Chris Meehan is the Founder and CEO of publisher Sentric Music.<\/p>\n
He set up the Liverpool-based company in 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sentric Music was sold<\/a> to Utopia Music in February 2022, before being sold on to Believe<\/a> in March 2023.<\/p>\n In 2003, Chris Meehan was studying at Liverpool\u2019s Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) while trying to manage the careers of local bands.<\/p>\n The initial idea for Sentric was cemented when Meehan visited now-defunct Manchester industry show In The City, and watched prominent UK publishers voice their opinions on panels. He told MBW: “The emerging theme was \u2018we don\u2019t know what these [publishing execs] do but they seem to have loads of money. The more we looked into it, the more we realised the industry wasn\u2019t doing anything about collecting money [for unsigned artists] until they got to a certain level.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThe traditional publishing industry doesn\u2019t have the capacity to help and work with artists until they arrive on the music business radar \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t meant the money isn\u2019t out there for them.<\/p>\n Profitable since 2009, Sentric Music has grown rapidly to become a global, award-winning independent publisher. Based in Liverpool and with offices in London, Hamburg, Spain and New York, it boasts an international infrastructure including direct royalty collection with over 100 global territories.<\/p>\n Transparency, Chris Meehan says, \u201cshould not be a company\u2019s USP \u2013 it should be a fundamental expectation\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we\u2019ve benefited from the industry not telling people exactly what\u2019s going on,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n \u201cOur whole ethos has been about making music publishing a level playing field so everyone can have access; in the same way that\u00a0Tunecore\u00a0gave everyone the ability to put their music online.\u201d<\/p>\n Chris Meehan in 2017<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chris Meehan is the Founder and CEO of publisher Sentric Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":96751,"template":"","class_list":["post-99196","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/99196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/99196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChris Meehan: From student to CEO<\/h6>\n
\nChris Meehan: Personal Philosophy<\/h6>\n