Mary Megan Peer and Ralph Peer II make Billboard's Power 100 List

In addition to continuing peermusic’s longtime advocacy for creators’ rights around the world, the Peers and other top company executives sit on the boards or forums of various countries’ collection management organizations on five continents. In 2022, peermusic cut a deal to serve as subpublisher for Hipgnosis for the rest of the world outside the United States, and as the globe began to shake off the pandemic, Mary Megan says the company’s creative team gave its songwriters “cross-cultural collaboration” opportunities that brought together peermusic writers in Sweden, Korea and Japan. The result: nine No. 1 singles in Korea, four in Japan, one in China and No. 1 iTunes tracks in 28 countries. In September, the company also conducted a songwriting camp — hosted by production duo SOS and writer Larry Gaaga — in Lagos, Nigeria, for 18 up-and-coming local writers, as well as a number of peermusic’s U.S. and U.K. songwriters.