Mushroom Music has entered a sub-publishing agreement with peermusic that will see the independent publisher represent its catalog across the US, Canada and Latin America, excluding Brazil.<\/p>\n
The deal gives peermusic<\/b> rights to handle copyright registration, royalty collection, sync licensing and creative opportunities for Mushroom’s roster of Australian and New Zealand songwriters.<\/p>\n
The arrangement marks Mushroom’s strategy to expand its presence in the Americas, it said in a press release on Tuesday (November 18).<\/p>\n
The partnership comes over a year after Australia\u2019s Mushroom Group <\/b>launched<\/a> a\u00a0unified \u2018Mushroom Music\u2019 <\/b>banner<\/a> that consolidated the group\u2019s recording, publishing, and neighbouring rights divisions.<\/p>\n Mushroom Group described the consolidation last year as \u201cthe most significant change\u201d to its structure in more than two decades.<\/p>\n Set up in 1972 by Mushroom Group CEO Matt Gudinski<\/b>\u2019s late father \u2013 legendary music entrepreneur Michael Gudinski<\/b> \u2013 the Australia-headquartered independent music giant has long operated across recorded music, publishing, touring and events, merchandising, booking agencies, film and television production, talent management, venues, creative services and brand partnerships.<\/p>\n Mushroom Music\u2019s catalog includes works by Kylie Minogue, Tobiahs, Amy Shark, Budjerah, Emily Wurramara, Bliss n Eso, Mia Wray, Hunters & Collectors, The Angels, Gordi, Middle Kids, Dan Sultan, Skyhooks, Yothu Yindi <\/b>and Archie Roach.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cMushroom Music has always been fiercely committed to protecting and elevating our songwriters, so we\u2019re thrilled to partner with a like-minded, family-owned company that understands the value of genuine, hands-on relationships and the importance of investing in songwriters and their music.\u201d<\/p>\n Linda Bosidis<\/b>, Mushroom Music<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, peermusic<\/b> operates 39 offices across 32 countries and holds more than one million titles spanning country, blues, jazz, pop, Latin and rock genres.<\/p>\n Commenting on the partnership, Linda Bosidis<\/b>, co-CEO at Mushroom Music, said: \u201cWe both share a deep independent spirit and a passion for supporting songwriters with integrity, care and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMushroom Music has always been fiercely committed to protecting and elevating our songwriters, so we\u2019re thrilled to partner with a like-minded, family-owned company that understands the value of genuine, hands-on relationships and the importance of investing in songwriters and their music.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLinda and her team have built an incredible independent roster and we\u2019re thrilled to be representing the talented writers and artists of Mushroom Music in the Americas.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary Megan Peer, Peermusic<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mary Megan Peer<\/b>, CEO of peermusic, added: \u201cLinda and her team have built an incredible independent roster and we\u2019re thrilled to be representing the talented writers and artists of Mushroom Music in the Americas.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis deal allows us to work with partners we greatly respect by leveraging our local creative, synch and administrative teams for the benefit of Mushroom Music\u2019s roster. We plan to increase opportunities and earnings for their music creators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" peermusic will handle copyright registration, royalty collection, sync licensing and creative opportunities for Mushroom’s roster of songwriters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":245166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1280,3588,1786],"class_list":["post-245165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mushroom-group","tag-mushroom-music","tag-peermusic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245172,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245165\/revisions\/245172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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