Concord, the assumed business name of Alchemy Copyrights LLC,[12][14] is an independent American holding company dealing in creative rights primarily in the music industry.
[21][b] Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York City, London, Berlin, Melbourne and Miami and staff in Auckland, Sydney, Toronto and Tokyo, Concord's repertoire is licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide.
[30][31] In 2010, the State of Michigan Retirement Systems invested its first $25 million into Concord Music Group through Wood Creek Capital Management (a wholly owned unit of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company).
[34] Norman Lear retired to become chairman emeritus, replaced by Steve Smith who joined Concord Music Group from the new owner consortium along with Scott Pascucci.
[37] He had acquired Bicycle Music in 2004, where he worked with Jake Wisely and partnered up with Steven Salm of Wood Creek in 2006 to boost the company's financing.
[12] By 2018, in the estimation of its chief business development officer Steve Salm, the company's revenue placed it in between "corporate giants" and "most indies", which gave it "an advantage in deals".
[60] In late 2021, incoming interest prompted Concord majority owner, the Michigan State Retirement System, to consider a sale of its stake in the company.
[62] In December 2022, Concord successfully closed $1.8 billion of senior notes, secured by a significant portion of its diversified catalogue of sound recordings and songs.
Led by Apollo Global Management and assisted by J.P. Morgan, it was the largest asset-backed securitization offering of music rights in the industry to date in terms of both size of issuance and number of assets (over one million copyrights).
[70] As of 2022, Concord Music Publishing's active roster includes The 1975,[71] Glen Ballard,[72] Fiona Bevan,[73] BIA,[74] Jason Robert Brown,[75] Tofer Brown,[76] Daft Punk,[77] Davido,[78] Chase + Status,[79] Cautious Clay,[80] Jacob Collier,[81] Denzel Curry,[82] James Earp,[83] Jasper Harris,[84] Ruston Kelly,[85] Tom Kitt,[86] Hillary Lindsey,[87] Duff McKagan,[88] Lori McKenna,[89] Josh Miller,[90] Justin Parker,[91] Steve Reich,[92] John Adams,[93] Steve Robson,[94] Mark Ronson,[95] Anthony Rossomando,[71] Biff Stannard, Varren Wade,[96] Walshy Fire,[97] Tion Wayne,[71] Eric Whitacre,[98] Oh Wonder[99] and Yola.
Concord Music Publishing's catalog of songwriters and composers includes Benny Blanco,[100][71] Leonard Bernstein[101] Sammy Cahn,[102] Phil Collins,[103] Willie Colón,[104] Aaron Copland,[105] John Fogerty,[106] Marvin Hamlisch,[107] Oscar Hammerstein II,[92] Imagine Dragons,[108] Iron Maiden,[109] Robert Johnson,[110] Cyndi Lauper,[111] Jimmy Napes,[112] Pink Floyd,[113] Sergei Prokofiev,[114] Trent Reznor,[115] Richard Rodgers,[92] Santigold,[116] Joan Sebastian,[117] Pete Seeger,[118] Nikki Sixx,[71] Igor Stravinsky[92] and Ryan Tedder.
[120] PULSE's current songwriter roster includes James Blake, Cordae, Trevor Daniel, El-P, Brent Faiyaz,[121] FNZ, Tyler Johnson, Kehlani, Bonnie McKee, OG Parker, OZ, Rich The Kid, Starrah, Ty Dolla $ign, and YEBBA.
[128] Craft represents the many labels for which these artists' originally recorded, including Sugar Hill, Vanguard, Musart, Savoy Jazz, Stax, Vee-Jay, Fania, Independiente and Varese Sarabande.
[133] Source:[180] Concord's KIDZ BOP label has sold 23 million albums, generated 8 billion streams, has a featured channel on Sirius XM and an international tour under its name.
[185] The professional and amateur theatrical licensing catalog includes Samuel French, R&H Theatricals and Tams-Witmark, representing the works of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jule Styne, Comden and Green, Charles Strouse & Lee Adams, Cy Coleman, Jerry Herman, Kander and Ebb and Marvin Hamlisch, and shows and songs by musical theater composers Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Shaina Taub and Michael John LaChiusa.
Playwrights include George S. Kaufman, Lindsay and Crouse, Agatha Christie, Thornton Wilder, Noël Coward, Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Ken Ludwig, Dominique Morisseau, Anne Washburn and Mac Rogers.
[20] Concord Theatricals also works with Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Really Useful Group to license the composer and his collaborators' musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, School of Rock, Evita, Cats, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
The division's slate consists of feature films, series, documentaries and podcasts, including remakes and re-imaginings of properties from Concord's iconic portfolio.
[196] The business is in development on several major screen projects based on iconic musicals by Rodgers & Hammerstein: a TV series reimagining of Oklahoma!, which Concord Originals is producing alongside Skydance TV, a remake of The King and I with Temple Hill at Paramount Pictures and a contemporary take on Flower Drum Song with Daniel Dae Kim's 3AD and Janet Yang Productions.