Concord Joins Forces With PULSE

• Concord Music Publishing and PULSE Music Group have announced a partnership, forming an exclusive joint venture music publishing business. Having acquired Fujipacific Music’s global stake, Concord will now administer the catalog and all future signings from PULSE.

PULSE principals Scott Cutler and Josh Abraham, along with their executive team, including President Maria Egan and VP Ashley Calhoun, will run the joint venture, while Concord oversees administration. PULSE’s roster of hitmakers includes Starrah, Ty Dolla $ign, OZ, Tyler Johnson, YEBBA, Rich The Kid, James Blake, YBN Cordae, El-P, Bonnie McKee and others.

Concord Chief Publishing Executive Jake Wisely remarked, “Scott and Josh are proven winners whose business built from scratch is both complementary to and strategic with Concord’s ambitions in music publishing. It was quickly apparent that PULSE would make a great partner for us and PULSE recognized that Concord is the best fit for them. I’m also grateful to do business with longtime friend and colleague Ichi Asatsuma of Fujipacific.”

In a joint statement, PULSE co-CEO’s Scott Cutler and Josh Abraham said, “From Day 1, we built PULSE Music Group as a world-class incubator for culturally relevant songs. We wanted to create a haven built by songwriters, for the modern songwriter culture. Through the hard work, A&R prowess, and passion of our entire team combined with the global footprint, financial capacity and administration expertise of the team at Concord, we are now well on our way to achieving that. This joint venture with Jake, Steve, Bob, Scott and the team at Concord enables us to continue providing world-class services to our writers who are at the forefront of every decision we make.”