Publisher of the Year
GUY MOOT, Managing Director, EMI Music Publishing UK
Guy Moot is one of the most successful figures working in the British publishing industry today, with more than twenty years of creative and commercial experience
After starting his career in the music business in 1984 with A&R roles at both ATV Music and Chrysalis Records, he joined SBK Music Publishing in 1987 ahead of its merger with EMI two years later. Over the next sixteen years, Guy rose through the ranks of EMI Music Publishing, before being appointed executive vice president of A&R for the UK and Europe in 2003. Two years later, he succeeded Peter Reichardt as Managing Director of the UK business.
During his time at EMI Music Publishing, Moot has signed some of the biggest songwriters around, including the White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Scissor Sisters, Eminem, Jamiroquai, StarGate, The Feeling and Sean Paul.
EMI Music Publishing is the world's most creative music publisher with more than one million copyrights including some of the best known songs ever written. Its current hitmaking writers and producers include Arctic Monkeys, Natasha Bedingfield, James Blunt, Amanda Ghost, Calvin Harris, Mark Ronson and My Chemical Romance.
This is the fourth time that EMI Music Publishing has been named ASCAP's Publisher of the Year in the UK. The company has also been Music Week's Publisher of the Year for the last twelve years. Its bands and solo songwriters were victorious in a record six out of twelve categories at the 2007 BRIT Awards, and dominated this year's Ivor Novello Awards with six awards including Songwriters of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Song and the Outstanding Song Collection.
Guy Moot commented, "It's a great honour to be named ASCAP's Publisher of the Year again. I believe that EMI Music Publishing's catalogue of songs is the strongest collection in the world, and it's a privilege to be able to represent them. We're continuing to invest in the strength and depth of our catalogue through the new songwriters that we sign every year, and I'm confident that many of the songs our writers are producing today will be the timeless tracks of the future."
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