The Circuit Group announced a new label services and rights management offering aimed at independent labels and artists seeking operational support without giving up ownership of their catalogs.
The service launched February 26, 2026, and it was positioned as an “IP-first” infrastructure layer that can sit behind an existing label brand, which kept the label’s public identity intact while outsourcing back-end services.
In plain terms, The Circuit Group said the goal was to offer major-label-level tooling and execution while maintaining control of intellectual property with the creator or rightsholder. Dean Wilson, CEO of The Circuit Group, framed the launch as a response to what he described as a structural tradeoff in the market, where access to infrastructure has often come with ownership concessions.
What the service covered for labels and artists
According to the announcement, the platform offered end-to-end support across distribution, rights management, royalty accounting, publishing administration, marketing, and strategic consultancy. That list mapped to the parts of a label operation that tend to create bottlenecks when an independent team scales, especially accounting, rights tracking, and publishing workflows.
The release also listed additional services that aimed at growth and execution, including DSP pitching, playlist strategy, sync licensing, A&R support, DJ and radio promotion, marketing release strategy, project management, release schedule management, and Web3 platform services.
The positioning here was broad on purpose, since the company framed the platform as something that can support multiple revenue streams tied to a label’s releases and associated assets.
Track record and current label clients
The Circuit Group said the platform had already been running internally for the past 24 months, with established workflows and operational infrastructure. The announcement stated it currently supported more than 20 independent labels, and it provided examples including Black Book Records, Catch & Release Records, COS Recordings, DHB Records, Diviine, Plant X, Famous When Dead Records, CDC, New World, Konkrte, Techne, Horizn, Eardrums, Kopa Records, Blowout Beats, and Hell Bent.
That client list mattered because it suggested the company had been testing the systems in real release cycles rather than launching from zero, and it also signaled that the service targeted labels that already operated at a steady pace.
Leadership team and how to learn more
The company outlined a senior leadership team that included Dean Wilson (CEO), James Sutcliffe (Global COO), Harvey Tadman (Co-President), David Gray (Co-President and Head of Publishing), Simon Birkumshaw (Director of Operations, Label Services), Charlie Tadman (Director, A&R), Francis Brady (Rights and Admin Assistant), and Bianca Price (Social Media Manager).
For background, The Circuit Group described itself as a management-led collective focused on helping artists and songwriters retain ownership and control of their intellectual property, and it cited the group’s founding partners as Dean and Jessica Wilson plus Brett Fischer, David Gray, and Harvey Tadman.
More info: https://www.thecircuitgroup.com/beat-switch-music-services
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
