An artist manageent agreement is the contract between the artist and the person or company they choose to manage their career. This is a template for an exclusive artist management contract for a term of three years.In this video you're going to learn what to include in a management contract between the artist and the manager. Artist agreements outline the terms and conditions of the artistic partnership and allow each party to understand what they are responsible for in the endeavor. Below are standard clauses found in a typical agreement, but it should serve simply as a guide to understanding artist management contracts. 11 contracts that every artist, songwriter and producer should know. So here's the first one: management contracts. David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter, musician and actor.