Music Business News: Africa

Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’

Music lyric NFT collection is called An Electro Revival, in collaboration with Ghanaian visual artist, Afroscope

As new Shazam charts launch in 17 countries including Nigeria and Ghana, Apple Music hails app’s role in discovery of African music globally

Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 2018

Sony Music Publishing opens Nigeria office, appoints Godwin Tom as MD

Exec was most recently CEO of talent management company iManage Africa

ONErpm has conquered Brazil’s streaming market. Now it’s taking on the world.

Founder Emmanuel Zunz explains his expansion plans for one of LatAm's most successful distribution and services companies

African Music service Mdundo reached 20.3m Monthly Active Users last month, up 74% since June 2021

Mdundo's biggest country for Monthly Active Users is Nigeria, with a total of 4.9m

Sony Music enters exclusive partnership with Egypt’s Craft Media to ‘sign Arabic superstars’

Craft Media was founded by prominent Arabic producer Hamdy Badr

Universal Music Group strikes licensing deal with African music service Mdundo

Mdundo reports to have 17 million active monthly users across Africa

Audiomack expands licensing agreement deal with Universal Music Group, covering Africa, the UK and Canada

The deal makes UMG content available to Audiomack subscribers in countries across the African continent, the UK and Canada