Create Music Group Lands Number 2 Spot on Inc. 5000, Becoming First Music Company Ever To Land In Top 5

(LOS ANGELES, CA  August 12, 2020)  Inc. magazine today revealed that Create Music Group has landed the Number 2 spot on its annual Inc. 5000 List, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Not only are they the fastest growing media company on the list, they are also the first music company to ever land a spot in the Top 5 of the annual business ranking.  Create Music Group is also the Number One fastest growing company in California, a feat that Inc. profiled earlier this year HERE.

How Create Music Group Became Inc.’s No. 1 California Company: Proof You Can Profit From YouTube

By the mid-2010s, big-name artists like Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney were railing against YouTube: The site was home to loads of unauthorized uploads of their songs, and even the authorized versions paid paltry royalty sums. It was an even harder battle to fight for the much less famous–and less lawyered-up–musicians in the industry. So, a lot of them simply put music on YouTube for free and focused on other ways to make money.