Warner Records In The News

NLE Choppa sued by Atlanta rapper Kilo Ali for alleged copyright infringement

Warner Music Group, Alien Records and several others are also named in the suit

Ritch Sibthorpe named MD for Northern Europe and Australasia at hi-res music streaming service Qobuz

News comes nine months after the company raised $11m to fund its global expansion

Ericka Coulter joins Warner Records as SVP of A&R

Coulter was most recently VP of A&R at Epic Records

Sony Music buys majority stake in Todd Moscowitz’s Alamo Records for nine-figure sum

New York-based Alamo was founded in 2016 and has broken artists including Blackbear, Lil Durk and Rod Wave

Darcus Beese is joining Warner Music UK, launching a new JV label with major

Beese joins Warner after 13 years with Universal Music and Island Records

From Universal’s 10% sell-off to Sony Music under investigation: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest headlines from the past five days in the music industry

J Scavo joins Position Music as its GM, Recorded Music & VP of Marketing

Scavo will be guiding the Position Music strategy for its Recorded Music division

‘There is a huge opportunity here for music publishing A&R.’

Travis Rosenblatt, creator of A&R data platform Meddling, on how the power of publishing is about to change everything in the music industry