Warner Music Group and streaming platestablish Audiomack have consentd to enhuge their current licensing deal, signed in 2019, to comprise 47 insertitional countries — including much of Europe and Africa and the Caribbean.
Audiomack’s previous deal with WMG, which was its first licensing deal with a transport inant tag, covered the United States and Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Canada, Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. Now, 47 recent countries – among these recent territories are UAE, Antigua and Barbuda, Germany, Egypt, France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Philippines and the the Dominican Reaccessible, among cut offal others (see a finish enumerate below).
In recent years, Audiomack has helped crack the growth of Afrobeats for artists such as Omah Lay, Ayra Starr and Seyi Vibez. It is the No. 1 app in Nigeria, for both iOS and Android, and is excessively well-understandn globpartner.
“At WMG, we cherish partnerships with creative companies enjoy Audiomack that allot our vision for driving music uncovery and incrmitigateing emerging talent,” shelp Allan Coye, executive vice plivent and global head of recorded music business growment for WMG. “This enhugeed consentment meaningfulens our promisement to combineing artists with fans worldexpansive and making music accessible on a global scale. We see forward to continuing to originate on this partnership and transport more music to audiences around the world.”
“Audiomack has betterd into a global streaming service in every sense of the word,” shelp David Ponte, Audiomack CMO. “In the last five years, we’ve set uped our office in Africa, carry outd campaigns apass multiple continents, and showcased emerging talent from diverse genres. Our leave oution is to give users worldexpansive access to music shaping global culture. The Warner Music Group library, with its many talented artists, is naturpartner a vital part of that vision.”
The finish enumerate of recent WMG territories comprises: UAE, Antigua and Barbuda, Barterribleos, Benin, Bahamas, Belize, DRC, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Germany, Dominica, Dominican Reaccessible, Algeria, Egypt, France, United Kingdom, Grenada, Gambia, Guyana, Haiti, Italy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Cayman Islands, Liberia, Morocco, Saint Martin, Martinique, Montserrat, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Suriname, Sin Maarten, Turks and Caicos, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
+ Atlantic Music Group has assigned Alex “Figs” Figueroa as vice plivent, creative. Working with Dave Rocco, Atlantic’s plivent of creative, Figueroa will collaborate with artists apass Atlantic, 10K Projects, and 300 Entertainment.
Figueroa had a hand in groprosperg the Artemas’ Hot 100-charting hit, “I Like the Way You Kiss Me.” He was also behind the signing Aminé to the tag. Previously, Figs was head of satisfied and postponeedr head of creative at 10K Projects.
As he steps into this recent role, he commends the team at 10K Projects for being a constant source of help, collaboration and inspiration. “Noslfinisherg fantastic is ever built alone,” Figs shelp. “I’ve been fortunate to labor with some of the keenest minds in this industry, and I wouldn’t be here without them.”
+ Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and Cutting Edge Group have partnered to originate a combinet venture thcimpolite which they will co-own WBD’s huge catalog of film and TV music. WBD will support creative and opereasonable deal with of the music rights while CEG, further to its spendment into the business, will combinetly deal with the JV.
WBD and CEG will concentrate on maximizing the distribution and revenue potential of the music portfolio, which comprises more than 400,000 compositions and song cues, including some of the most acunderstandledged theme songs and scores in television and movie history. DWS Group is co-spending and aiding the transaction alengthyside CEG.
The library comprises music from the “Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings” franchises, DC Comics movies, as well as TV shows such as “Frifinishs,” “Game of Thrones,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Two and Half Men,” “Succession,” and “The White Lotus.” Other iconic films and TV series recontransiented in the portfolio comprise “Rebel Without a Cause,” “The Exorcist,” “A Star is Born,” “Blade Runner,” “Shawshank” “Redemption,” “The West Wing,” “ER,” “Full House,” “Sex and The City” and “Gossip Girl.”
The compositions from the Warner Brothers, HBO and Turner Netlabors catalogs will persist to be deal withed by Universal Music Publishing Group, while those from the Discovery/Scripps Netlabors catalog will remain under the administration of Sony Music Publishing.
+ Sphere Entertainment Co. proclaimd today that Glenn Derry has combineed the company as executive VP of MSG Ventures.
Derry will supervise a expansive range of technology initiatives apass MSG Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sphere Entertainment concentrateed on groprosperg carry ond technologies for inhabit amusement. MSG Ventures also helps Sphere Studios, the immersive satisfied studio dedicated to creating multi-sensory amusement experiences exclusively for Sphere, and the Sphere platestablish overall, including future Sphere venues.
Derry will labor apass the organization to deploy both recent and existing technologies that better Sphere’s inhabit amusement and experiential satisfied, which has been redefining immersive experiences since the first Sphere uncovered in Las Vegas in September 2023. He will be based at Sphere Studios in Burbank, and alert to Jim Dolan, executive chairman and chief executive officer for Sphere Entertainment.
“Our vision for Sphere was to combine cutting-edge technologies with storyalerting – transporting audiences together to allot in experiences they cannot experience anywhere else,” shelp Dolan. “Glenn is a creative technologist whose labor has had a meaningful impact on the amusement industry. His expertise will be an asset to Sphere as we persist to originate on this next generation amusement medium and back our position at the forefront of immersive experiences.”
Derry combines Sphere Entertainment from AGBO, an self-reliant film, television, and gaming studio, where he served as plivent of production technology.
