Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Kobalt Music Group have reached a strategic cooperation to license and distribute the Kobalt publishing and AWAL recording catalogs on the Chinese streaming giant’s platforms.
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Kobalt founder and chairman Willard Ahdritz was the big keynote speaker for the second day of MIDEM’s Digital Edition.
In a remote session entitled The New Normal, Ahdritz addressed ...
MIDEM has launched its inaugural virtual conference (June 2-5), following the cancellation of this year’s event in Cannes.
While the move was forced on MIDEM due to Covid-19, director ...
MIDEM returns for a very different kind of conference.
Following the cancellation of the event in Cannes due to Covid-19, organisers have pulled together their first MIDEM Digital Edition.
Willard Ahdritz (pictured) and Laurent Hubert have spoken to Music Week about their new roles as chairman and CEO of Kobalt.
Hubert took over as CEO in January, with ...
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 ...
Kobalt has reported soaring revenues of $543 million (£439.7m) for the 12 months to June 2019 – an increase of 35.1% year-on-year.
The company’s gross collections across its label, publishing ...
Kobalt has named Johan Land as its next chief product officer. Kobalt’s current CPO, Simon Dennett, moves to a non-executive board seat at AMRA, Kobalt's collection society.
Prior to ...
Kobalt has promoted Sam Taylor to the position of EVP, creative. He joined the company as SVP, creative in 2016.
Over the past year, Taylor has been integral in ...
Glassnote president/founder Daniel Glass has told Music Week that he expects to see more labels follow them by teaming up with AWAL on distribution.
Glassnote moved from Universal Music ...
