Finegold Music
Company Information
Fine Gold Music is a dynamic, multi-faceted boutique music firm based in NYC founded in 2002 by Jonathan Finegold. FGM focuses on music licensing for advertisements, films/TV projects, movie trailers and video games. They also provide music supervision, consultation and A&R capacities in projects ranging from feature films, ad campaigns to Billboard charting albums. They have in-house Billboard charting producers and artists who can provide custom written music for your needs.
Catalog/Representation
FGM represents over 1,500 Billboard charting hits and a total of over 25,000 titles including George Clinton/Funkadelic, Brunswick Records (Jackie Wilson, The Chi-lites), Westbound Records/Bridgeport Music, Greensleeves, K-tel, Last Gang, Chocolate Industries, Ministry of Sound, Nublu, Fierce Panda, and numerous indie rock/pop, electro, reggae, punk, oldies and hip-hop labels. They also represent over 15,000 songs in which they control both master and publishing; making clearances simple.
Fine Gold's management division represents several top Hip Hop, Reggae, Reggaeton, Dancehall and R&B producers both domestically and internationally including Steven "Lenky" Marsden who was a co-writer on Sean Paul's hit "Get Busy"Get Busy along with many other notable singles and albums.
Recent Placements
TV Shows/Movies
United States of Tara, When in Rome, Cabin in the Woods, Eastwick, The Blind Side, Flash Forward, Beautiful Life, What AbOUT Brian, The Wire, The Wrestler, The L Word, Trueblood, Ugly Betty, The Reaping, Spread, Swingtown, The Philanthropist, Road Trip, The Reef, The Rebound, National Lampoon's "Pledge This", Prison Break, Observe and Report, Meet the Fockers, Mad Men, I Love You Philip Morris, Lincoln Heights, Life, Life on Mars, Knocked Up, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, From G's to Gents, Gossip Girl, Everybody Hates Chris, Entourage, Dukes of Hazard, Chuck, Confessions of a Shopaholic, CSI, Dance Flick, Cane, Burn Notice, Brothers and Sisters, Bratz, Breaking Bad, Bones, Be Kind Rewind, Backseat.
Games
X Games, Fifa 10, Fifa Street, Burnout Dominator.
Commercials
Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Blackberry, Guinness, Pontiac.
Client List
Ipecac Recordings, Hot Hot Heat Records, RBC Records, Chocolate Ind., Westbound Records, Uproot Records, Traxhouse Records, Snapper Records, Select Records, SMC Recordings, Rituals Music, P-Vine Records, NuBlu Records, Maple Music, Ropeadope Records, Luakabop Records, Soundies Records, Time Bomb Recordings, Sunday Best Records, Hyena Records, Gr2 Records, [...] NYC, JDUB Records, K-Tel, Fierce Panda, VP Records, Karisma Records, HedKandi, Greensleeves Records, Delicious Vinyl Records, Last Gang Records, Cumbancha, Brunswick Records, Adeline Records, Cold Chillin', Music World Entertainment, S.A.F. Records, Fearless Records, Trust Kill Records.
Owner/Founder
Finegold has been a NYC club promoter and DJ (The World, Save The Robots, Palladium, MK, Milky Way), and radio host (WNYU), and journalist (CMJ). He was the co-founder and organizer of the New Music Seminar’s DJ & MC Battle for World Supremacy. At WNYU he interviewed acts such as LL Cool J, Public Enemy, X, The Ramones, Mantronix and KRS-One. At The World he promoted shows for the likes of Schooly D, Biz Markie, and Heavy D. In the 80’s he was a fixture on the Manhattan club scene and was responsible for helping bring hip-hop to the Downtown scene.
He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Clive Davis School of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a former instructor at SUNY Oneonta and guest lecturer at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and Baruch College in New York City. Mr. Finegold holds both a Bachelors Degree in accounting and finance and a Masters Degree in arts administration, from New York University (Stern and Steinhardt). He is currently a member of the Dance Music Hall of Fame and is a voting member of NARAS (Grammy).