Talking A&R, indie spirit and the art of deal-making with Concord's Kim Frankiewicz & Tom Coulson-Smith

Karen Bliss

Concord Music Publishing won big at the Music Week Awards this year – and with recent cuts on hit albums by Olivia Dean, Dave and Charli XCX, it isn’t hard to see why. Here, Music Week meets the company’s EVP of worldwide A&R Kim Frankiewicz and VP of A&R Tom Coulson-Smith to talk global reach, deal-making and why managers keep telling them: “Oh my God, you didn’t lie”...

WORDS: KAREN BLISS
PHOTOS: PAUL HARRIES

More than 13 years ago, Tom ...

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