Music Business News: Ghana News Sony Music Africa strikes strategic partnership with Crux Global to support artists from Ghana Crux Global has been providing digital distribution services to local artists for over six years News Warner strikes partnership with Small World Records, founded by Ghanaian music entrepreneur SmallGod "SmallGod is a brilliant tastemaker, marketeer and visionary," said Max Lousada, CEO of Recorded Music at WMG Interviews ‘AfroFuture’s vision is to bring African art, cuisine, fashion, and music to a global audience.’ MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Abdul Karim Abdullah, Co-Founder and CEO of cultural entertainment platform AfroFuture News Drake sued for alleged copyright infringement over sample used on ‘Calling My Name’ Ghanaian rapper Obrafour has filed a lawsuit against Drake News Warner launches OUT OF ORDER, an emerging markets-focused record label led by Selina Chowdhury Label will highlight music from regions including Africa, India, the Middle East, Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Analysis News African music service Mdundo’s monthly active users reach 21.5m, up 107% YoY Mdundo has published its quarterly report for calendar Q3 2022 News Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’ Music lyric NFT collection is called An Electro Revival, in collaboration with Ghanaian visual artist, Afroscope Analysis News As new Shazam charts launch in 17 countries including Nigeria and Ghana, Apple Music hails app’s role in discovery of African music globally Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 20181 2 Next
News Sony Music Africa strikes strategic partnership with Crux Global to support artists from Ghana Crux Global has been providing digital distribution services to local artists for over six years
News Warner strikes partnership with Small World Records, founded by Ghanaian music entrepreneur SmallGod "SmallGod is a brilliant tastemaker, marketeer and visionary," said Max Lousada, CEO of Recorded Music at WMG
Interviews ‘AfroFuture’s vision is to bring African art, cuisine, fashion, and music to a global audience.’ MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Abdul Karim Abdullah, Co-Founder and CEO of cultural entertainment platform AfroFuture
News Drake sued for alleged copyright infringement over sample used on ‘Calling My Name’ Ghanaian rapper Obrafour has filed a lawsuit against Drake
News Warner launches OUT OF ORDER, an emerging markets-focused record label led by Selina Chowdhury Label will highlight music from regions including Africa, India, the Middle East, Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
Analysis News African music service Mdundo’s monthly active users reach 21.5m, up 107% YoY Mdundo has published its quarterly report for calendar Q3 2022
News Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’ Music lyric NFT collection is called An Electro Revival, in collaboration with Ghanaian visual artist, Afroscope
Analysis News As new Shazam charts launch in 17 countries including Nigeria and Ghana, Apple Music hails app’s role in discovery of African music globally Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 2018