Jason Boyarski: I have a chart, published by the RIAA, that I show our associates all the time. What changes in the music business have you seen over the last decade? To mark the firm’s first decade, Boyarski and Fritz talk bringing the Prince catalog into the 21st century and generating $125 million during the catalog sales boom, as well as the viability of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a revenue stream.
It has also represented companies across the entertainment sector, such as technology (Create Music Group, Musixmatch, Facebook), management and production (Electric Feel Music, Disruptor), event promotion (AEG, Dreamstage) and film/TV and podcasts (AudioUp, Triage/Levity). The firm’s client list has also included recording artists such as Marc Anthony, Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon, DJ Paul Oakenfold, Lil Tecca, Wyclef Jean, Babyface and AlunaGeorge, as well as top songwriter-producers Louis Bell (Post Malone, Justin Bieber), Tainy (Bad Bunny, J Balvin), Frank Dukes (Camila Cabello, The Weeknd) and Cirkut (Katy Perry, Ava Max). The firm has represented the Prince estate since 2016 - with Boyarski serving as lead entertainment counsel - as well as the estates of Donny Hathaway and Antônio Carlos Jobim.ĭonny Hathaway performs at Mister Kelly’s in Chicago on November 1, 1971. Ten years later, Boyarski Fritz now uses its whiteboards to plan out publishing, catalog acquisition and master-use rights deals, talent agency and live tour agreements, mixing and engineering contracts, and joint-venture deals for a blue-chip client roster. The firm brokered the sale of Blackheart Films’ 2018 documentary about the singer, Bad Reputation, and served as production counsel for its scripted film Undateable John in 2019. In addition to inking publishing administration deals with BMG and UMPG and a distribution deal with Sony Music (which made her music available on streaming services for the first time), the attorneys also enabled Jett to expand into fashion, merchandise, film and TV. Joan Jett, who became one of the firm’s first clients in 2012, says Boyarski and Fritz helped her Blackheart Group grow by “tens of millions” of dollars. “People would come in and be like, ‘You guys are working on that?’ We’d say, ‘We can’t tell you what it is, but yeah.’ ” “We had a whiteboard in the office where we would put up a fake transaction, some multibillion-dollar deal,” he recalls with a laugh. While they looked for answers, Fritz jokes that early on, he and Boyarski would sometimes employ creative solutions to impress new clients. What did you get? Share your quiz results with Pinkvilla in the comments below.SiriusXM Adds 2 Million Subscribers in 2012 Join the biggest community of K-Pop fans live on Pinkvilla Rooms to get one step closer to your favourite K-Celebs! Click here to join.ĪLSO READ: Dear Oppa: BTS’ music and words brought bliss to the life of a young Indian ARMY Today, actually any day is a good day to stream some of our favourite BTS albums, while we eagerly wait for the highly-anticipated ' My Universe' with the legendary band Coldplay! Plan a luxury holiday and we will reveal which BTS album you should stream. Having sold over 20 million albums on the Gaon Music Chart, BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history and holds the best-selling album in South Korea with Map of the Soul: 7.
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