Todd Meagher is an American entrepreneur and songwriter.
Career
Throughout the 1980s Meagher's company Todd Meagher Music had a co-publishing songwriter deal with Warner/Chappell Music co-writing songs with artists including
Night Ranger
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,
Gorky Park,
Tuff (band)
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,
Eddie Money
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, Alice Cooper, White Lion,
Warrant,
Julian Lennon
Julian Charles John Lennon (born John Charles Julian Lennon; 8 April 1963) is an English musician. He is the son of Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, and he is named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. Julian i ...
and
Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe).
In, 2009, Meagher launched theRevolution a full-service, artist-focused, music services company with John Lennon's son
Julian Lennon
Julian Charles John Lennon (born John Charles Julian Lennon; 8 April 1963) is an English musician. He is the son of Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, and he is named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. Julian i ...
and
Michael Birch.
In 2010, Meagher again partnered with Lennon and Birch to relaunch MyStore, an e-commerce website originally developed in 2005 to provide artists with a free web store to sell their music and merchandise via a MyStore button on their MySpace page. Also in 2010, Meagher and his company sued
The Agency Group, seeking $20 million in damages. The case was settled in 2017.
In 2019, Meagher sold MyStore.Com to
Mike Lindell
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owner of MyPillow who re-launched the site as a "Patriotic Rival to Amazon".
Affiliations
Meagher is a voting member of the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is famous for its Grammy Aw ...
, which organizes the Grammy Awards, as well as being affiliated with the
Warner Chappell Music
Warner Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company and a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. Warner Chappell Music's catalogue consists of over 1.4 million compositions and 65,000 composers, with offices in over 40 countries.
...
and
Broadcast Music, Inc.
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 20.6 milli ...
as a writer and music publisher.
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1961 births
Living people