Concord today announces that it has renewed its multi-year partnership with ICE, building on the excellent returns from its growing repertoire licensed within the market-leading ICE Core representation.
Having been a direct member of the ICE Core since 2018, Concord has seen significantly increasing royalties, with an average year-on-year rise of more than 34% since 2020.
The footprint of the ICE Core has also significantly expanded in recent years, incorporating regions such as MENA & Sub-Saharan Africa, robustly delivering fast and accurate royalty flows to rightsholders from more territories.
This deal cements an even closer partnership.
Jim Selby, Chief Publishing Officer, Concord
“We continue to see tremendous performance as part of the ICE Core and are excited by the future opportunities.
It’s a genuinely customer-centric partnership that we enjoy with everyone at ICE, and that extends well beyond doing the initial deal. Backing up deep market understanding with systems that efficiently and effectively deliver actual royalties enables us to in turn deliver more to our writers.“
Ben McEwen, Chief Commercial Officer, ICE
“It’s wonderful to be able to build on our long-standing relationship with the team at Concord and to continue to collaborate together on the future.
The ICE Core brings together and supports a wide variety of rightsholder customers to deliver shared benefits, including leading independent publishers such as Concord.
We look forward to continuing to deliver royalties and enable our customers to provide new services for the songwriters and composers we all serve.”
About Concord
www.concord.com
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.
Concord Music Publishing is home to the world’s leading classical music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, and operates exclusive joint ventures with top pop music publisher, Pulse Music Group and Hillary Lindsey’s Hang Your Hat Music.
About ICE
ICE is the music technology company created by rightsholders, for rightsholders.
It delivers accurate and transparent royalties to Songwriters, whilst simplifying the process for DSPs, by providing Publishers and Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) with superior Licensing, Processing and Copyright services.
Representing over 330,000 rightsholders, ICE has processed trillions of online music uses from music streaming services and paid over €3 billion back to rightsholders since March 2016.
The market-leading ICE Core licence includes repertoire* of collection societies PRS, STIM, GEMA, IMRO, BMI, Sabam, AKM and the independent publishers Concord, Songtrust and peermusic and a range of other independent publishers represented through PRS’s Core Collective initiative.
The ICE copyright database holds over 49 million musical works.
ICE is based in the UK, Germany and Sweden.
For press enquiries please contact:
Gary Smith
Head of Marketing
ICE
Tel: +49 171 2643172
Concord Media Contact:
Caroline Gumer
caroline.gumer@concord.com
*In line with industry practice, and depending on the society agreements, certain matching Anglo-American performing rights (e.g. for BMI, IMRO and PRS) may flow outside of this representation and may be covered by other partners.