernández2×CD22 + 11
D-205582[none]
Labour of Love (BMG club edition)UB40CD10
D100677[none]
...Twice ShyGreat WhiteCD9
D101100[none]
Repeat OffenderRichard MarxCD11
D101118[none]
16 Most Requested Songs (club, remaster)Percy FaithCD16
D111169[none]
Hear & NowBilly SquierCD10
D114735[none]
Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphaleBerlioz; The Wallace Collection, John WallaceCD10
D115623
TouchSarah McLachlanCD10
D121559[none]
Another Side of Bob Dylan (BMG Club edition)Bob DylanCD11
D122576[none]
Oh MercyBob DylanCD10
D122583
Lovelines (BMG club edition)CarpentersCD12
D124763[none]
The Sun Years (club edition)Roy OrbisonCD20
D130965[none]
Two Highways (BMG club edition)Alison Krauss & Union StationCD12
D171003[none]
Decade (BMG club edition)Duran DuranCD14
D173573[none]
The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack, BMG music club release)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanCD20
D190113[none]
Metal Massacre TenVarious ArtistsCD10
  • US1990-02-20
D 207373-9[none]
70 Ounces of GoldVarious ArtistsCD27
  • US1990-03-01
D 123636[none]
Join TogetherThe Who2×CD21 + 13
  • US1990-03-20
D 200538076731950129
Wilson Phillips (BMG club edition)Wilson PhillipsCD10
  • US1990-03-20
D-100726[none]
Tennessee Woman (Club Edition)Tanya TuckerCD10
  • US1990-04-17
D 154399[none]
Arias (Record-club release)Tchaikovsky, Verdi; Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valéry GergievCD11
  • US1990-05-16
D-105594028947846147
I’ve Got That Old Feeling (BMG club edition)Alison KraussCD12
  • US1990-07-01
D171949[none]
Rev It UpVixenCD11
D 154615[none]
Rumor Has It (BMG club edition)RebaCD10
  • US1990-08-17
D144609[none]
No FencesGarth BrooksCD10
  • US1990-08-27
D 173266[none]
Unison (BMG club edition)Céline DionCD10
  • US1990-09-11
D110572[none]
Rust in PeaceMegadethCD9
  • US1990-09-21
[none]
Heartattack and VineTom WaitsCD9
  • US1990-10-12
D 142919[none]
The Rhythm of the SaintsPaul SimonCD10
  • US1990-10-16
D110455[none]
The Dream of the Blue Turtles (club edition)StingCD10
  • US1990-10-17
D150266[none]
Greatest Hits (Club Edition)George StraitCD10
  • US1990-10-17
D161654[none]
Sweet Baby James (BMG Club Edition)James TaylorCD11
  • US1990-10-25
D 101249[none]
Alabama BoundLeadbellyCD16
  • US1990-10-25
D 102234[none]
The Very Best of The Everly Brothers (BMG club edition)The Everly BrothersCD12
  • US1990-10-25
D103826[none]
Crazy WorldScorpionsCD11
  • US1990-11-06
D-114795
This Is Spinal TapSpın̈al TapCD11
  • US1990-12-29
D 134691042281784620
Fear of MusicTalking HeadsCD11
101413075992742825
Bona Drag (club edition)MorrisseyCD14
D 100578[none]
Live at Leeds (club edition)The WhoCD6
D 101253[none]
Uprising (BMG music club release)Bob Marley & The WailersCD10
D 101682042284621120
No Vacancy: The Best of the MotelsThe MotelsCD19
D 101803[none]
Made in Japan (BMG Direct)Deep PurpleCD7
D 101907[none]
Paul SimonPaul SimonCD11
D 102064[none]
The Madcap LaughsSyd BarrettCD13
D 102644[none]
Rock of the Westies (BMG club edition)Elton JohnCD9
D 103082[none]
Days of Open HandSuzanne VegaCD11
D 103115[none]
Ritual de lo habitual (cluib edition)Jane’s AddictionCD9
D 110020[none]
Melrose (club edition)Tangerine DreamCD9
D 110724[none]
Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats (BMG club edition)Peter GabrielCD16
D 111089[none]
Born to Sing (BMG club edition)En VogueCD12
D 114187[none]
Van HalenVan HalenCD11
D 114620
FloodThey Might Be GiantsCD19
D 114772[none]
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 / Borodin: String Quartet No. 2Tchaikovsky, Borodin; Emerson String QuartetCD8
D 115030[none]
Have You Seen Me Lately?Carly SimonCD11
D 120912[none]
WarU2CD10
D 124619[none]