MTS Management Group

PA · US

MTS Management Group is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania artist-management, publicity, and promotion firm founded in 2010 by Michael Stover, an Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate (Music and Video Business) and 30+ year music industry veteran. The firm — which also operates MTS Records, an indie label with Sony/AWAL distribution — focuses on independent artists across country, rock, pop, gospel, blues, R&B, Christian, jazz, electronic, and classical, and bills itself as offering major-label-style exposure 'on a shoestring' budget. Services include publicity and promotion campaigns, social-media marketing, Spotify playlist promotion, press-release writing and distribution, SEO, sync licensing for TV/film/commercials, and full artist-management consulting. Per the firm's own About page, MTS Records has charted 100+ Top 40 New Music Weekly country singles including 15 #1s, plus 8 Music Row chart entries and 2 Top 10 Billboard hits. Michael Stover won the 2019 IMEA Best Manager award and is a 2020 Hermes Creative Awards and dotComm Awards winner. Roster has included Neil Turbin (original Anthrax vocalist), Billy Gilman (platinum country), Bonnie Tyler, Rhonda Vincent, Doug Kistner (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Bjorn Skifs (Blue Swede), Margaret Dorn, Robert Michaels (Juno winner), and dozens of charting independent artists across genres. Profiled in Music Connection's 'Up Close' column and in industry press at Disrupt Magazine and MusicGateway. Primary contact: michael@mtsmanagementgroup.com.