Amy Thomson leaving full-time function at Hipgnosis; Merck Mercuriadis pays tribute to ‘fearless’ exec, who will stay a marketing consultant to firm

Amy Thomson is exiting her function at Chief Catalog Officer at Hipgnosis Music Administration on the finish of September, MBW has confirmed – however will stay as a marketing consultant with the corporate.

Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis has paid tribute to Thomson and her contribution to the music agency, noting that “the quantity of hours and cautious consideration she put into each element [of her role] was monumental”.

Thomson joined Hipgnosis two years ago following a extremely profitable stint in artist administration, working with shoppers together with Swedish Home Mafia and DJ Snake. Thomson additionally labored as a advertising and marketing advisor to Kanye West throughout the artist’s Yeezus interval.

The founding father of ATM Administration, her achievements previous to Hipgnosis included taking Swedish Home Mafia to Madison Sq. Backyard, promoting out the venue in 4 minutes.

At Hipgnosis Music Administration, UK-based Thomson helped lead improvement of an in-house information platform for Hipgnosis’ acquired catalog, in addition to working intently with the agency’s sync and advertising and marketing capabilities.

Following the departure of Thomson from her full-time function, her earlier administration duties can be cut up between Ben Katovsky (COO & President, Hipgnosis Music Administration) and Ted Cockle (Chief Music Officer, Hipgnosis Music Administration).

In July, alongside Mercuriadis, Thomson announced a digital administration and sub-publishing partnerships with Sacem and peermusic. Thomson mentioned that, through this deal, “the true agenda of completely clear and optimum income takes an enormous leap within the route we promised”.

Paying tribute to Thomson at present, Mercuriadis mentioned: “I’m fairly positive Amy and I’ve lived quite a lot of lifetimes collectively. No matter how our careers have developed we’re at the beginning managers that share the identical songwriter/artist-first ideas.

“We’ve each chosen to evolve our careers past artist administration due to our ardour to carry change to this business so as to take the Songwriters and artists from the underside of the financial equation to the highest. We advocate and struggle on behalf of the songwriter and artist with easy logic on the core and with no regard for the politics of this business. We all know the distinction between proper and improper and we’re decisive.”

He added: “Amy was already probably the most profitable individuals in our business nicely earlier than she got here to Hipgnosis and the arrogance that got here with that has been a large asset for us as we took what was the normal publishing enterprise and reinvented it as Music Administration.

“To say Amy is fearless can be a large understatement so after I requested her to throw the entire guidelines out the window and redesign every thing as she noticed match it got here very naturally.”

Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis

“To say she is fearless can be a large understatement so after I requested her to throw the entire guidelines out the window and redesign every thing as she noticed match it got here very naturally. Despite the fact that she made it appear simple to make us the long run I do know the quantity of hours and cautious consideration she put into each element was monumental.

“Amy’s a drive of nature that simply put in 4 years of effort to our 2 plus years collectively and I can’t consider anybody else who might have accomplished what she’s accomplished. Put merely she helped exponentially speed up our development.

“I’m very grateful to her for believing in me and Hipgnosis and being such an essential contributor to our success. No different firm has invested the higher a part of $3 billion in amongst probably the most profitable and culturally essential songs of all time in 4 years. That wasn’t simple to do however it will have been unimaginable if Amy wasn’t holding the fort down.

“On account of our partnership with Blackstone we now have all of the capital we want and once more I’ve been in a position to make {that a} actuality as I knew I might depend on Amy to handle {the catalogue}. She equally nicely has helped to super-serve our public fund and make it an enormous success for each our shareholders and the unbelievable songwriters who’ve entrusted us with their iconic songs.

“I’m delighted that she is going to proceed to be a part of the Hipgnosis household by the brand new consulting association we’ve put in place. Over the past years regardless of the place I’m on this planet I do know I’m both going to get up or go to mattress with a flurry of emails from Amy and lengthy might that proceed.”

Amy Thomson appeared on a popular MBW Podcast earlier this 12 months by which she outlined the three issues she believed the fashionable music business wanted to repair – and why.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the UK-listed Hipgnosis entity that has spent over $2 billion on music rights to this point.

Hipgnosis Music Administration it the funding supervisor and ‘music administration’ accomplice of each Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Songs Capital.

The latter personal fund is backed by Blackstone and has this 12 months acquired catalogs from the likes of Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, and the Leonard Cohen property.Music Enterprise Worldwide