Sentric Music

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Sentric Music
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Parent company Believe Digital
Founded2006;18 years ago (2006)
Location Liverpool, UK
Official website sentricmusic.com

Sentric Music is a British independent music publisher specialising in emerging songwriters and artists.

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In February 2022, Sentric was acquired by the Swiss fintech company Utopia Music. In March 2023, Utopia sold Sentric to the French record company Believe Digital for €47 million (US$51 million). Since July 2018, Sentric has represented Believe's Tunecore Music Publishing. [1]

Company profile

Founded in 2006, [2] the company has its headquarters in Liverpool, England and staff across Europe. [3] The company administers the works of over 100,000 artists and writers, covering more than 1 million songs globally.

Sentric publishes their writers' work in the UK via PRS for Music and the MCPS collection societies. Sentric also collects directly in over 50 territories across Europe for its songwriters. [4]

In May 2012 the North West Fund for Digital & Creative, managed by AXM Venture Capital Limited, made an equity investment into Sentric Music. [5] [ dead link ]

As well as collecting royalties for their writers, Sentric seeks synchronization opportunities for its writers, having previously placed music in advertisements for companies such as Lexus, O2 Germany, and De Montfort University. [6] In February 2013 Sentric was nominated at the Music+Sound Awards in the Best Sync: Trailers and Promos category for the use of Kankouran song "Rivers" in the trailer for Series 6 of Skins. [7] [ dead link ]

In June 2012 Sentric Music entered into a co-publishing agreement with Brussels-based Strictly Confidential, the publishing arm of PIAS. [8] The first two artists signed under the co-publishing agreement were Tall Ships and Cattle & Cane. [9]

In February 2013 Sentric Music's CEO, Chris Meehan, was included in the Music Week "30 Under Thirty" list in February 2013, recognizing notable young professionals in the UK music industry. [10]

A partnership with INgrooves Music Publishing was announced in July 2013. INgrooves Music Publishing is a new division of INgrooves headed by industry veteran Olivier Chastan. As part of the partnership, Sentric Music provides worldwide rights administration and platform services. [11]

In early 2014 Sentric launched a new Brand & Artist Services division, with the intention of adding value to brands with the artists/songwriters that the company works with. [12]

Spring 2014 saw Sentric win a collaborative Technology Strategy Board bid to invest in its Rights Management system. Working in conjunction with Imperial College London, the eighteen-month big data project, titled Data Exploration and Predictive Analytics for Music Publishing, [13] will create tools for predictive modeling and data visualization for use in the music publishing industry. [14]

In March 2017, Sentric Music scored a multimillion-pound investment from UK-based venture capital business BGF. [15] In June 2017, Sentric Music signed an administration deal with Chinese independent music firm Modern Sky Entertainment. [16]

In July 2018, music distributor Tunecore partnered with Sentric, granting access to Sentric's technology and global collection network, while enhancing Tunecore's distribution and publishing administration services. [17]

In February 2022, it was announced that Sentric Music had been acquired by the Switzerland-headquartered fintech company, Utopia Music. It was also announced that Sentric Music's CEO, Chris Meehan, would join Utopia Music as Vice President of Royalty Management Services. [18]

Awards

In August 2014 Sentric Music was nominated in the Sync Team (Independent Publisher) and Sync - Individual Placement (TV Show: Sports) categories at the Music Week Sync Awards 2014. [19]

In December 2010 Sentric Music was winner of the Virtual Business Awards 2010. [20]

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