‘Downtown Have Trusted Us To Run The Business in the Way That Made Us Successful in the First Place’

At the start of the year, Downtown Music Holdings announced that it had acquired UK-based music technology company Curve Royalty Systems.

The move was the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions made by Downtown in recent years. The New York-based company has also acquired companies including B2B music tech and services platform FUGA and indie distributor CD Baby, whilst making investments in the likes of Beatbread and Vampr. Curve, founded in 2019, serves over 1,000 labels and publishers worldwide and reported processing nearly $1 billion of revenue across 2.3 billion lines of data in 2022.

The company’s client base includes the likes of Cooking Vinyl Group, the Domino Recording Company, Hospital Records/Songs in the Key of Knife, Epitaph Records, Warp Records, Ingrooves, Mad Decent, MRC, Royalty Solutions Corp., Cal Financial, Alta Fonte and many more.

With the dust now settled on one of the first big acquisitions of 2023, co-founder Tom Allen tells MBW about the background to the deal and the future for Curve…

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