Better Noise Music

Better Noise Music is the rebranded and re-organized^[2] record label founded in 2006 by Allen Kovac, CEO of 10th Street Entertainment. The label was previously known as Eleven Seven Label Group with Eleven Seven, Five Seven and Better Noise Records as imprints. They are an artist development label, developing new bands in the rock music genre.^[3] The label recently announced an expanded alliance with FUGA^[4] and was named 2019 Active Rock Label of the Year for the second consecutive year.^[5] In early 2020, Kovac launched sister company, Better Noise Films.^[6]

Better Noise Music
Parent company	Better Noise Entertainment
Founded	2006 as Eleven Seven Music
Founder	Allen Kovac
Distributor(s)	FUGA (Downtown Music Holdings) (worldwide)[1]
Genre	Hard rock heavy metal indie rock alternative rock
Country of origin	United States
Location	New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee; Miami, Florida, Toronto, Canada; London, England; Berlin, Germany; Sydney, Australia
Official website	betternoise.com

The Eleven Seven Music label was the home of recording artists Papa Roach, and others.^[3]

History

Eleven Seven Label Group

Eleven Seven Label Group was founded in 2006 by Allen Kovac, CEO of 10th Street Entertainment, as the American parent company of a group of rock and alternative rock record labels. It is seen as a successor to Kovac's earlier label, Beyond Music, which existed between 1998 and 2002.^[7]

Eleven Seven Label Group was named Billboard magazine's Rock Label of the Year in 2010.^[8]

In 2009, Eleven Seven Label Group created an alternative/indie sub-label called Five Seven Music for alternative rock bands^[9] such as Just Loud, Bleeker, Romes and Dirty Heads. The latter had three Top five Billboard alternative chart albums.^[3] Better Noise Records, another home for hard rock acts, was founded in 2015 as part of Eleven Seven.^[10]

Eleven Seven expanded its base from New York City and Los Angeles, with the opening of international offices^[3] in Toronto, Canada and London, England in 2012, Sydney, Australia and Berlin, Germany in 2019, Paris, France in 2020 and Nashville, Miami in 2021.^[11] The company entered into a global partnership with Marshall Records in 2018 in order to bring Marshall artists to North and South America via Eleven Seven's distribution system.^[12]

In October 2019, Eleven Seven Label Group rebranded all the labels under the umbrella (Eleven Seven, Five Seven and Better Noise) to the new name of Better Noise Music, and all releases since have been released under the label Better Noise Music.^[13] Two months later, it signed a global marketing and distribution deal with FUGA, the Netherlands-based subsidiary of AVL Digital Group (itself a subsidiary of Downtown).^[14]

In May 2023, Allen Kovac became Chairman of Better Noise, moving up President Dan Waite to the CEO position, and Steve Kline from COO to President/COO.^[15]

Roster

Current

• All Good Things
• As Lions
• Asking Alexandria
• Atlas Genius
• Awolnation
• Bad Wolves
• Bleeker
• Cory Marks
• Classless Act
• Crossbone Skully
• Deuce
• Dirty Heads
• Eva Under Fire
• Finish Ticket
• Finger Eleven
• Fire from the Gods
• Five Finger Death Punch
• The Funeral Portrait
• From Ashes to New
• The Hu
• Hyro the Hero
• Nevrlands
• Nothing More
• Rews (Marshall Records distribution deal)
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Tempt
• Danny Worsnop

Former

• Anavae
• Apocalyptica
• Art of Dying
• Attica Riots
• Bang Bang Romeo
• Buckcherry
• Charm City Devils
• Diamante
• Escape the Fate
• The Exies
• Hellyeah
• In Flames
• Islander
• Jason Hook
• Marion Raven
• Mötley Crüe (as the distributor of Mötley Records)^[16]
• My Secret Circus
• Papa Roach
• Pop Evil
• Press to MECO (Marshall Records distribution)
• Rews (Marshall Records distribution)
• Romes
• Sixx:A.M.
• Trapt

References

1. "Allen Kovac's Better Noise signs global marketing and distribution deal with FUGA". Music Business Worldwide. December 11, 2019.
2. Variety Staff (October 30, 2019). "Eleven Seven Label Group Rebrands As Better Noise". Variety.
3. Reesman, Bryan (December 13, 2016). "Eleven Seven Music's Role In Saving Rock: 'We Realized the Major Labels Were Giving Up on It'". Billboard. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
4. Cooke, Chris (December 13, 2019). "Better Noise Ramps Up Its Alliance with Fuga". Complete Music Update.
5. Staff, All Access (December 10, 2019). "Better Noise Music Nabs #1 Mediabase Rock Label For Second Year". All Access.
6. Vlessing, Eitan (April 16, 2020). "Music Producer Allen Kovac Launches Better Noise Films". The Hollywood Reporter.
7. Martens, Todd (November 25, 2006). "The Buck Doesn't Stop Here". Billboard. Vol. 118, no. 47. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 49. ISSN 0006-2510.
8. Nicholson, Jessica (September 27, 2018). "Hard Rock Label Eleven Seven Music Launches Nashville Venture With Flagship Artist Cory Marks". Music Row magazine. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
9. "Eleven Seven Creates Five Seven For Alternative Acts". allaccess.com. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
10. "DAN WAITE NAMED MD OF ELEVEN SEVEN LABEL GROUP IN EUROPE". Music Business Worldwide. June 20, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
11. Sutherland, Mark (July 19, 2017). "Dan Waite joins Eleven Seven Label Group as MD of E7LG-Europe". Musicweek. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
12. Paine, Andre (May 7, 2018). "'It's a great opportunity to join a winning team': Marshall Records partners with Eleven Seven Label Group". Music Week. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
13. Payne, Chris (October 29, 2019). "Eleven Seven Label Group Rebrands as Better Noise Music: Exclusive". billboard. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
14. Stassen, Murray (December 11, 2019). "Allen Kovac's Better Noise signs global marketing and distribution deal with FUGA". Music Business Worldwide. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
15. "Dan Waite named Better Noise Music CEO, Steve Kline becomes President; company founder Allen Kovac is now Chairman". Music Business Worldwide. May 18, 2023.
16. "Mötley Records". discogs.com. Retrieved January 12, 2019.

External links

• Official website