Funding
Access capital against qualifying music and catalogue without assuming that selling your masters is the answer.
- Catalogue advances
- Release and growth funding
- Licensing structures
- Flexible conversations around what you actually need
Independent funding & distribution
Funding Your Future.
Wavy provides independent artists and labels with money upfront against their music, alongside distribution, marketing and hands-on support for catalogue and new releases.
Already happy with your distributor? That does not automatically need to change.
More than capital
Money upfront. More than money afterwards.
Plenty of companies can provide capital. Wavy is built around what happens next. We help artists and labels use that funding intelligently, support the music around it and look for wider opportunities where we can genuinely add value.
Distribution
Worldwide digital distribution with a real person behind it, not an upload-and-forget relationship.
New releases, existing catalogue, artist projects and independent labels, supported with practical release thinking and direct communication.
Catalogue
Existing music can do more than sit online and collect streams. We look for ways to create new value around catalogue through funding, marketing, reissues, remixes, social campaigns and wider commercial opportunities.
What comes with the fund
Capital should help you move forward, not just move money around.
FundingMoney upfront against qualifying music and catalogue.
DistributionA hands-on home for catalogue and new releases where it makes sense.
MarketingPractical thinking around how the music can reach more people.
OpportunitiesRelationships across radio, live, sync, writing, production, publishing and beyond.
The person behind Wavy
20 years in music. Still excited by records.
I started as a DJ in a bowling alley, moved into booking and promoting, and over the last 20 years have worked around artists including FKA Twigs, Kate Nash, Craig David, Nile Rodgers, Bastille, Lianne La Havas and Anna Calvi.
Wavy grew out of that experience: funding and distribution with a human being on the other end of the phone, and a wider view of what can happen around the music.
Who we work with
Independent artists and labels building something.
You do not need to be enormous. But there needs to be something real for us to work with: music you control, existing income or momentum, and a clear reason for wanting capital or a more involved music partner.
Established catalogue
Your music is already earning and you want to unlock some of its value now.
Artists with momentum
You have an audience, music coming and want funding alongside practical support.
Independent labels
You control multiple releases or artists and want funding, distribution or a more commercially involved relationship.
How it works
Start with the music.
01
Show us the music
Send the artist or label, music links and a little about what you are looking for.
02
Show us the numbers
For funding, we need to understand the income generated by the music and the rights you control.
03
We look at the opportunity
We work out whether there is a sensible deal and where Wavy can add value beyond the capital.
Wavy Music
What could your music unlock?
Tell us what you have built and what you want to do next.
Apply for funding