Jeannette Perez, newly named President and COO at Kobalt, discusses lessons learned in her career, the evolution of the independent publishing sector and what she’d change about the music industry and why.
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Category archives: Interviews
‘The idea of managing Elton before I got sober would have been terrifying.’
Elton John’s manager, David Furnish, explains how the partnership works and how he helped introduce the superstar to an even wider audience…
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‘My roots always lie in creating sounds and sonics from the ground up.’
The LA-based producer Tearce Kizzo talks about how jamming sessions in Stephen Colbert’s dressing room inspired one of 2021’s biggest albums
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‘It is a Herculean task, managing an artist in 2021.’
Matt Colon, Global President of Music at YM&U tells MBW about the firm’s expansion plans, success with NFTs, and above all, the challenges of being an artist manager in 2021…
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‘There’s trap doors everywhere in this game. The secret is being able to navigate them.’
John Dawkins was recently upped to Managing Director of Various Artists, following Platinum-selling success with Tom Grennan. Here, he tells us his story and gives his views on the modern UK business…
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Primary Wave has over $1 billion to spend on music rights… and it’s not wasting any time
Primary Wave boss Larry Mestel answers MBW’s end-of-2021 questions
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‘Competition is good, it drives us and makes us all want to be better.’
Grammy-winning songwriter Hillary Lindsey discusses her scrapped artist career, songwriting technique, imposter syndrome and the streaming remuneration debate.
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‘Copyright-free music is seen as poor quality, cheap and mass market. Our goal is to remove that stigma.’
The idea of releasing music that has no copyright attached to it would probably seem absurd to most people working in the music industry. NoCopyrightSounds (NCS) would disagree…
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Lucas Keller: My Manifesto
Lucas Keller, Milk & Honey founder and songwriter advocate, lists the five things he wants to change about the music business… in typically forthright fashion
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‘There are still a lot of artists that deserve to live off their music. I would like it to happen faster.’
MBW interviews Sylvain Delange, Managing Director of Believe Asia Pacific, about the company’s strategy in the Asia Pacific region…
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