Power 50 - #46: Jaime Gough & Matt Tanner

BACKGROUND CHECK

Jaime Gough's music industry experience began with an internship at Melbourne-based management company Mayday, where he booked tours for the likes of The Go-Betweens and Renee Geyer. He then moved across to Mana Music Publishing, which his dad Chris founded, before also founding Native Tongue. Gough has been working full-time at Native Tongue since 2005. While living in Japan in the early '90s, Matt Tanner worked as a tour manager before returning to Australia and starting Milefire Management, an artist and tour management company. He also started Casadeldisco Records during this time before joining Native Tongue in 2010. 

THE YEAR THAT WAS

Under the leadership of Gough and Tanner, Native Tongue experienced another stellar year in 2018 with new signings including writer/producer Kon Kersting (co-writer of Gold-certified Mallrat single Groceries), Japanese Wallpaper and Phantastic Ferniture. Boasting strong relationships with major music supervisors in the US, UK, Canada and Europe to extend the global reach of their clients, Native Tongue pride themselves on being more proactive than their competitors. In 2018, the company teamed up with The Push initiative Music Under Wings to launch Native Tongue Songwriters Stream, which paired four emerging songwriters/producers with mentors. Last year Native Tongue also added a long list of companies to their sub-publisher client list, including Concord Music (the fifth largest music company in the world). 

2018'S CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT?

Tanner: "Having one of our writers Stu Crichton work on Kygo's Stargazing, which has sold almost one million units and racked up 14 Gold or Platinum certifications worldwide."