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Artist & Manager Awards: Mogwai and Karma Artists Win Big

The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and Music Managers Forum (MMF) can reveal that Mogwai and Karma Artists have been added to the winners roll call at the 2021 Artist & Manager Awards.

Hosted in association with SoundCloud, the Awards ceremony takes place at London’s Bloomsbury Big Top on Thursday 18th November, and will be hosted by Capital FM’s Roman Kemp.

As previously announced, other winners at the prestigious event – which celebrates achievements in the artist and manager community – include Elton John and David Furnish (Artist & Manager Partnership Award, sponsored by PPL), Little Simz (Artist of the Year, sponsored by Amazon Music) Amy Morgan, September Management (Manager of the Year Award, sponsored by YouTube Music) The Black Music Coalition (Industry Champions) and Grace Ladoja MBE, Metallic Inc (Entrepreneur Award).

Winners of the Breakthrough Artist, sponsored by Spotify, and Breakthrough Manager categories will be announced on the night.

25 years since they formed in Glasgow, 2021 provided Mogwai (pictured above) with their first ever UK number one album, As The Love Continues - testament not only to the band’s artistic excellence, but also their enduring influence and uncompromising template of sonic beauty combined with the darkest humour.

Flying the independent flag through their ownership of Rock Action Records, Mogwai have continued to break new ground - soundtracking films including Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, plus The Fountain, and Before The Flood collaborating with Clint Mansell, Trent Reznor and Kronos Quartet. The band’s 2020 soundtrack for ZeroZeroZero was released initially via Bandcamp with 50% of first week proceeds being donated to charities including Help Musicians.

Returning to live shows with a headline appearance at this year’s Green Man Festival, Mogwai follow a handful of dates this November with a world tour in January 2022, encompassing shows across Europe, Mexico, North America and Canada.

Joining Mogwai as winners are Karma Artists (pictured below), who will pick up the Award for Writer/Producer Manager. Co-founded by former Universal Music A&R executives Jordan Jay and Ross Gautreau, Karma Artists’ writer and producer clients include Red Triangle Productions/ Super-Hi, Tre Jean-Marie, Jimbo Barry, Will Reeves, Jim Eliot, Cutfather, PhD, Jez Ashurst, Paul O’ Duffy, and John Fortis.

With the business now approaching its tenth anniversary, Karma-represented creators have contributed to more than 10 UK No.1 albums and 400m units sold, working with artists including Charlie Puth, One Republic, Zedd, David Guetta, P!nk, Mabel, Rita Ora, Tom Walker, Green Day, Alesso, Take That, Craig David, James Arthur, Little Mix, Olly Murs, The Script, Jason Derulo, Sigala, Lukas Graham and Katy Perry.

Karma has enjoyed a particularly stellar 2021, with their roster contributing to hits including One Too Many (Keith Urban & P!nk), Lighter (Nathan Dawe & KSI), See Nobody (Wes Nelson & Hardy Caprio), Patience (KSI ft YUNGBLUD & Polo G) and Way Too Long (Nathan Dawe, Anne-Marie & MoStack).

Annabella Coldrick, Music Managers Forum CEO, said: “Within the industry, I don’t think we’ve ever seen such a profound focus on the importance of writers and producers as we have over the past 18 months or so. The managers who represent this bedrock of talent also deserve to be recognised for their tireless investment and development, and, as they approach a major milestone anniversary I’m really pleased we can celebrate the achievements of Jordan, Ross and the entire Karma team.

“MMF will also continue to shine a light on the vitally important role of writer/producer managers in our upcoming Managing Expectations report.”

Full details of the Awards can be found here. Further winners will be announced shortly. For the final remaining seats and tables, please contact Lovisa@themmf.net