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ARTIST MANAGEMENT

Day-to-day, releases, sync, EU touring and the paperwork nobody warned you about. Commission, not ownership — the recordings stay yours.

COMMISSION
15—20%
SUNSET
12 MONTHS
ROSTER SIZE
ONE
MASTERS
ARTIST-OWNED

One name on the roster, on purpose. We can do this job properly for a handful of artists and badly for twenty, and the difference is entirely how many people are waiting for an answer at once.

Commission is 15% for developing artists under €50k annual income and 20% above that, on net income. We don't commission tour costs or recouped advances, and there's a twelve-month sunset rather than the open-ended version.

We don't do hybrid label deals. If you want a label, we'll help you talk to labels. What we won't do is be your manager and your rights-holder at the same time, because those two roles disagree constantly and the artist loses every argument.

The EU touring work is the part most people underestimate: visas, carnets, withholding tax, ticketing terms and the four different definitions of a settlement. That's the paperwork line above, and it is genuinely the reason first tours lose money.

WHAT WE COVER
DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT
RELEASE PLANNING & RADIO
SYNC & PUBLISHING ADMIN
EU TOURING, VISAS, CARNETS
PRESS & INTERVIEW SCHEDULING
CONTRACT REVIEW WITH OUR LAWYER
ON THE ROSTER

Vapour — Johannesburg producer and vocalist. Debut EP Smoke Signal, 12 September 2026.

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