Music Business News: Egypt

Deal includes both publishing and master rights to his catalog

Liliana Abudalo appointed Head of Label & Artist Solutions, MENA and Celine Hitti named Head of Artist Services, MENA

Sony has also signed what it calls a 'forward-looking multi-album deal' with the artist

Companies will jointly work on local talent discovery, development, music production, marketing and promo, live events, and brand partnerships

Charts aim to provide official rankings of the top streaming tracks in countries across the MENA region

Deals include catalog acquisition of content production and distribution company RE Media, and the catalog of Egyptian rap duo El Sawareekh

Craft Media was founded by prominent Arabic producer Hamdy Badr

Reservoir and PopArabia have also signed Egyptian rapper and singer Mohamed Ramadan to a worldwide publishing deal