Music Glue is a specialist e-commerce platform for the music business which allows artists to sell physical and digital music, merchandise, and event tickets in multiple currencies and languages direct-to-fan. The company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Sydney.

History

Music Glue was launched in 2007 by Mark Meharry, with the goal of allowing artists to sell their music directly to consumers. "Controlled filesharing" was introduced with the band

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. In 2013, Music Glue launched its direct-to-fan platform at

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in Brighton, United Kingdom. By this time, Music Glue had worked with artists including

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. In July 2014, Music Glue became the primary ticket vendor for Gentlemen of the Road, a two-day festival in Lewes, Sussex. In September 2014, UK promotion group MAMA & Company announced a partnership with Music Glue for all applications for The Great Escape 2015, whereby artists applying to play the Brighton-based festival would need to create a Music Glue profile in order for their application to be accepted. Music Glue now runs the apply to play service for The Great Escape, Bushstock, Mondo NYC, Live at Leeds, Kendall Calling,

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, Evolution Emerging, Norwich Sound & Vision, Metropolis Rising. In 2015, Public Service Broadcasting used Music Glue for pre-orders and direct-to-fan sales for their album The Race For Space which charted at number 11 in the UK Albums chart and number 1 in the UK Independent Albums chart, and for tickets for The Race For Space tour. That year, Music Glue also was the ticketing vendor for Mumford & Sons UK Arena Tour with up to 50% of tickets per show sold via the platform. In 2017, Music Glue celebrated their 10th birthday and announced a partnership with Probity, an independently owned music merchandising company offering worldwide tour, retail and licensing services. Music Glue has been chosen by British Rock band

to be their official tickets partner on their UK and EU arena tour, selling direct to fans.

Recognition

In October 2007, Music Glue was nominated for a Best Innovation award at the

BT Digital Music Awards The BT Digital Music Awards (DMA) was a British music award ceremony held annually for 10 years from 2002 to 2011 (with no ceremony in 2009). Music industry professionals nominated artists, venues and hardware into the Judge's Choice award categor ...

. Music Glue had been called one of the "Top 100 tech media companies" by ''

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''.

References

{{Reflist Online music stores of the United Kingdom