Downtown acquires Curve Royalty Systems

Downtown Music Holdings has acquired Curve Royalty Systems. Curve was founded in 2019 by Tom Allen (pictured), Richard Leach and Ray Bush, veterans of music companies including Cooking Vinyl, Essential Music and ADA. It was established as a royalty processing platform built to deal with the scale and demand of ...

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