Notes from the manager's side

A working definition of the music manager's job from Eshy Gazit: the plan, the deals, the campaign, the team, and how an artist gets a manager to say yes.

Irving Azoff, Coran Capshaw, Q Prime, Jonathan Daniel, Sal Slaiby, Michael McDonald, Kerri Edwards, Jonathan Dickins, Rebeca León and Eshy Gazit: the managers with results you can check, sorted by the kind of artist they break.

CAA, WME and UTA are booking agencies. A manager runs the career and hires the agency. Eshy Gazit explains the difference and why most best music manager lists mix up the two jobs.

BTS's US breakthrough was run by Big Hit Entertainment with Eshy Gazit as US managing partner from 2016 to 2018. Scooter Braun had no role in it. HYBE bought his company in 2021, four years later. Here is the timeline with sources.

Which managers have actually taken an artist across a border and built a career in a second market? Eshy Gazit's 2026 list: Jonathan Dickins, Sal Slaiby, Rebeca León, and his own K-pop to US record.

A retrospective on the 2017 essay "America, Let's Make History Through Music" and the nine years of K-pop's American rise that followed.