Downtown-owned B2B distributor FUGA has shaped new international distribution and advertising and marketing offers with two impartial labels, increasing its presence in France and Belgium.
The corporate has teamed up with Report Makers, a Paris-based label based in 2000. Its roster of artists consists of Sébastien Tellier, Kavinsky, and Dita Von Teese.
The label, which was based with the aim of releasing Air’s soundtrack for Sofia Coppola’s 1999 movie The Virgin Suicides, has contributed to extra movie scores and is thought for its artist growth technique, bringing collectively lesser-known artists with established names like Man-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk), John Carpenter, Arthur Verocai, MGMT, The Weeknd, and MF DOOM.
Via the partnership, Report Makers will profit from FUGA’s providers for international distribution, advertising and marketing, digital accounts, and synchronization licensing.
“Partnering with FUGA begins a brand new section for Report Makers. A distributor with a robust worldwide community and who’s forward of its time is what the label wants to have the ability to showcase its catalog, in addition to the brand new skills from in every single place that we symbolize,” mentioned Marc Teissier du Cros, Co-founder of Report Makers.
“Partnering with FUGA begins a brand new section for Report Makers. A distributor with a robust worldwide community and who’s forward of its time is what the label wants to have the ability to showcase its catalog, in addition to the brand new skills from in every single place that we symbolize.”
Marc Teissier du Cros, Report Makers
Moreover, FUGA has partnered with Potion Data, based in 2014 by Belgian DJ and producer The Magician (Stephen Fasano).
The label’s catalog consists of The Magician’s gold-certified single Shy, international hit Daylight, and releases by artists like The Aston Shuffle and Soda State. The Magician can also be identified for releasing a remix of Lykke Li’s I Comply with Rivers in 2011, which sits at greater than 500 million streams on Spotify. Fasano established Potion Data to launch his personal music and promote different artists.
FUGA says Potion Data will profit from its experience in advertising and marketing technique, digital accounts, synchronization licensing, and distribution providers.
The most recent partnerships additional broaden Downtown’s presence in France. In 2021, Downtown Music Publishing signed a worldwide administration and providers deal with French artists AIR, which included the duo’s basic second album Moon Safari. Most not too long ago, Downtown Music Publishing shaped international agreements with French Contact artists Étienne de Crécy and Boombass, one-half of duo Cassius.
Report Makers and Potion Data now be a part of FUGA’s present roster within the area that already consists of Bendo Music, VIPMUSIK Data, Jaiye, Soundbirth and Underground Tekno.
“We’re very proud to be the chosen distribution associate for a number of the most famous labels within the French area who’ve a confirmed and longstanding historical past of excellence. We stay up for working carefully with each Report Makers and Potion Data’ groups and maximizing the attain of their music globally,” mentioned Dorothée Imhoff, Chief Business Officer of FUGA.
“We’re very proud to be the chosen distribution associate for a number of the most famous labels within the French area who’ve a confirmed and longstanding historical past of excellence.”
Dorothée Imhoff, FUGA
FUGA, which serves as a standalone enterprise inside Downtown’s suite of distribution and monetization choices, gives content material administration, workflow and distribution providers globally. Its latest shoppers and companions embody Singapore-based social music creation platform BandLab Applied sciences, TikTok for its SoundOn distribution service, Marathon Music Group, indie label Polyvinyl Data, specialist classical music firm Naxos Music Group, Berlin-based artist administration and label providers company Odyssey Music Community, and Austria’s Phat Penguin.
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