Ep. 146: Golnar Khosrowshahi
And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
And The Writer Is
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is Golnar Khosrowshahi, the Founder and CEO of Reservoir, an award-winning independent music company headquartered in New York City and with operations in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, and Abu Dhabi. Founded in 2007, Reservoir is the first U.S.-based publicly traded independent music company and the first female founded and led publicly traded music company in the U.S. Under Golnar’s leadership, Reservoir has grown to own and administer over 130,000 copyrights and 36,000 master recordings, with titles dating as far back as 1900. Golnar continues to lead the team in building a well-attended roster and an established catalog, earning her the recognition as one of Billboard’s Most Powerful Female Executives for 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, and a Billboard Indie Power Player for 2017 and 2018. Furthermore, Reservoir was awarded Publisher of the Year at Music Business Worldwide’s The A&R Awards in 2017 and 2019, and was named IndependentPublisher of the Year at the 2020 Music Week Awards.
In addition to her role as CEO of Reservoir, Golnar serves as a Director on the board of the National Music Publishers’ Association, based in Washington, DC and working to ensure fair compensation and property rights for songwriters and their representatives. She also sits on NMPA’s SONGS Foundation Board of Directors, an organization that raises funds to support career songwriters. Working alongside Artist Director and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Golnar served as Board Chair of Silkroad, a non-profit organization formed in 2000, and is now a Director. And the Executive is…Golnar Khosrowshahi!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to And The Writer Is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with hundreds |
| 0:15.7 | of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session is the first |
| 0:20.1 | hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever. So this is |
| 0:26.0 | a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, |
| 0:31.7 | who the people are, who write the songs. I'm producing this with the great Joe London, |
| 0:36.3 | big deal music publishing, and mega house music management. If you want to listen to the |
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| 0:56.0 | Welcome to And The Update is I'm your host, Paige McDonald, and this is your weekly music |
| 1:08.6 | industry update. Empire just paid a $1 million advance in Bitcoin to the Atlanta-based |
| 1:15.9 | rapper and entrepreneur, Money Man. In groups has expanded into India and appointed a |
| 1:22.4 | Mitt Sharma as country manager for the market. Catchpoint writes partners and M3 music have |
| 1:29.4 | created a pact to source Latin music catalog acquisition opportunities. Downtown Music Services |
| 1:36.3 | have announced a series of US senior promotions. Dave Holly has launched a music industry |
| 1:43.1 | podcast called Gigamy. The British production company Marve and Warner Music Group have |
| 1:49.4 | announced the launch of new label, Marve Music. Warner Chapel Music has entered into a |
| 1:56.3 | worldwide co-publishing agreement with Cardi B. The deal covers future works as well as |
| 2:01.1 | recent releases including rumors. Cobalt has signed the singer-songwriter and rapper |
| 2:07.4 | Young Thug to a global publishing deal. The digital music distributor Tune Core has partnered |
| 2:13.9 | with Twitch to launch the services new artist incubator program The Collective. The program |
| 2:18.9 | is designed to empower artists. 10K projects has launched 10K Ventures powered by playwork |
| 2:25.8 | and initiative to back early stage founders that integrate within the music ecosystem. |
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