(09.12.2016)
Markus Hartmann (COO & Director Music Starwatch Entertainment), Georg Listing, Bill Kaulitz, Tom Kaulitz (Tokio Hotel) and Erik Jülich (Head of Marketing Music Label Starwatch Entertainment)
Tokio Hotel Sign at Starwatch
After the signings with Gregor Meyle and Joel Brandenstein, the ProSiebenSat.1 label Starwatch Entertainment is now also contracting the band Tokio Hotel.
The long-term cooperation begins with the new studio album “Dream Machine”, which is due to be released in March 2017. On 12th March, a tour of the formation in Europe, which is presented by handwerker promotion, will also start in London. The marketing of the band’s fifth album is scheduled to begin with an unnamed single in the Christmas season. Tokio Hotel have sold more than seven million albums in 68 countries.
“Tokio Hotel is an absolute special case of German pop culture and is one of the real superstars of our country,” says Markus Hartmann, COO & Director Music Starwatch Entertainment. “We are delighted that an exceptional act such as Tokio Hotel has also given us confidence and opted for a partnership that is characterized by transparency, short distances and marketing competence.” Finally, Starwatch can offer artists “a tailor-made collaboration, as few players in the market,” says Hartmann. “We are confident that the new, fantastic album ‘Dream Machine’ will also be successful in the rest of Europe, in addition to the local market.”
According to Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel, the band was looking for a partner “who can make us easy, creatively trust us and offer the greatest possible freedom. We found this partner in Markus Hartmann and the Starwatch team.” And his brother Tom Kaulitz adds, “We as human beings and artists change every day, just like the music business, and we want to work exclusively with partners who understand this, have the courage to innovate and are ready to take a new path to go with us. ”
Tokio Hotel are already cooperating with the ProSiebenSat.1 subsidiary Studio71. Since 2015 the multi-channel network of the station group has been managing the online video channel TokioHotel TV.