Centricity Music

We launched a decade ago, recalls Centricity Music VP of A&R John Mays, when the music industry as we knew it was crumbling. The established labelsand I had just come out of onewere trying to figure out how to get ahead of the cataclysmic changes that were shattering the old business models. In hindsight, it was probably not the best time for someone to launch a new label. It was almost certainly not the best time to launch a new label that would be built from the ground up on a vision for relationship and patient, long-term, artist development. Not according to the conventional wisdom, anyway. Now, ten years later, Centricity has grown into a lean and vibrant, three-pronged indie company with label, music publishing, and management divisions that operate cooperatively but autonomously under the same roof. Though they still boast one of the smallest artist rosters and highest staff-to-artist ratios in the business, theyve fought hard to become a serious industry contender. The co...