Seeker Music, Boutique Music Company Led By Chart-Topping Songwriter Evan Bogart, Launches with Christopher Cross, Run The Jewels, and More

Founded in Los Angeles in 2020 - where Seeker will be opening a studio space and creative campus in 2023 - Seeker is a catalog and frontline-based company that brings that creator’s perspective to the worlds of publishing, records, management, and sync.

After only two years in business, and without any publicity, the company’s catalog boasts 11,000 copyrights and master recordings, including classic copyrights performed by the likes of Drake, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, Rihanna and more. That a brand-new company has developed a catalog like that, that quickly, is thanks in part to the visionary approach the team takes to catalog acquisition and marketing.

Read more at Billboard: Can Evan Bogart's Seeker Music Become the Next Great Independent Music Company?

Every Seeker acquisition meets two criteria: First, it needs to be something Bogart, and his creative team, are passionate about – such as a catalog of songs he wished he had written, or projects he wished he had worked on. "As a creative myself, I've only found myself excelling when I got to work on things that inspired me,” Bogart says. Second, the team needs to see intrinsic creative opportunity. “We treat every catalog like it's a brand new artist/writer/producer that we just signed,” Bogart says. “Because you know what? It’s new and exciting for us.” He wanted to bring that same energy to Seeker.

Following those two principles, Bogart began building a roster that now spans from Christopher Cross and Run the Jewels to songwriters such as Mozella (“Wrecking Ball”), Brian Alexander Morgan (SWV’s “Weak” & “I’m So Into You”), and Sam Watters (Color Me Badd, Jordin Sparks “Battlefield”), to name a few. On an institutional level as well, Seeker has made strategic acquisitions from boutique publishing houses across genres, from a large share of Nashville’s country-focused Combustion, including 70 #1s, to select writers’ catalogs from UK’s hip-hop-leaning Notting Hill. 

Fully immersed on the frontline side, too, Seeker takes the same individualized and passion-based approach. “Most publishing companies are in either the market share game or the quantity game,” Bogart says. “They sign as many things as they can and hope that one or two things foot the bill. And the only time they ever pay attention to their songwriters is when they're trying to sign them, when they have a hit, or when their deal is coming up for renewal.” With Seeker, Bogart is bucking those trends by taking a boutique approach to build a company creators will implicitly trust. “We understand what songwriters’ needs are and how to support them, because there’s a songwriter running the company.”

And in addition to working with individual songwriters, Seeker's also forged partnerships with fast-rising Danish music publishing, management and creative licensing company Tigerspring, whose clients include hitmakers Sylvester “Sly” Sivestren (Maneskin “SUPERMODEL”, Dua Lipa “We’re Good”) and Tommy Baxter (Ritual, Dua Lipa, 6lack); as well as the LA-based music company AntiGravity, which specializes in the creation of music for sync, as well as artist management.