Concord In The News

John Minch transitions to songwriter advocacy role at Concord, Jeff Van Driel promoted to GM, International Operations

Minch to step back from day-to-day managing of international publishing operations

iHeartMedia, The Orchard, and Concord all invested in a seven-figure funding round for Gimme Radio. Now it’s shutting down after ‘being unable to raise the financing needed’ (update)

Gimme Radio ran two services – Gimme Metal for heavy metal fans and Gimme Country for country/Americana fans

Downtown to make layoffs across various divisions (report)

Unspecified number of roles will be affected across CD Baby, Downtown Music Publishing, Songtrust and Downtown Music Holdings divisions

After partnering with Warner last year, pre-cleared music for games platform STYNGR inks licensing deal with ICE Services

STYNGR offers pre-cleared music for games and the metaverse

Is the slowdown in big-money music catalog deals officially over?

Moves from Hipgnosis, Shamrock, Primary Wave, and a big brewing Michael Jackson story have all pumped excitement into 2023's M&A narrative

Amazon Music strikes playlist partnership with generative AI music company Endel

Endel raised $15m in a series B funding round last year

After investing $125m over the past year, Cutting Edge secures another $100m to buy film and TV music rights

The initial $125m round 'has been fully deployed' according to the company

Concord has a new CEO, as Bob Valentine succeeds Scott Pascucci in management transition

News follows a similar shake-up at BMG