deadmau5 manager and other industry veterans launch The Circuit Group to acquire stakes in song catalogs

Music business veterans from artist administration corporations Seven20 and AYITA have teamed as much as set up The Circuit Group to accumulate a 50% stake in artists’ IP portfolios.

Based by Dean and Jessica Wilson of Seven20, and Brett Fischer, David Grey, and Harvey Tadman of AYITA, The Circuit Group additionally goals to collaborate with artists to forge alternatives in varied verticals throughout the music business, alongside typical artist administration.

“The engine on the heart of all the pieces within the music enterprise is the tune,” mentioned Dean Wilson, CEO and Co-founder of The Circuit Group and longtime supervisor of deadmau5. 

“At The Circuit Group, we’re constructing a community of companies round IP, placing artists’ creativity on the heart and fascinating and sustaining them over the long run. This ensures that artists proceed to share in each income stream out there to them and finally provides them extra management over their destinies than conventional enterprise fashions have supplied them.”

“At The Circuit Group, we’re constructing a community of companies round IP, placing artists’ creativity on the heart and fascinating and sustaining them over the long run.”

Dean Wilson, The Circuit Group

The Circuit Group says it’ll initially make acquisitions of as much as 50% of an artist’s tune catalog, offering speedy income for artists and making certain that they’re incentivized to work alongside the corporate in exploring extra alternatives surrounding their IP.

In response to The Circuit Group, via this “IP-centric strategy”, it’ll spend money on or forge strategic alliances with different entities to maximise the potential of artists’ songs in recorded music, publishing, merchandise, model partnerships, gaming, occasions, Web3, new music applied sciences, and extra.

The Circuit Group collectively manages grasp and publishing rights to over 3,000 songs, accumulating greater than 5 billion mixed streams and receiving 7 Grammy nominations. The roster contains distinguished names like Chris Lake, deadmau5, FISHER, HoneyLuv, NERO, and Ninajirachi.

In September 2021, The Circuit Group founders Brett Fischer, David Grey and Harvey Tadman joined the management team of Carl Stubner’s Shelter Music Group after the latter expanded their partnership with AYITA internationally.

“What’s being constructed at Circuit is thrilling as a result of we get to essentially push the bounds on every artist’s enterprise and get them the credit score they deserve.”

Brett Fischer, The Circuit Group

Brett Fischer mentioned: “I’ve labored with artists for practically 20 years. What’s being constructed at Circuit is thrilling as a result of we get to essentially push the bounds on every artist’s enterprise and get them the credit score they deserve. The corporate’s mission is superb. It provides us managers extra data to make the suitable strikes whereas constructing these manufacturers with a long run aim in thoughts.”

In the meantime, Seven20’s Dean Wilson grew to become a part of the Recording Academy’s diversity task force in 2018, becoming a member of different business veterans from ATO Data, Universal Music Group, ASCAP and Sony Music Entertainment, amongst others.

The Circuit Group operates from workplaces in Los Angeles, Miami, and London.

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