Jerry Jeff Walker Estate Partners With Primary Wave & More Music Deals

Impartial music writer Main Wave Music has partnered with the property of nation/people singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker on Walker’s music publishing catalog, recording copyrights and artist royalties. The partnership supplies the Walker property entry to Main Wave’s advertising and marketing group and publishing infrastructure to work on new advertising and marketing, branding, digital, synch alternatives and movie/TV tasks. The deal additionally options an settlement for Walker’s recorded masters, in partnership together with his label Tried & True Music, to be launched and distributed by means of Solar Data; Solar Data will present general catalog advertising and marketing technique, together with streaming, social media advertising and marketing and bodily releases. The deal contains a few of Walker’s greatest hits, together with “Mr. Bojangles,” “Railroad Girl” and “Sangria Wine.” – Jessica Nicholson

AI-powered social music app Hook partnered with Glassnote Data so as to add new tracks from artists together with Tors, bby, Hayes Warner and Dylan Cartride to its library, with extra acts to be added quickly. Glassnote’s roster additionally contains Mumford & Sons, Infantile Gambino and Phoenix. Hook permits customers to remix present songs by dashing them up, slowing them down, mashing them up with different songs and extra to publish on social platforms, successfully opening up one other income stream for taking part artists. In an announcement, Glassnote founder/president Daniel Glass referred to as Hook “a complete resolution to the usage of remixed music throughout social platforms in a means that emphasizes artists’ management and compensation.”

Main music licensing platform Slipstream acquired Anthem Leisure‘s manufacturing music companies, together with U.S.-based Jingle Punks and 5 Alarm Music and U.Ok.-based Cavendish Music. The acquisition encompasses greater than 650,000 tracks together with music manufacturing capabilities. The acquisition was made attainable by financing and experience supplied by Pollen Road Capital, whereas Moelis & Firm served because the unique monetary advisor to Anthem on the negotiation. The acquisition represents a full-circle second for Slipstream co-founders Dan Demole and Jesse Korwin; Demole co-founded Jingle Punks and beforehand served as president of Anthem Music Group, whereas Korwin served as Jingle Punks’ MD. Anthem Leisure will make an funding in Slipstream as a part of the deal.

Reactional Music, which permits online game builders to create interactive music soundtracks of their gaming titles, struck a world licensing partnership with Naxos, a number one rights holder of classical and regional music. The 2 firms are additionally exploring a collaboration on the composition of interactive soundtracks that might permit players to personalize Naxos-owned music in actual time whereas taking part in, with out affecting the grasp recording. Reactional has beforehand struck licensing partnerships with firms together with Beggars Group, Hopeless Data, Hipgnosis Music Group and manufacturing music teams like APM Music, Soundstripe and Alibi.

World funding agency CVC has invested alongside KKR to help dwell leisure group Superstruct Leisure in its subsequent section of improvement. KKR acquired Superstruct, which owns and operates greater than 80 music festivals throughout Europe and Australia, in June 2024. CVC’s earlier investments embrace Stage Leisure, Formulation One, Ladies’s Tennis and LaLiga.

SoundExchange and the Societies’ Council for the Collective Administration of Performers’ Rights (SCAPR) introduced that SoundExchange has turn out to be the primary non-member collective administration group (CMO) to have the ability to create and concern worldwide performer numbers (IPNs) — distinctive common identifiers related to performers, created and administered by SCAPR, which are used to determine them in information exchanges with different CMOs globally. By way of the deal, SoundExchange will create and assign SCAPR’s IPNs to additional hyperlink performers to their recordings, thereby enhancing identification of their artistic contributions. “IPNs characterize one other device in our increasing arsenal serving to to get the precise individuals paid the royalties they deserve,” stated SoundExchange president/CEO Michael Huppe in an announcement.

Downtown-owned enterprise to enterprise distributor FUGA partnered with Manila, Philippines-based administration and manufacturing firm ASINTADA whereas saying new hires throughout the APAC area, together with Noorcahyo Istyabudi and Jaya Singh, who will lead enterprise improvement in Indonesia and South Asia, respectively. FUGA will present international distribution and bespoke advertising and marketing providers to ASINTADA, which may also have entry to FUGA’s developments and analytics platform. ASINTADA represents among the greatest hip-hop artists within the area, together with Filipino rapper Gloc-9 and rising OPM (authentic Pilipino music) expertise together with Shanti Dope, Move G and Skusta Clee. FUGA additionally introduced a partnership with the Jesuit Communications Basis, the media arm of the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus; Crown Studios Inc., a full-service expertise and administration company; and file label and manufacturing home 314 Studios.

World kids’s audio platform Yoto secured a $15 million funding bundle from HSBC UK‘s Development Lending Fund to help its worldwide development. The funding will permit Yoto, which relies within the U.Ok. and at the moment operates in 5 international locations, to increase its attain past these markets. Yoto moreover plans to increase the manufacture of its audio gamers and content material playing cards to fulfill rising demand. The corporate says it expects to double its income with the funding.