Warner Music Group has expanded its licensing settlement with Audiomack, a music streaming and discovery platform, to 47 new nations.
The partnership, which started in 2019 and was Audiomack’s first licensing take care of a significant music firm, now consists of varied territories the place Audiomack says “listeners are already extremely engaged”.
The UK, France, Italy, Germany, the Caribbean, Mexico, Uganda, and Zimbabwe are among the many newly added areas within the expanded settlement.
These extra markets be a part of present territories, together with the US, Canada, Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa.
The whole Audiomack catalog of WMG artists for the extra territories has already been added to the service and is now accessible to listeners.
WMG’s expanded take care of Audiomack follows the latter firm’s latest partnership with Saregama, touted as India’s oldest label, to carry “1000’s” of Bollywood hits and regional language tracks to the platform’s international listener base.
Audiomack just lately hit 10 million each day energetic customers globally, as confirmed by Audiomack Founder Dave Macli in a LinkedIn publish in November 4.
Audiomack additionally confirmed that it had 36 million month-to-month energetic customers
Launched in 2012 by Dave Macli and David Ponte, Audiomack says its catalog consists of music from all three main labels and Merlin. It additionally has partnerships in place with LVRN and DistroKid.
The platform claims to help “half one million energetic creators” and likewise says that it’s ranked because the No. 1 music streaming app in eight African nations.
“This expanded settlement deepens our dedication to connecting artists with followers worldwide and making music accessible on a worldwide scale.”
Allan Coye, WMG
“At WMG, we worth partnerships with revolutionary corporations like Audiomack that share our imaginative and prescient for driving music discovery and amplifying rising expertise,” mentioned Allan Coye, EVP, International Head of Recorded Music Enterprise Growth, WMG.
“This expanded settlement deepens our dedication to connecting artists with followers worldwide and making music accessible on a worldwide scale.
“We stay up for persevering with to construct on this partnership and convey extra music to audiences all over the world.”
“Audiomack has advanced into a worldwide streaming service in each sense of the phrase.”
David Ponte, Audiomack
David Ponte, Audiomack CMO, added: “Audiomack has advanced into a worldwide streaming service in each sense of the phrase.
“Within the final 5 years, we’ve established our workplace in Africa, executed campaigns throughout a number of continents, and showcased rising expertise from numerous genres.
“Our mission is to present customers worldwide entry to music shaping international tradition. The Warner Music Group library, with its many gifted artists, is of course a vital a part of that imaginative and prescient.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
