Artist Management Services Ltd

We are delighted to share the news that we as a business are supporting a group of selected students from Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with the Institute of Directors. Every year, the university nominates a section of their students to become student members of the IoD, giving them access to additional support, a mentoring programme and a number of business-specific events designed to boost their real-world experience.  One such event is the £50 Challenge, where students are put into teams and are tasked with turning £50 into as much profit as possible in a set amount of time, with money raised going to charity. The challenge is done in partnership with the students' IoD mentors; Artist Management's CEO, Ben Marshall, spoke about how excited he is to be taking on a mentoring role this year:  "Both as a business and as individuals, we are passionate about seeing young people succeed. The £50 Challenge is a great opportunity for students, as not only does it

The cost of online music streaming services to artists has been hotly debated in recent weeks. Key figures from the industry have questioned the morality of streaming giants like Spotify and Apple Music, suggesting that musicians who make their work available on these platforms do not get a fair price per listen.  "Access to unlimited music is fast becoming an expectation; it's almost a commodity. The days of paying for an album or an individual song are gone in the majority of people's eyes," said Matthew Hunt, Artist Management's Head of Production. "To have restrictions to music taken away is fantastic, but it doesn't come without side-effects."  As well as the meagre pay-outs, artists have also criticised streaming providers for not doing enough to promote new music, opting instead to make recommendations to listeners that contain mostly household names and 'old-school classics'.  "A lot of my Spotify recommendations are singers and