Photograph Credit score: Joanne Manariti (Chelsea, Chris, Jaime Gough)
Harmony has introduced the acquisition of impartial Australian music writer Native Tongue.
Along with the acquisition, Concord can also be asserting its first workplaces within the Australasia area, Harmony Music Publishing Australia & New Zealand. Harmony says its funding with Native Tongue and its workers marks one other strategic transfer for the corporate, increasing its world attain and assets it may possibly present for artists, songwriters, composers, and playwrights.
Native Tongue was based in 2003 by Chris Gough to supply songwriters and composers with a writer devoted to their improvement and the achievement of their targets all through their careers. Since Chris’ semi-retirement in 2014, the corporate has been led by siblings Jaime and Chelsea Gough.
The Native Tongue roster contains writers comparable to Courtney Barnett, Stuard Crichton (Backstreet Boys, Kesha, Kygo), Sophie Curtis (Cosmos Midnight, Jessica Mauboy, aespa), Sir Dave Dobbyn, Jon Hume (Dean Lewis, Sofi Tukker), M-Phazes (Ruel, Remi Wolf), Don McGlashan, Ciara Muscat (NiziU, TWICE), Steve Rusch (Clinton Kane), Tim Tan (Enhypen, Seventeen), Gin Wigmore and Marlon Williams.
Along with its success in Australia and New Zealand, Native Tongue additionally has various current triumphs in Asia. Native Tongue has songwriters on 5 Korean #1 charting releases and on two consecutive #1 albums in Japan at the beginning of 2022. Native Tongue can also be the sub-publisher for a lot of worldwide catalogues and has represented Harmony in Australia & New Zealand for greater than 12 years.
“Jaime and Chelsea together with our fantastic workforce of individuals, have grown the corporate considerably lately,” says Native Tongue founder Chris Gough. “That is the subsequent step, offering our home-grown writers with a very worldwide group able to maximizing their potential worldwide.”
“Australia and New Zealand are essential music markets in their very own proper and this can be a area the place we have now needed to take a position for a few years,” provides Harmony’s President of Worldwide Publishing, John Minch. “This will likely be an essential strategic transfer for Harmony in coordinating our Asia publishing initiatives, which Jaime will deal with. Above all, this acquisition is concerning the Native Tongue workforce, who we all know properly and imagine will actually take pleasure in being a part of Harmony.”
