The Bicycle Music Company
Independent
music publisher, record label and rights manager is founded in 1974 in the
USA, California.
The Bicycle Music Company was a music publishing company founded
independently, and after growing for a number of years was merged with
Concord Music Group in 2015. As of 2010, it owned or administered over 12,000
works from songwriters.
Concord Music Publishing is a global, full-service, independent music
publisher offering bespoke creative support from its a&r, synchronization
and marketing teams and diligent administration by its in-house copyright,
licensing, income tracking and royalty departments.
Based in Nashville with offices in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne,
Miami and New York, Concord Music Publishing owns or administers more than
800,000 copyrighted musical works. Spanning nearly two centuries of song,
through a vast array of genres and territories, Concord represents the
world’s most celebrated songwriters, composers and lyricists.
The Bicycle Music Company was founded by music publishing executive David
Rosner, veteran of the CBS publishing division April/Blackwood Music and
longtime publishing representative to singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. One of
the company's early international hits was “Let Your Love Flow,” written by
Neil Diamond's guitar technician, Larry E. Williams. Later, Rosner's son,
Jonathan, joined Bicycle Music and expanded the company's contemporary writer
relationships.
In 2005, Rosner sold Bicycle Music to Clear Channel Entertainment and the
latter's newly formed music rights acquisition company Sound Investors, LLC,
owned by Clear Channel Entertainment executive Stephen Smith.
A year later, Sound Investors contributed its interest in Bicycle to a new
rights management partnership with Wood Creek Capital Management. By this
time, Bicycle oversaw the publishing concerns of a catalog including Marvin
Hamlisch, Glen Ballard (recorded by Michael Jackson and Alanis Morissette),
and many others.
By 2010, Bicycle Music had purchased additional song catalogs including
artists Cyndi Lauper, Tammy Wynette, Ozomatli, Marshall Goodman (co-wrote for
Sublime and Long Beach All-Stars), Dwight Yoakam, Montell Jordan, and more.
In April 2010, Bicycle acquired part of the TVT Records catalogue, including
Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails
In October 2013, The Bicycle Music Company acquired the catalogue of
Wind-Up Records and partnered with Concord Music Group to distribute the
catalogue.
Bicycle Music had completed over 100 publishing and master recording
catalog deals by 2015.
The company partners with artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Eminem, Kid
Rock, Christina Aguilera, Kat Edmonson, Demi Lovato, Evanescence, Alanis
Morissette, Ruben Studdard, The Pharcyde.
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