Mondo.NYC Speaker
Andrew Bergman
Chief Executive Officer, Downtown Music Holdings
Andrew Bergman serves as Chief Executive Officer of Downtown Music Holdings and oversees all day-to-day operations at Downtown and its expanding portfolio of companies. Previously, Bergman served as Downtown’s Chief Operating Officer for seven years where he architected Downtown’s M&A integrations and operational growth. A 20-year veteran of the music industry, Andrew initially served as the company’s outside counsel before he joined full time in 2008 as General Counsel and Executive Vice President. Prior to his work with Downtown, Bergman served as partner at highly respected music law firms, Roberts & Ritholz LLP and Davis Shapiro & Lewit, where he represented a variety of record labels, publishers, executives and multi-platinum recording artists.
Mondo 2024 Panels
The State of Indie Music Publishing
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 5:00 PM
Music industry pundits often talk about the rise of independent artists when it comes to recorded music. Luminate’s most recent report confirms that by almost any metric indie artists are growing faster than their major label counterparts. Is the independent music publishing sector seeing the same trends? How are indie publishers grappling with DSP trends that devalue songs? In this wide-ranging discussion, we’ll hear from three of the biggest players in the music publishing sector on the state of the business from an independent point of view.