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TuneCore

Self-service distributor owned by Believe, with offices in Lagos and Johannesburg.

Based in
Brooklyn, United States
Founded
2005

TuneCore is a self-service digital music distribution company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. It has been owned by the French company Believe since 2015 and distributes for independent artists on a flat-fee basis.

It qualifies here on a material, named African operation: TuneCore launched African operations in February 2021 with offices in Lagos and Johannesburg. Chioma Onuchukwu, based in Lagos, heads West Africa, covering Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia as well as Tanzania and Ethiopia, and Andile Mbete was later named Head of TuneCore Southern Africa, based in Johannesburg.

It is listed separately from its parent Believe because the African offices and country heads belong to the TuneCore operation specifically.

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