Independent label Tru Thoughts Recordings has selected the Backbeat Royalty System to process its artist and music publishing royalties. Tru Thoughts was launched in 1999 in Brighton by Robert Luis and Paul Jonas and its roster features the likes of Quantic, Alice Russell, Hot 8 Brass Band and Nostalgia 77.Other Backbeat clients include Music Sales Group, Trinity College London, Bocu Music and Fat Cat Records.Chris Chambers, MD of Backbeat said: "We are delighted that Tru-Thoughts have chosen Backbeat to manage their royalty processing. It is a fitting tribute to our aim of providing the music industry with a cost-effective yet agile solution to the ever increasing challenges posed by the digital age."Our experience gained from working within the music industry itself allows us to deliver a system which caters for all levels of company involved in music from Recordings, and Publishing through to Print and Sheet.Added Jonny Halliday, head of distribution at Tru-Thoughts: "Backbeat provides us with an all encompassing royalty software solution. The usability and efficiency of the software has made the data initial ingestion extremely easy, Chris and the team at Backbeat have been extremely helpful and we're confident in their expertise. We combine both our publishing and recording interests in one database, providing an unproblematic and well-organized system with which to manage our royalty calculations."
