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Management firms SBM and Sound Collective announce an alliance
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 29 May 2019
London-based management firms Stephen Budd Music and Sound Collective have announced a new partnership. While both companies manage record producers and songwriters, they say that they have complementary expertise – with SBM’s focus on producers and SC’s on writers – and that therefore an alliance makes sense. The plan is that they will jointly market their collective rosters to the industry.
Confirming the alliance, Budd said: “SBM’s strengths have always lain in the area of managing and promoting record producers, engineers and mixers. Whilst some our clients have also been hit songwriters, record production has always been our main focus. This partnership allows both SBM and SC into each other’s worlds. SC have a top-notch array of songwriters and – of course – the labels, managers and artists we speak to are a prime target market for that talent”.
Sound Collective’s Will Blake added: “We felt that a co-operation with SBM would allow us a wider range of possibilities for both companies. SBM have an incredible roster. This partnership will mean our respective rosters will be stronger and more diverse than ever and the collective reach from both companies contact bases will allow further growth for each other”.
Sound Collective already has a number of other partnerships in place, including a management and label services joint venture with Logan Media Entertainment, and a music publishing venture with Cooking Vinyl. It was via the latter that the alliance with SBM came about, Budd providing A&R consultancy to Cooking Vinyl on the label side.
