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My guest is Alexandre Williams, the co-founder and COO of Create Music Group. They’re a distribution, publisher, YouTube royalty collection, rights management, influencer, and TikTok (through Flighthouse) marketing company. Inc Magazine named them the second fastest growing company in America in 2020.

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Create Music Group has over 25,000 artists and 5,000 label clients. They distributed Tekashi 6ix9ine’s track “Trollz” with Nicki Minaj, and it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s the first time that a completely independent, distributed single has ever reached the No. 1 slot in the Billboard Hot 100.

We discuss playlist pitching, release strategy, and how Create Music Group approaches working with their artists.

6:20 – What is the core mission of Create Music Group?
10:53 – Create Music Group’s business model
12:27 – How CMG allocates their resources for their 25,000 artists
18:15 – Advances and CMG’s proprietary algorithm to determine them
19:59 – Devoting time and resources into the ‘middle class musicians’
24:52 – How CMG decides which artists to work with
28:18 – Building strategies for and with artists
31:55 – The secret to pitching to official Spotify playlists
38:18 – How much goes into the release plan before and after a track comes out
41:07 – How important is release day?
45:35 – How relevant is press today? Is it worth it?
48:36 – Breakdown of a marketing budget
54:16 – Advice to artists who don’t get the response they’re hoping for after their release
59:16 – What it means to Alexandre to make it in the new music business

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