Cooking Vinyl Announces the Creation of a Major New Catalogue Masters Initiative

We are delighted to announce the formation of a new department to optimise and grow our catalogue offering to artists and labels. The new department will be headed up by catalogue industry stalwart Steve Bunyan. During his time running catalogue teams at Union Square Music and BMG Steve worked with artists including Madness, Slade, Fatboy Slim, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, Supergrass and Kylie Minogue and labels such as World Circuit, Trojan and Strictly Rhythm.

Cooking Vinyl chairman Martin Goldschmidt comments, “Working for the artists and music we love and advancing their careers is what gets us out of bed in the morning. The appointment of someone of the calibre and standing of Steve Bunyan allows us to enhance our service to artists and to look to acquire new catalogues of recordings. Our track record, size, flexibility and financial backing means that we offer an attractive bespoke alternative to the larger companies currently hoovering up rights.”

Steve Bunyan adds, “Cooking Vinyl is ideally placed to offer a unique service to artists where a new release is initially worked by the frontline team and then by the catalogue department to continue the retailer, consumer and media promotion to drive additional long-term sales. Too many labels just focus on the initial week one chart position which – important as it is – does not do justice to the many months of work that goes into making a new record.”