Warner Music Group — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Warner Music Group
New York
63 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Feb 20, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$7.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$580K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: warner-music-group.
$200K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
CPT
16 filings
$877K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
14 filings
$300K on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$431K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$340K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$246K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$111K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4789110th CongressPerformance Rights Act10 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2500110th CongressPerformance Rights Act10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1319111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S.Con.Res. 14111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2060110th CongressInternet Radio Equality Act9 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4791110th CongressFederal Agency Data Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2317110th CongressIntellectual Property Enforcement Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5353110th CongressInternet Freedom Preservation Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5889110th CongressOrphan Works Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Rhod ShawAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)10 filingsthrough 2011
Jared WeaverAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)5 filingsthrough 2011
Joyce BrayboyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melvin Watt5 filingsthrough 2009
Kristin SmithAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: legislative assistant, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)4 filingsthrough 2008
Ben Barnes Group -Warner Music Group1 filingthrough 2012
Brownstein Hyatt -Warner Music Group1 filingthrough 2012
Glover Park Group -Warner Music Group1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
