Membership of the Music Producers Guild (UK)
There are three levels of membership of the MPG.
Full Membership (£120 per year) - this is open to recording industry professionals (see the eligibility conditions below) and provides a substantial number of membership benefits.
Associate Membership - (£55 per year) is available to anyone, without restriction, at whatever level of recording activity. We welcome those who are starting out on a career in recording music.
Basic Membership - (FREE) is available to anyone. It provides access to the website and email notifications, but none of the other benefits afforded to Full and Associate Members.
MPG Benefits |
Full Members |
Associate Members |
Basic Members |
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Access to Members Only sections of the website |
YES | YES | YES |
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| Professional benefits, e.g legal advice, accountancy, equipment rental, membership of other organisations | YES | no | no | |
| Free entry to MPG events (excluding the MPG Awards) |
YES | 50% discount | no | |
| Special rates for tickets for the MPG Awards |
YES | no | no | |
| Substantial discounts on pro-audio hardware and software |
YES | some | no | |
| 50% discount on Individual Membership of APRS |
YES | no | no | |
| Voting privileges for the MPG Awards |
YES | no | no | |
| Searchable entry in the Members Directory | YES | with paid upgrade | no | |
| Free half-hour consultation with MPG lawyer |
YES | no | no | |
| Discounted entry to events organised by other music industry organisations | YES | some | no | |
| Receive news about events, benefits, MPG developments via email | YES | YES | YES | |
Access to public pages on the MPG website | YES | YES | YES | |
| Invitations to industry product development and pre-launch demos | YES | no | no | |
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Associate Members can also choose to purchase either or both of these add-on options:
- Searchable entry in the Members Directory (for £25 per year).
- MPG Event “season ticket”, which provides one year’s free entry to all MPG events, except the MPG Awards (£25 per year).
Discounts for longer term membership:
Members can opt for extended membership periods of 2 or 3 years, and receive an appropriate subscription discount:
- Full Membership: 2 years £215, 3 years £305 (savings of £25 and £55, respectively)
- Associate Membership: 2 years £99, 3 years £140 (savings of £11 and £25, respectively)
Please note: these longer-term membership subscriptions are not available to those members of APRS who are claiming the 50% MPG discount.
Completion of the MPG Full Member application procedure constitutes an agreement that the applicant has not accepted or agreed to accept any external benefit with regard to their voting powers in all aspects of the MPG Awards process.
Eligibility conditions for Full Membership of the MPG:
To qualify for Full Member status, you must have a credit for production, engineering, mixing, re-mixing or mastering on 6 commercially released tracks. This can either be 6 single tracks, 6 tracks on one album or EP, or 6 tracks across multiple albums or EPs. All recognized formats are acceptable, CD, vinyl, digital download, DVD and even cassette! These tracks must have been commercially available via traditional outlets, i.e. digital download from recognized online music retail sites, record shops, mail order. (Please note – non-recognized commercial sales directly by the artist at live venues do not qualify, similarly neither do downloads from personal sites such as Soundcloud and MySpace).
Alternatively, if you work in film or television and have six credits for production, engineering, or mixing music, which has been commercially released in film or broadcast on television, you are also eligible for full membership.
After completing the registration form, you will be asked to validate your credits. You can do this by supplying links to any of these websites:
www.discogs.com
www.allmusic.com
www.albumcredits.com
Supplying additional links to the commercial availability of the tracks is much appreciated.
Alternatively you may send scans of bar-coded album artwork displaying your credits, or signed agreements. Please email them to membership@mpg.org.uk (and please indicate this on the submission form if that’s what you will be doing).
If you feel that you should qualify to become a Full Member, but these conditions would prevent you from doing so, then please provide an account of your activities, and why you feel that you are being unfairly excluded. All reasonable requests will be considered.
