Skip to content

Music news, business and culture.

Join Newsletter
Join Newsletter
Label

Warner Records Inc.

Based in
Los Angeles, United States
Website
warnerrecords.com

Warner Records Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated recorded-music subsidiary of Warner Music Group Corp. It appears by that exact name in Warner Music Group’s subsidiary list filed with the SEC. From April 2026 it replaced Sire Records in the phonogram credit on Omah Lay’s releases alongside Lagos label KeyQaad.

More from United States

Full directory

Technology

Orfium

Rights-management technology company founded in Los Angeles in 2016. Licenses the PRS for Music repertoire to music users across Africa under a partnership announced in April 2023.

Los Angeles, United States orfium.com

Label

Def Jam Recordings

Hip-hop and R&B label under Universal Music Group, active in Africa via the 2020 Def Jam Africa division and a 2022 joint venture with Lagos/UK-based NATIVE Records.

New York, United States defjam.com

Music group

BMG

Nashville (global headquarters); Berlin (European headquarters); London (UK registered office at Floors 1-3, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, SW1V 2SA), United States bmg.com

Pick your tempo

Who owns what, who got paid, and who is about to. The business behind African music, told like it is actually interesting (because it is).

  • The deals and catalogue sales nobody put out a press release for
  • Chart moves and streaming numbers we actually fact-checked (wild, we know)
  • Fresh names added to the directory, vetted before you ever see them

Free forever Ghost us anytime, one click

Get the inside track from Afrobeats Wire

Choose your speed. We will handle the rest.

How fast do you want it?

Your inbox is sacred. This address is used for the newsletter and nothing else, never sold, never passed on. Privacy policy.

Popular right now

BusinessMusicCultureDataNewsTechnology