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Hammer Musik GmbH and
Hammer Musik Ltd.


Hard Work - John Handy


Brighter Day - Sizzla

Artist website Hammer Musik's website

Artist website Reggae Now's website

World Domination Music Ltd is proud to represent the catalgiues of Hammer Musik Gmbh and Hammer Music Ltd in the UK & Ireland.

The Hammer Musik catalogues have over 1500 works of European origin

The catalogue of master recordings owned by Hammer Musik Gmbh through its labels Boulevard, Bogolusa, Kingston Records, and Third Venture Records. Is over 850 Master Recordings released over 85 Albums and numerous Singles.

1. The Original Copyrights – approximately 1500 titles, contains hit songs by Herbert Groenemeyer, whose "Best of" album was at no 1 in the GAS charts in December 2008/January 2009.

The Westside catalogue includes works by the members of Celebrate the Nun – now known as Scooter. Many recordings have cult status for example, one song brought in DM105,000 from Argentina. The song "Blame it on the samba" which was a hit in various territories accumulated EUR 40,000 royalties. The Westside label itself became bankrupt and one of the former owners purchased the master rights back Many items will be re-released and Westside have just concluded a deal with a substantial advance for downloads with The Orchard. Mechanical income will flow from this revenue stream.


Hammer has a large selection of reggae titles that achieve worldwide sales. Check out the Sizzla track on this page to hear the quality of the product.

2. Sub-Published copyrights – In excess of 10.000 titles:

In addition to the original works, Hammer has sub-publishing arrangements with a wide range of companies.

Some major sub-published titles include works by John Handy, Chris Cross (of KISS fame) and the Happy Valley catalogue. This contains various hits by Coxon Dodd including "Smile" which was a super-hit attaining Top 5 in most territories.

3. Sub-Publishing: The catalogue has existing sub-publishing arrangements as follows:

UK & Eire: World Domination Music Ltd

USA : Hammer Musik LLC

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan: Rock Publishing

Scandinavia: Bonnier

Benelux: Greenheart

Austria: Weinberger

Switerland: Suisa -direct

France: Metisse

Spain & Portugal: Cliipers

Italy: Evolution Music

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