Music Industry Consultancy Services
I have spent a long time in the music industry. Not on the periphery of it, but inside it, as a performer and doing the work. Managing artists, negotiating deals, tracking royalties, sitting in rooms with labels, publishers, lawyers and working out what the right move really is. Before that, I spent years working in IT infrastructure at Channel 4, Channel 5, and the BBC. I was there during the first social media boom, when broadcasters were still working out what social media actually meant for their audiences, their rights, and their content pipelines.
The questions being asked inside those organisations back then was who owns this? Where does it go? And, What are we actually agreeing to? They say history has a way of repeating itself and, it turns out, those same questions are what the music industry is now dealing with, just at a scale nobody anticipated.
Forensic, Data Backed Advice and Guidance.
Why Choose IQ Artist Management’s Music Industry Consultancy?
I’ve always approached my work with deep research and academic frameworks to sit alongside and explain my practical experiences. In 2024 I formalised my approach and graduated from the University of Liverpool with a MA with Distinction in Music Industry Studies. I was also recommended for PhD study. I already had the how, I needed the why. The combination of the two is what makes the consultancy offer here genuinely different.
Most advice artists receive comes from people with something to sell, or, from people they know. A distributor, a publisher, a manager, a friend or a platform. All of them have a position and that position shapes what they tell you. I don’t. IQ Artist Management has no distribution deal to push, no publishing admin arrangement to benefit from, no financial relationship with any platform or organisation I might discuss. That independence is the foundation of everything on this page.
How The Consultancy Works, For You.
The consultancy work covers six specific areas. Royalty registration and uncollected income. Publishing structure and whether your registrations, splits, and agreements are set up correctly. Sync readiness and catalogue preparation. Management agreements and what they actually say before you sign them. AI training and data rights clauses in distribution and publishing deals. And hands-on royalty recovery for artists who know money is owed but don’t know how to find it.
Each engagement is fixed scope, clear deliverables, confirmed fee before anything begins.
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If you need someone who knows this industry properly and has no reason to tell you anything other than the truth, this is where to start.
