User:Freddo2010/intact - Razor Boy Music Publishing Sweden

Razor Boy Music Publishing Sweden is an independent Swedish music publishing company, which also handles management services for recording artists.Razor Boy launched its operations on June 1, 2008 and is founded and owned by Fredrik Olsson and Anders Bagge. The goal is to achieve optimal efficiency and creativity in a small publishing company with a small organization by focusing on the music and artists, with a select number of handpicked songwriters, producers and artists. Razor Boy is developing songwriters, pitching songs, working creatively and intimately with other songwriters, producers, record companies, management and artists with co-writes and projects worldwide.

Razor Boy has since the start contracted a number of talented songwriters and artists, such as Mim and Liv Nervo, from Australia with a number of hits (David Guetta/Kelly Rowland, Kesha, Kylie Minogue, Pussycat Dolls,Armin van Buuren a.o.) to their credit and a great career on the rise. Didrik Thott is another talented songwriter from Stockholm whose merits include cuts with many international stars. Another signing is with the talented artist and songwriter Pernilla Andersson who has established herself as one of the most respected swedish singer/songwriters.Razor Boy also have a number of other songwriters/producers as well as the rock band Apollo Drive signed to the publishing company. Apollo Drive are also signed to Razor Boy Management.

Razor Boy’s primary objective and ambition is to find new songwriters/artists and thus expand the catalogue with high-quality and exciting music, domestically and internationally. Razor Boy is an aggressive, goal-oriented publishing company that works with record companies and management companies on a global scale to position their music with various artists. Razor Boy also works with the film/TV industry, advertising agencies, music supervisors, the Internet and computer games to spread and position the music of its songwriters. Furthermore, they have a company named Razor Boy Management that manages the careers of recording artists. In addition to this, Razor Boy have a consulting business in which they assist record companies in development of artists and creating and organizing productions.

Razor Boy also produces its own artists and delivers finished masters to record companies. Razor Boy also works as an A&R source for record companies. Additionally, the company produces music tailor made for commercials, feature films and TV.

FREDRIK OLSSON CEO and co-founder of Razor Boy Music Publishing AB.

For the past 20 years, Fredrik Olsson has built his position as one of the most experienced players in the Swedish music industry. He manages Razor Boy’s day-to-day operations. Fredrik Olsson has a long and diverse background in the music industry. Among other posts, he has held senior A&R and marketing positions at various record companies and spent several years as an A&R executive at music publishing companies. He started his career at Planet Records & Music, after which he worked at MCA/Universal, Scandinavian Records and EMI Music Publishing Scandinavia. He has achieved success with a number of artists, songwriters and producers throughout the years. Among those was Anders Bagge whose collaboration and long-standing reltionship with Fredrik Olsson led to a joint decision to launch Razor Boy Music Publishing AB. Their concept was to create a fresh, new and modern music publishing company for songwriters, producers and artists where a well-balanced and select roster of people work together in an intimate and creative environment with great passion for music.

ANDERS BAGGE Songwriter, producer and co-founder of Razor Boy Music Publishing AB.

For the past 20 years, Anders Bagge has also established himself as one of the most successful songwriters and producers in the Swedish music industry. His resumé is impressive, particularly on the international scene, working with such artists as Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Nick Lachey, Janet Jackson, Santana, Jessica Simpson, Enrique Iglesias, Take That and numerous others.

In Sweden, Anders Bagge was involved at an early stage with Robyn and Meja’s first international sales successes. Since then, he has maintained his position as one of Europe’s most successful producers and songwriters. Anders’ first chart success in the US was with the boyband, 98 Degrees, with whom he co-wrote and produced the major hit single “Because Of You”, which spent five weeks in the Top 3. Their debut album sold more than eight million copies. Anders also works actively with Razor Boy Music Publishing’s songwriters and artists.

During the last 2 years Razor Boy has achieved success with hits and cuts with artists such as David Guetta/Kelly Rowland and the world wite hit "When love takes over", Kesha, Kylie Minogue to name a few.