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On the 28th April 2026, BMG and Concord announced plans to merge into a single company. The new combined entity, will be majority owned by Bertelsmann at roughly 67% with Great Mountain Partners holding the remaining 33%. Current projected revenues of…
51 German TV placements. Several tracks synced on major TV shows like Love Island, I’m a Celebrity Germany, The Bachelor, and Galileo. More than 2K radio plays and a decade of touring Germany in venues up to 7,000 capacity. All sounds…
Last week, an artist I work with was pretty pleased about the news. The Government had dropped the proposal, the music industry had pushed back and won. “So AI can’t use my music without permission now, right?” The honest answer is…
Warner and Universal signed AI licensing deals with Suno and Udio 11 weeks ago. In that time, I’ve watched independent artists split into three camps: those panicking, those ignoring it completely, and those trying to figure out how to compete. We…
During the last 30 years of managing artists, I’ve lost count of the number of publishing contracts I’ve reviewed. The times might change but the patterns throughout them have all remained remarkably consistent: 70-80% contain at least one clause that costs…
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