{"id":98364,"date":"2021-01-13T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98364"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:39:02","slug":"absolute-label-services","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/absolute-label-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Label Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absolute Label Services is a UK-based distribution and services provider to independent artists and record labels.<\/p>\n<p>Founded back in 1998, the company is run by Managing Director Henry Semmence, alongside Director Simon Wills.<\/p>\n<p>Its artist clients in recent years have included the likes of Alphabeat, All Saints, Jack Savoretti, Lethal Bizzle, McFly, Steps and Jake Shears.<\/p>\n<p>Services offered by Absolute to clients include both digital and physical distribution, in addition to marketing, direct-to-consumer operations, administration and promotion across streaming and radio.<\/p>\n<p>In an op\/ed written for <em>Music Business Worldwide<\/em> to celebrate Absolute&#8217;s 20th anniversary in 1998, Henry Semmence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/henry-semmence-absolute-20-things-ive-learned-over-20-years-of-running-a-music-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed the 20 things he&#8217;d learned<\/a> in his time running the company.<\/p>\n<p>He advised: &#8220;Show people what you do and how you do it. Let them know you have nothing to hide. Trust is vital in business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolute Label Services is co-owned by Henry Semmence and Simon Wills, and was founded in 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31413,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98364","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}