The Bicycle Music Company was a music publishing company founded independently, and after growing for a number of years was merged with

Concord Music Group Concord Music Group was an American independent music company based in Beverly Hills, California, with worldwide (including the U.S.) distribution through Universal Music Group. The company specialized in recordings ( Fearless Records, Concord R ...

in 2015. As of 2010, it owned or administered over 12,000 works from songwriters.

Early history

The Bicycle Music Company was founded in 1974 by music publishing executive David Rosner, veteran of the CBS publishing division April/Blackwood Music and longtime publishing representative to singer-songwriter

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. One of the company's early international hits was “Let Your Love Flow,” written by Neil Diamond's guitar technician, Larry E. Williams. Later, Rosner's son, Jonathan, joined Bicycle Music and expanded the company's contemporary writer relationships. In 2005, Rosner sold Bicycle Music to

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and the latter's newly formed music rights acquisition company Sound Investors, LLC, owned by Clear Channel Entertainment executive Stephen Smith. Concord's Chief Publishing Executive, Jake Wisely, joined the management team at the closing of the acquisition. By the end of that year, following Clear Channel's decision to divest significant entertainment assets and spin off the balance of its holdings into a separately traded public company called

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, Smith became the company's sole owner. A year later, Sound Investors contributed its interest in Bicycle to a new rights management partnership with Wood Creek Capital Management. By this time, Bicycle oversaw the publishing concerns of a catalog including

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Glen Ballard Basil Glen Ballard Jr. (born May 1, 1953) is an American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer. He is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's 1995 album ''Jagged Little Pill'', which won Grammy Awards for Grammy Award fo ...

(recorded by

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and

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), and many others. By 2010, Bicycle Music had purchased additional song catalogs including artists

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(co-wrote for Sublime and Long Beach All-Stars),

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, and more. in April 2010, Bicycle acquired part of the

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catalogue, including ''

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'' by

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. In October 2013, The Bicycle Music Company acquired the catalogue of

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and partnered with

to distribute the catalogue. Concord and Bicycle merged in April 2015, and Concord acquired the rest of Wind-Up in May 2015.

Concord Bicycle Music

Bicycle Music had completed over 100 publishing and master recording catalog deals by 2015. That year, the Bicycle Music Company was merged with Concord Music Group to form the fully-integrated global music company called Concord Bicycle Music.

References

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