Music Manager (company)
Music Manager is a Danish music-rights management and music-technology company based in Aalborg, Denmark. The company works with music catalogues and rights holders, providing catalogue auditing, metadata analysis, distribution review and rights-performance analysis.
The Danish legal entity, Music Manager ApS, was established in December 2014. The company describes the Music Manager business as having been founded in 2017.
History
Music Manager ApS was registered in Denmark on 15 December 2014 under CVR number 36468181. Danish corporate information describes the company's purpose as owning music and other entertainment rights and developing and distributing products based on those rights.
Music Manager states that its current business was founded in 2017 by Jimmy Bach. Bach serves as the company's chief executive officer.
Verner Bach Pedersen has also been associated with the company's development. Pedersen is chairman of the Nordic film-distribution company Sandrew Metronome.
Music Manager is owned by Music Holding Company A/S. The holding company's published accounts identify Music Manager ApS in Aalborg, Music Manager Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Marathon Media International Ltd. as subsidiaries.
Industry membership
Music Manager has been listed as a member of IFPI Danmark, the Danish national group of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The company appears in IFPI Danmark's published industry membership directories in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2024.
Music Manager ApS is also listed in the current global membership directory of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) as a member company in Denmark.
Services
Music Manager develops technology and provides services for analysing and managing music catalogues. ITS Platform is aimed at rights holders, record labels, catalogue investors, artists, managers, rights advisers and digital distributors.
Its services include catalogue auditing, metadata analysis and optimisation, rights-performance analysis, distribution review and catalogue strategy. The company also provides catalogue assessment for acquisition, disposal and valuation processes.
The company's work includes identifying metadata inconsistencies, distribution gaps and potential unclaimed or under-monetised revenue across music catalogues.
Corporate structure
Music Manager ApS is headquartered in Aalborg. Danish corporate records identify Jimmy Bach as director and Music Holding Company A/S as its parent company.
The company's Danish corporate registration states that its purpose is to own music and other entertainment rights and to develop and distribute products based on those rights.
Reported catalogue partnerships
Music Manager has announced a number of catalogue and rights-related agreements.
- In 2020, the company announced an agreement involving the Kandis catalogue.
- In 2021, Music Manager announced an agreement with British singer Chris Norman.
- In 2021, the company announced a partnership with JAM Music Company.
Music-rights market
Music Manager operates within the wider market for music catalogue ownership, administration and investment. The World Intellectual Property Organization has reported substantial investment in music catalogues since 2019, reflecting increased institutional interest in music rights as an asset class.
The wider recorded-music market has also continued to expand. Music Business Worldwide, citing MIDiA Research, reported that global recorded-music revenues increased by 6.5 percent to US$36.2 billion in 2024.