Symphonic Partners With Songtrust

Independent music distributor Symphonic has partnered with Songtrust to expand its publishing services. Songtrust represents more than 150,000 songwriters and more than 20,000 publishers. The new partnership will benefit Symphonic clients who choose their Publishing Administration service which charges 15% of the publisher’s share of royalties. “Symphonic is the premier…

CD Baby, AVL Digital Acquired By Downtown Music

Downtown Music Holdings has acquired AVL Digital Group and its portfolio of music distribution, rights management and artist services businesses, including CD Baby, AdRev, DashGo and Soundrop. DMH is the company behind Downtown Music Publishing and Songtrust. The deal is estimated to be worth $200 million. In 2018, CD Baby…

‘Market dominance is unhealthy for consumers and rightsholders’

Songtrust’s Molly Neuman discusses the state of the publishing sector, direct deals and gender parity in music
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Songtrust appoints Co-Founder Joe Conyers III as Chief Strategy Officer

He has been General Manager for the last eight years
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Songtrust taps AMRA’s Dewayne Ector to lead new London-based Global Society Relations department

Former AMRA Head of International to lead department
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Songtrust hires Anna Bond as Director of Business Development, North America

Royalty collection platform Songtrust has appointed Anna Bond as Director of Business Development, North America. Bond has spent fifteen years in the music industry, and is the former US Rough Trade Records General Manager. Her remit in the new role wi…

Songtrust expands into Atlanta, Los Angeles and Nashville with new hires

Alex Gershwin, Breanna Harper and Carli Gonderinger join team
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CD Baby now publishes over a million songs – and says it’s ‘helping solve the industry’s publishing problem one songwriter at a time’

US-based company first moved into publishing space five years ago
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Downtown’s Songtrust signs pan-EU licensing agreement with ICE Services

Songtrust manages over 1m copyrights for clients and recently expanded into Europe
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