Category archives: World’s Greatest Managers

‘Management is often about saying what the artist doesn’t want to hear, when they need to hear it.’

Benjamin Evans tells the story of turning 5 Seconds of Summer from Aussie unknowns to global superstars…
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‘Being straightforward and honest, not skirting around the issue, always yields the best results – and an understanding artist’

Adam Alpert on the rise of The Chainsmokers, the potential of Dove Cameron, hard work, good times and the future of the industry
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‘I think a lot of managers just go through the motions rather than come up with new ways to do things; they leave the burden of creativity on the artists, but business should be creative as well’

In Part Two of our feature on Crush Management we talk to Bob McLynn about the firm’s 20 years in the business and how managers need to be as creative as their artists
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‘If your management plan is to try and get a record to blow up on TikTok… you don’t have a plan.’

Crush Management founder Jonathan Daniel recalls bringing emo to the masses and reflects on 20 years at the top
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‘If you worry about what everybody else is doing, forget it – that’s not the key to success’

As part of MBW’s World’s Greatest Managers series, Deborah Kline discusses revitalising and empowering ‘under-serviced’ established artists
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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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‘Nobody will out-work me and nobody will out-care me; they won’t do it, they can’t do it.’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Managers series profiles the best artist managers in the global business. Here, we speak to Chris Kappy, the manager of country music’s biggest new star, Luke Combs. World’s Greatest Managers is supported by Centtrip, a spe…

Adam Leber nearly gave up on artist management. Now, with Lil Nas X and Miley Cyrus’ help, he’s smashing it.

“There has to be a reason you’re willing to base your life around an artist’s – because that’s what this job is.”
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