Warner Chappell Music (WCM) has struck a brand new partnership with Analog Metaverse, a boutique rights administration firm and music writer based by Grammy Award-winning producer Salaam Remi.
The collaboration will see WCM collectively administer the vast majority of Analog Metaverse’s in depth music catalog, which incorporates works by Remi himself and music legends equivalent to Dennis Brown, Don Blackman, Bobby “Digital” Dixon, and Terri Walker.
Based in 2022, Analog Metaverse says it reimagines the standard rights administration mannequin. The corporate says it ensures artists, creators and estates obtain their justifiable share whereas maximizing the worth of their works for generations to come back. Led by Remi, Kwame Kandekore (Head of Authorized and Enterprise Affairs) and Josephine Westphal (Vice President of Royalties and Administration), Analog Metaverse affords a set of providers together with licensing, movie/TV placements, artist administration, royalty assortment, and enterprise affairs.
The Analog Metaverse catalog, curated by Remi and his group over the previous two years, contains greater than 2,000 songs spanning varied many years and genres. Notable tracks within the catalog embrace Lady On Hearth by Alicia Keys, Cash In My Pocket by Dennis Brown, All I Need Is You by Miguel and J. Cole, Fu-Gee-La by The Fugees, and Right here Comes the Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze, which not too long ago topped the US iTunes Reggae Songs Chart. The catalog additionally options the Ivor Novello Award-winning music Stronger Than Me by Amy Winehouse, together with eight different co-writes between Winehouse and Remi.
Remi, a ten-time Grammy nominee and Grammy Award winner, brings a wealth of expertise as a report producer and music government to the desk.
“Having the advantage of being a songwriter and writer myself, I absolutely perceive the significance of getting companions who not solely admire the fantastic creations of the icons from the previous few generations but in addition may help us carry them into the long run,” Remi mentioned.
“My Analog Metaverse group—Kwame, Josephine, and I—acknowledge how helpful companions like {Warner Chappell Co-Chair and CEO] Man Moot and the whole Warner Chappell group are in shepherding these classics to new audiences.”
Moot added: “I’ve personally identified Salaam for greater than three many years, and it’s such an honor to be entrusted to shepherd not solely his personal life’s work, however that of legends like Dennis Brown. Carianne [Marshall, WCM Co-Chair/COO] and I are very intentional concerning the catalogs we work with and actually take into consideration how we are able to develop and have a tendency to them, each right now and for the years to come back.”
“There’s loads of synergy between our method and Analog Metaverse’s mission, and it’s nice to be becoming a member of forces to assist writers and their estates understand their full potential.”
“There’s loads of synergy between our method and Analog Metaverse’s mission, and it’s nice to be becoming a member of forces to assist writers and their estates understand their full potential.”
Man Moot, Warner Chappell Music
For WCM, the partnership marks its newest after signing a deal final week with 300 Publishing, the publishing division of Warner Music Group label 300 Leisure, to collectively signal each rising and established songwriters.
Lower than a month in the past, WCM turned the unique world admin associate of Tom Petty’s storied music catalog, which covers Petty hits together with Wildflowers, Free Fallin’, Studying to Fly, Refugee, Right here Comes My Lady, and I Gained’t Again Down.
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