New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Downtown
Music Publishing has today announced the appointment of Bruce Lampcov as Head of West Coast Business Development. Based in the company's Los Angeles office, Lampcov will be responsible for expanding Downtown's roster of prominent artist and songwriter catalogs, media companies, and film composers. The announcement was made by Andrew Sparkler, Downtown's Senior Vice President, Business Development.
"We are incredibly excited to welcome Bruce to the Downtown family." said Sparkler. His deep and varied industry experience will greatly increase our presence in Los Angeles and beyond. Additionally, having Bruce on the team will bring with it some familiar aspects (he has excellent taste in food) and some unique ones (as far as I know, he's our only employee who is a semi-professional cyclist)."
"Justin and the Downtown team have created a truly unique music company that is at the forefront of modern music publishing," said Lampcov. "Downtown's artist centric and tech driven approach provides a vibrant, passionate voice for today's music creators. I'm thrilled to be representing Downtown in Los Angeles and help build its family of artists, songwriters and content owners."
Before joining Downtown, Lampcov was Executive Vice President at Fintage House where he was responsible for building the company's music publishing and industry-leading neighboring rights business, and signed the likes of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Jay Z, Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen, Calvin Harris, and the
John Lennon Estate. At Fintage Lampcov also signed numerous music and media companies such as Lionsgate,
National Geographic, Hasbro, Concorde Music, Roc Nation, and Sub Pop. Prior to his stint a Fintage, Lampcov was Managing
Director of Kobalt
Music for its first four years. Lampcov's career in the music began in the 80's as an engineer and producer at The Power Station, where he worked with artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan,
David Bowie, Bryan Adams,
Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders, Lou Reed, The The, and The Eurythmics.
About Downtown
Music Publishing
Established in 2007, Downtown
Music Publishing is one of the world's leading rights-management firms with offices in major music markets around the globe, including New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Paris, and Sydney. The company's catalog spans over seven decades of popular music, encompassing some of the world's most beloved songwriters and artists including The Beatles,
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Hans Zimmer, The Kinks, One Direction, Mötley Crüe,
Robin Thicke, Naughty Boy, Hardwell, John Prine, Sturgill Simpson, Santigold, Carla Bruni, and Social Distortion. Downtown
Music Publishing is wholly owned by Downtown & Company, which also owns New York-based Downtown
Music Studios and Songtrust, the world's largest technology platform for songwriting and music publishing royalties, which powers global royalty collection from over 120 territories and more than 20,000 unique income sources worldwide.
