Atlantic Records In The News

Peermusic sues Sony Music Publishing for cut of Lizzo’s About Damn Time

Peermusic and Malcolm McLaren's estate claim they are owed an 8% cut of royalties due for a sample used in the hit track

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Corey Williams upped to VP, Business and Legal Affairs, Rights & Clearances for Republic Records, Def Jam Recordings and Island Records

Williams joined UMG in 2015 as Director of Business & Legal Affairs and was promoted to Senior Director of Business & Legal Affairs soon after joining the company

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Warner Music’s WMX launches visual podcast series exploring The Notorious B.I.G.’s final album

Series is entitled Iconic Records: Life After Death

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Mateo Dorado joins Atlantic Records as Senior Director, A&R

Dorado joins Atlantic from Alamo Records where he signed rapper Rod Wave

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Position Music sells minority stake to Vesper, whose founders were involved in Kobalt investment

Most historical Kobalt investors exited the company following its majority sale to US-based Francisco Partners in 2022, a deal believed to be worth around USD $750 million

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‘We take a great deal of pride in pushing individual and collective boundaries.’

20 years ago ATC transformed itself from a boutique ticketing and marketing agency to a management company. Here, MBW interviews three of its senior execs...

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After raising $100m last month, Multimedia Music acquires catalog of Hollywood composer Trevor Morris in eight figure deal

Company has deployed over $120m on acquisitions since launching 15 months ago

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‘Until there is a Black British superstar that everyone in the building gets behind, in the same way that they’ve done with Ed Sheeran, Adele and Dua Lipa, then there is no change.’

Adrian Sykes talks to David Miller about his career, how and why he now lives and works in the States, and the problems with the UK industry…