Murlyn Music was founded in 1997 by Anders Bagge. He had been inspired by
Denniz PoP's
Cheiron. Murlyn's big breakthrough came with the US boy band
98 Degrees. In 2001 Murlyn signed a marketing deal with
Universal Music Group for distributing the catalogue of songs materials produced by Murlyn Music worldwide. Colin Barlow, Jimmy Iovine and Lucian Grainge proposed building a company around Murlyn's songwriting where they would develop acts together. Unfortunately this relationship with Interscope and Universal came at a time when the era's pop trend was fading and singer-songwriter acts were starting to dominate. Murlyn wanted to focus more on singer-songwriters, but the level of time and development required was something that the major label was reluctant to support. In 2007 Bagge sold the publishing catalogue to Crosstown Songs in America. ==Songwriters / Producers==