Ron Perry, who runs Columbia Records, one of the largest record labels in the world, recently went on record with some remarkable statements. Earlier this year, he told Billboard that TikTok “made things go faster for a small period of time”…
About two years ago an artist came to me for consultancy about her career situation. She had signed a management deal eighteen months earlier with someone who had a genuinely good contacts list and probably genuinely good intentions. Labels, booking agents,…
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…
In January 2026, a story appeared on my timeline that stopped me in my tracks. DistroKid, the music distribution platform, was apparently seriously exploring a sale. The figure being quoted is, as I write this, sitting at around $2 billion, with…
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