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synch team and, of course, the strength and depth of our catalogue. We are also enjoying unprecedented success in the compilation stage show area with shows like The Bodyguard, Dirty Dancing, Million Dollar Quartet and Save The Last Dance for Me proving hugely successful.
What are you looking forward to in the three months ahead? On a business level it will be interesting to see how the joint Society initiatives Delta and Zeta develop in terms of much-needed consolidation and streamlining of operations and databases which are currently duplicated many times over across Europe.
What for you is currently the biggest challenge facing the indie publishing sector? For independent and major publishers alike the key challenge is ensuring that the new and exciting business models emerging into the market place do so with a full understanding of the value of music and with realistic licensing frameworks in place, giving due recompense to the writers and creators.
IMAGEM MUSIC John Minch, CEO
What have been the highlights for Imagem in the last quarter? All good. Classical has benefitted from the Benjamin
Britten centenary, we won a Tony award for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella on Broadway and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky has broken records all around the world. Synch was looking a bit sick but we’ve just had a scorching month topped off with a worldwide ad for Chrysler.
Which areas of your business are doing particularly well and why? We’ve changed the pop publishing team completely and we are really seeing the results. We wanted to be the cool indie publisher that tries harder, and we are getting there. We’ve had great albums from Vampire Weekend and 30 Seconds to Mars. Steve Robson keeps hitting the button with Olly Murs and Eliza Dolittle. We’ve also launched a musical theatre licensing unit, Rodgers & Hammerstein Europe, and that’s doing really well. It’s a four-man team based in London but they travel all over Europe and have licensed shows in Jordan, Russia, Israel. It’s managed by Vivien Goodwin who joined us from Samuel French.
What are you looking forward to in the three months ahead? Bedding in the Pink Floyd business, which is a worldwide co-ordinated effort. We’re excited for the second Daft Punk single. Mark Ronson has an album coming out. Also launching our film and TV production publishing initiative. More to come.
What for you is currently the biggest challenge facing the indie publishing sector? Getting digital right for indie publishers. We’ve been doing a lot of work on this and we hope to be able to go public about it all in the autumn. It’s not easy, but the money is beginning to flow properly now and the more recalcitrant overseas collecting societies are co-operating properly. There’s a big
threat to the PRO network from the very large publishers which we all need to watch and react to. Not just in digital but in broadcast licences too. We have to be competitive with the bigger beasts. And there are still lunatic deals being done by publishers chasing volume and market share. We don’t want to be playing signing roulette - not unless we are absolutely sure what we are doing. But, broadly speaking, people like to deal with a flexible and quite small responsive unit. We’ll be fine!
NOTTING HILL MUSIC
What have been the highlights for NHM in the last quarter? John Saunderson, Head of A&R (pictured): The Group enters the closing half of 2013
in rude health with long-term signing Ayah Marar in the Top 20 and on the A-list at Radio One as the co-writer and featured singer on the Calvin Harris single Thinking About You. This will be followed by the release of her own single Beg, Borrow Steal in the Autumn on NHM’s sister label, Transmission Recordings. Also on the Radio 1 playlist is Dominique Young Unique’s collaboration with DJ Fresh and Diplo, Earthquake, which should certainly whet the appetite for Dominique’s solo debut on Epic, due later in the year. Internationally, the company is enjoying a Top 10 single in Germany with Fergie’s A Little Party from The Great Gatsby soundtrack as well as a succession of smash hit singles in Japan with Kat- Tun, BoA and A.I over the past six weeks. This success in the Far East is certain to continue following the company’s recent songwriting camps in Tokyo and Seoul. Notting Hill are also bringing some of their best US songwriters over to attend a camp organised by Waterfall in Oslo and Notting Hill’s own camp in London in conjunction with NHM-administered publisher Tileyard Music.
What are you looking forward to in the three months ahead? It’s been a busy and prosperous few months in the NHM sync department with major placements in film, trailers, TV, games and corporate – in the UK and abroad. “These are exciting times for Notting Hill and sync,” says Leopold Whiteley, Head of Creative at NHM. “We are putting in place a new music delivery system which will make it easier to reach out to all our fantastic contacts in all corners of the globe. We are also upping our presence in the production music world with a very interesting hook-up which will be announced very soon…”
What for you is currently the biggest challenge facing the indie publishing sector? Notting Hill Chairman Andy McQueen: “We are excited by the way the company is adapting itself to the ever-changing music business and embracing the new industry ecosystem as a series of opportunities rather than the end of the world as we know it. There are challenges ahead, principally in the low royalty rates currently paid by streaming services to publishers, but on the whole we feel that the format may well be the future. The encouraging figures from the Scandinavian territories would indicate that streaming is worthy of support rather than obstruction.”
BUCKS MUSIC Simon Platz, MD
What have been the highlights for Bucks in the last quarter? We have had chart and radio successes with Rudimental,
Waiting All Night (Jonny Harris); Sneakbo, Ring A Ling (James Grant, Darius Ellington Forde); David Guetta ft. Neyo, Play Hard (Giorgio Tuinfort); and Afrojack feat. Chris Brown, As Your Friend (Nick Van De Wall) . We also have publishing interests in high-charting albums from Calvin Harris, Rudimental, Kanye West, KT Tunstall and The Rolling Stones. Ed Sheeran’s + LP has gone six-times Platinum, featuring co-writes from BDi writers Jake Gosling and Amy Wadge. Meanwhile, we’ve had sync/licensing success
(Bucks writers in brackets) with: Mika, Underwater – Swatch ad (Paul Steel); Professor Green, Avalon – Relentless ad (Stephen Manderson); John Paul Young, Love Is In The Air – Furniture Village ad (Harry Vanda and George Young); Youth Lagoon, July – Robinsons drinks ad (Trevor Powers); Can, Halleluwah – Film: The Bling Ring (Can); Girls Aloud, Something Kinda Oooh – Typhoo ad (Jody Lei, Tegeler, Fuldner, Belina); Erland Cooper, Difference – Marie Curie ad (Erland Cooper); Voluntary Butler Scheme, Tabasco Sole – Google online ad (Rob Jones). We’ve also seen David Bowie’s Space Oddity covered on Youtube by Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Ageny spawning 17 million Youtube hits - the first ever license request from space.
Which areas of your business are doing particularly well and why? Between chart success, sync, licensing, and new signings the last three months have all been fruitful. We have also teamed up with Fierca Panda and Club Fandango to add to our ever growing independent network of label partners, as well as concluding deals with ex-Infadels front man Bnann, TOY, Caspa, Owiny Sigoma Band, Alex ‘Cores’ Hayes and Sam McCarthy. Over the next three months we are looking forward to key single releases that our writers have written including: Chloe Howl (No Strings), Steve Hill & Technikal (Example ‘All The Wrong Places), Jonny Harris (Rudimental ft. Foxes ‘Right Here’), Emi Green (Little Nikki ‘Little Nikki Says’), a new EP from Sway (featuring collaborations with Ed Sheeran and KSI), a debut album release from Mikill Pane (Blame Miss Barclay) and the new Babyshambles album ‘Sequel To The Prequel’. We will also be holding another songcamp bringing around 40 writers together for a week of solid writing as well as launching our online original content video channel, CRT:YRD Sessions. BDi Music writer Jake Gosling will have a cut on the new Birdy album too, track title: Home, which is expected for release on September 23.
What for you is currently the biggest challenge facing the indie publishing sector? The licensing and collection of digital rights and income. The focus must now be on the expansion of IMPEL (Independent Music Publishers Pan European Licensing) vehicle to make it a credible force.
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