Music Industry Moves: Luke Mitzman and 100 Partner With Pulse Management, Mykki Blanco Signs With Transgressive

Luke Mitzman of 100 Management is partnering with Pulse Management, the companies have announced. Matt McNeal, who has been working as a publishing A&R consultant for parent company Pulse Music Group will also be joining the management team in a dual role for both the publishing and management divisions. (Pictured L-R (front): Ashley Calhoun, SVP, Pulse Music Group; Mitzman; Josh Abraham, co-CEO, PMG; (Back): Matt McNeal, A&R Consultant, PMG and Scott Cutler, co-CEO, PMG). Luke Mitzman founded 100 Management in 2015 after negotiating the move of former client Zane Lowe from the UK’s BBC Radio 1 to Apple Music. Since then, Mitzman has managed Usher; the DJ Netsky and, with Mike Caren, Grammy-winning producer Cirkut; and Disney’s Olivia Holt.

+ Rapper Mykki Blanco has signed with Transgressive Records and celebrated the partnership with a new single, “Free Ride,” a single co-produced by FaltyDL and Hudson Mohawke. Of the partnership, the label’s co-founder Toby L notes, We have been huge fans of Mykki Blanco since we first saw them slay our sister Visions Festival several years ago in London. Fiercely defiant and effortlessly genre-less, it is an absolute honour to welcome them to the Transgressive roster..” 

+ Paul Williams, former VP of comms for Sony/ATV Music Publishing and editor of Music Week, is back in his native U.K. and has joined the music-licensing company PPL in the newly-created role of senior corporate communications manager, reporting to Sarah Mitchell, Director of Membership and Communications.

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Crypto.com has named Joe Conyers III EVP, NFT Platform. In his new role, Conyers, who was most recently chief strategy officer of Downtown Music Holdings, will oversee the development of Crypto.com’s invite-only NFT platform, which will feature artists, athletes and sports leagues. While at Downtown, Conyers also co-founded the songwriter royalty collection service Songtrust.

+ Sally Dunstone has joined Primary Talent International as a Concerts agent effective immediately, it was announced by Matt Bates, director of Primary and ICM Partners Head of International/Europe. Dunstone will work alongside Bates and the Primary team in London. She joins after six years at X-ray Touring, where she worked with Jack Harlow, Rina Sawayama, Kelly Lee Owens and others. Primary Talent International joined forces with ICM Partners in March of 2020.

+ Photo Finish Records has signed singer/songwriter/producer Ross Copperman who will release his first solo artist project for the label in May 2021. Copperman has written and produced music for Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker and Keith Urban and wrote or cowrote Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s “Nobody But You,” Luke Bryan’s “What She Wants Tonight,” and Kelsea Ballerini’s Halsey duet, “The Other Girl.” Photo Finish, whose roster includes includes Shaed, 3OH!3 and Lakeview was founded in 2006 by Paradigm senior agent Matt Galle, who now runs the label with partner Mike Marquis and GM Michael Collin.

+ Universal Music Group and leading African streaming service Boomplay have expanded their license from seven to 47 countries across the continent, now including South Africa, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal. In 2018, UMG became the first major global music company to license music to the service, which currently stands at more than 50 million tracks and boasts the largest repertoire of local African content globally.

 

 

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