Kobalt Music Group has further expanded its available funds for acquisitions by more than $700m.
As well as announcing its inaugural $266.5m asset-backed securitisation transaction, Kobalt also has a new ...
This year’s Music Week Women In Music Awards, held in association with AIM and UK Music, might have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. But nothing could stop ...
These are, Kobalt founder Willard Ahdritz notes, “scary times”.
Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, Ahdritz, now chairman of the company, his new CEO Laurent Hubert and the entire Kobalt/AWAL ...
Music industry collective Music Declares Emergency (MDE) has amassed 2,000 signatories to its declaration of a climate and ecological emergency.
The project was announced earlier this summer with backing from ...
Kali UchisIn My Dreams (Virgin EMI)In Kali Uchis’ dreams, everything is wonderful. And why not? This skittering Damon Albarn collab is from the Colombian-American pop magician’s debut album, ...
The biggest change I’ve seen in the biz is…“Globalisation. Music is global and you have to work that way. Today, almost everyone sees the opportunity in streaming, they see ...
It was diversity – in the form of the recent Music Week Women In Music Awards – that set me thinking about the theme of this quarter’s column.
The winner ...
“I have no interest in trying to play games with numbers,” says Willard Ahdritz. “Like Amazon, we have been investing, investing, investing and growing. Of course, profitability, when you have ...
It’s been a huge year for Kobalt Music, from this month’s acquisition of Songs Music Publishing to big signings (including The Kooks, The Wombats and First Aid Kit) ...
Sas Metcalfe is coming home. Kobalt Music’s president of global creative is now so well-established in Los Angeles that many people probably don’t even realise she’s actually British.
But the ...
