Bicycle Music Company
| Company type | Independent music publishing enterprise |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music publishing |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Founder | David Rosner |
| Fate | Merged with Concord Music Group in 2015 to form Concord Bicycle Music |
Key people | David Rosner, Jonathan Rosner, Stephen Smith, Jake Wisely |
| Products | Music publishing catalogs and rights management |
The Bicycle Music Company was an independent music publishing enterprise established in 1974 by David Rosner, who had extensive experience at CBS's April/Blackwood Music and served as a longtime agent for Neil Diamond. One of its early notable achievements was the worldwide hit “Let Your Love Flow,” penned by Larry E. Williams, Diamond's guitar technician. Jonathan Rosner, David's son, later broadened the firm's roster with contemporary songwriters.
In 2005, Rosner sold Bicycle Music to Clear Channel Entertainment and its music rights investment division Sound Investors, LLC, overseen by Clear Channel executive Stephen Smith. Upon completion of the acquisition, Jake Wisely, Concord's Chief Publishing Executive, joined Bicycle's leadership team. After Clear Channel divested its entertainment holdings and spun off Live Nation, Smith assumed full ownership.
By 2006, Sound Investors integrated Bicycle into a rights management collaboration with Wood Creek Capital Management. The Bicycle catalog featured compositions by artists such as Marvin Hamlisch and Glen Ballard, whose works were notably performed by Michael Jackson and Alanis Morissette.
By 2010, Bicycle had grown its holdings through acquisitions of catalogs from musicians including Cyndi Lauper, Tammy Wynette, Ozomatli, Dwight Yoakam, and Montell Jordan. In April 2010, it secured part of the TVT Records catalog, featuring Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails.
In October 2013, Bicycle acquired the catalog of Wind-Up Records and entered into a distribution partnership with Concord Music Group. The two companies merged in April 2015, with Concord purchasing the remainder of Wind-Up in May 2015.
Concord Bicycle Music
By 2015, Bicycle Music had completed more than 100 deals involving publishing and master recording catalogs. That year marked the merger between Bicycle Music and Concord Music Group, resulting in the creation of the fully integrated global music entity known as Concord Bicycle Music.