Downtown Music Studios
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| Industry | Music Publishing |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Justin Kalifowitz |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
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| Services | Music rights management |
| Divisions | Downtown Music Publishing Downtown Music Studios Songtrust Neighbouring Rights |
| Website | www |
Downtown is a global independent rights management and music services company. Based in New York City, it is composed of four divisions: Downtown Music Publishing, Songtrust, Downtown Music Studios, and Neighbouring Rights. In addition to its New York headquarters, Downtown has offices in Nashville, Los Angeles, London, and Amsterdam.
Downtown Music Publishing owns and/or administers works by songwriter-artists including The Beatles, Hans Zimmer, Bruce Springsteen, Motley Crue, and One Direction and represents publishing catalogs such as Cy Coleman's Notable Music Co. Inc. (US), Edizioni Curci (Italy), Kassner Music (UK) and Budde Music (Germany). Through Songtrust, it provides global royalty collection from more than 90 countries and 20,000 unique income sources worldwide. It also operates Downtown Music Studios, a recording facility in Soho, New York.
Downtown was founded as Downtown Music Publishing in 2007 by Justin Kalifowitz in New York. The business model was developed to address the consolidation of the music publishing industry as well as the new technologies which impacted songwriters and copyright holder. Downtown Music Studios opened in 2008. In 2011, Downtown formally launched Songtrust as a business unit, extending the company's royalty collection platform capabilities beyond the parent publishing company. Neighboring Rights was established in 2016.
In 2013, Downtown expanded its offices to Los Angeles. In early 2014, the company expanded to Nashville and later that year founded Downtown Music Benelux. Based in Amsterdam, Downtown Music Benelux was established in collaboration with Hot Streak Music, a division of Cloud 9 Music. In 2015, following the acquisition of the London-based music publisher Eagle-i Music, Downtown UK was founded.
The publishing division, ranked in Billboard's Music Publishing Top 10, is Downtown's primary focus. In addition to administering copyrights, Downtown Music Publishing's services include royalty collection, songwriter development, catalog marketing, neighbouring rights, and financing services. It arranges co-writing opportunities and places its songwriter's compositions in film, television, advertising, and video game productions. Downtown writers have written hit songs for artists including Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Rihanna, and Selena Gomez, and, among others, their compositions have been used in the Hunger Games series, Girls, and Grand Theft Auto. Brands that have featured spots from Downtown writers include the NFL, Coca Cola, Apple Inc, Budweiser and Amazon.
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