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Chrysalis Music is one the few remaining independent publishers in the UK. Our job as a publisher is to maximise the worldwide use of our copyrights through record sales, concerts, commercials, computer games, film, television the Internet and mobile phones. We now have our own stand alone companies in Germany, Scandinavia, France, Spain, Holland and Italyand the United States. This puts us in a much stronger position to develop and promote our writers worldwide.

The A&R department's objective is to sign writers and artists for the world exclusively to Chrysalis Music. The biggest responsibility the department has is the huge role it plays in the development of an artist's career.

As an independent publisher with a very contemporary roster we like to get involved with writers and artists early on in their career. These artists are either unsigned by the major record companies or they have deals with very small independents, so they look to us for both creative and financial support. Our input varies tremendously depending on the individual needs of the artists.

In their preferred environment they can experiment with ideas and record a number of songs that can later be discussed and reviewed with their A&R person. Others may need to play live and we would assist them in financing a small tour. There are times when it is appropriate for us to finance the release of a single in order to generate media attention and record company awareness. The Chrysalis A&R team has a good relationship with the record industry's A&R community, allowing us to introduce artists and managers to them with a view to securing long term recording contracts.

The other key role in publishing is setting up collaborations between writers. This can produce some very exciting results and instils a certain confidence in the writer who perhaps up until this time has written on her/his own, unaware of the creative potential that a good songwriting partnership can produce. The exploitation of these songs is the responsibility of the professional manager in the A&R department who is in contact with all the major record companies and will "pitch" songs to them on a regular basis. Internationally, we have regular meetings with our colleagues, where we discuss requests and expectations that we would like to see from our partners overseas, for example:

Licensing deals
Lyric translations to facilitate local releases
Securing covers
Brokering deals with domestic record companies

The publisher's role encapsulates all the areas mentioned above. Its creative expertise is more and more in demand as it becomes apparent that publishing in the 21st century is where the artist's talent is nurtured before the multi-national record companies become involved. Our role as an company is to be involved with our writers and artists on a long term basis and help them to achieve their true potential.