Artist managers are the true Swiss Army Knives of the music industry. A few weeks ago, we spoke to a couple of artist managers about their many varied responsibilities, the importance of a strong artist-manager relationship, and more.

Since then, we’ve had more artist managers reach out to us, ready to share their wisdom and experience with us all. One thing that we’ve found throughout this process that no two artist managers are the same. They all carry different responsibilities, which may even vary from client to client. Even so, there are a couple of universal details which can’t be ignored:

Management is a partnership between the manager and the artist, and relationships are everything.

Today, we have two more artist managers in our midst to share their perspectives, and they are:

• Alex Halloran, Founder of Help The Bear Records and an artist manager with AGD Entertainment.
• Nicolas Larsson Billett, CEO of Midas Music, Inc.