Amit Dubey
Music Business Strategist | Founder, Beat Street Music & Publishing
Overview
Amit Dubey is a Music Business Strategist with over two decades of experience helping creators, music companies and rights holders build stronger, more sustainable and commercially resilient music businesses. His work combines strategic advisory with expertise in rights management, publishing, metadata and royalty systems to help clients unlock the long-term value of their music assets.
With experience spanning radio, television, metadata infrastructure and copyright administration, Amit brings together creative insight, operational expertise and strategic thinking. Working across multiple sectors of the music industry has given him a unique perspective on why creative success and commercial success are often separated by gaps in business systems rather than talent.
He believes that many of the music industry’s biggest challenges are not creative – they are structural. Unclear ownership, fragmented rights information, inconsistent metadata and inefficient publishing workflows continue to limit the commercial potential of music assets. His work focuses on helping creators and music businesses address these challenges by building stronger rights infrastructure, improving data integrity and creating systems that support long-term value.
Career & Experience
Amit began his career in radio with Radio City and Radio One, working as a radio jockey and producer. This phase built a strong foundation in music programming, audience behaviour, and content cycles.
He later moved into television as Creative Director at Sri Adhikari Brothers Group, where he led music strategy for large format shows featuring artists such as Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra. This role combined creative direction with execution at scale.
His transition into metadata and music technology began at Gracenote, where he worked on improving catalogue accuracy and deploying music data systems for Indian repertoire. This marked a shift from content to the underlying infrastructure that powers discovery, rights management, and royalty flows.
At The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS), as Head of Music Documentation, Amit led a significant transformation in how rights were recorded and managed. He helped move workflows from manual, paper based systems to structured digital processes aligned with global CISAC standards. This improved accessibility and accuracy for rights holders and contributed to stronger royalty tracking and collections. He also conducted workshops to help creators better understand publishing and digital systems.
Beat Street Music & Publishing
Beat Street Music & Publishing was founded to help creators, rights holders and music businesses make better strategic decisions in an increasingly complex music industry.
While the company provides expertise in publishing administration, rights management, metadata governance and catalogue strategy, its broader focus is helping clients build more valuable music assets through structured systems, informed decision-making and long-term business thinking.
Rather than simply managing rights, Beat Street works to strengthen the underlying business infrastructure that supports music assets. This includes improving rights documentation, metadata integrity, publishing workflows and royalty systems to improve operational efficiency, strengthen commercial clarity and maximise long-term music asset value.
By combining strategic advisory with practical execution, Beat Street helps clients build music businesses that are better organised, commercially resilient and prepared for future opportunities.
Academic & Industry Engagement
Amit engages with academic institutions and industry forums, sharing practical insights on music publishing, metadata, and royalty systems. His sessions focus on helping creators, students and emerging music professionals understand how rights, publishing and metadata influence long-term commercial success.
Industry Impact & Vision
Amit’s work is driven by the belief that strong music businesses are built on more than creativity – they are built on clear ownership, trusted data and informed strategic decisions. Through his work with creators, music companies and rights holders, he has helped strengthen rights management, publishing administration, metadata governance and royalty systems that support sustainable long-term growth.
He believes the future of the music industry will belong to organisations that treat music not only as creative expression, but also as a valuable business asset. As technology, artificial intelligence and new commercial models continue to reshape the industry, success will increasingly depend on strong rights infrastructure, transparent governance and strategic decision-making.
Through Beat Street Music & Publishing, his vision is to help build a more efficient, transparent and commercially sustainable music ecosystem, one where creators, rights holders and music businesses are empowered to maximize the long-term value of their music assets.
Through this work, he aims to help independent and underrepresented creators build music assets that are discovered, protected and fairly compensated over time.
Connect with Amit Dubey
The music business is evolving rapidly through technology, artificial intelligence, new business models and changing rights ecosystems.
I regularly share practical insights, industry perspectives and strategic thinking on music business, publishing, rights management, metadata, catalogue strategy and the future of the global music industry.
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