Interviews – Page 11 – The Talking Fern

‘What we’re building at Downtown has never been done before.’

Andrew Bergman and Justin Kalifowitz on Downtown Music Holdings, present and future…
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‘I wake up every day and I don’t know what is going to happen. Life is never dull.’

MBW’s latest World’s Greatest Managers interview is with Stuart Camp, Ed Sheeran’s main man and the founder of Grumpy Old Management
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‘I would like to see the music industry develop a more positive relationship with technology companies.’

Mary Megan Peer discusses lessons learned across her career, how to run a successful publishing company, and a few big picture issues
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What do Blackstone’s billions mean for Merck Mercuriadis’ mission for songwriters?

The Hipgnosis founder joins Blackstone’s Qasim Abbas in MBW’s in-depth interview RE: the deal everyone’s talking about
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‘We’re very fortunate that someone decided to call this a job.’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. This time, we talk to Grammy and multiple Latin Grammy-winning Edgar Barrera.
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‘I’d like to see companies being proactive and not reactive about improving diversity.’

We chat with the newly named VP of Artist Marketing at Motown, Jamila Thomas, about diversity in music, keys to success in marketing and much more besides
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TikTok is evolving into a very different kind of music streaming giant.

Ole Obermann, TikTok’s Global Head of Music, discusses opportunities for artists… and a major new launch for indie acts
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‘100 die hard fans are just as powerful as somebody with 100 million followers on Instagram.’

Fave founder Jacquelle Amankonah Horton on the world of internet fandom and how her platform has attracted two of music’s biggest fan communities
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Hartwig Masuch thinks the music industry is putting too much of its money in the wrong places.

The BMG boss opens up on frontline vs catalog investment, and much more
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‘TikTok is running everything.’

Frank Harris on how Jason Derulo reinvented himself on TikTok – and the keys to building a billion dollar brand
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