Deal sheet
- Status
- Announced by Mavin Records' own newsroom on 15 April 2022. One contemporary trade report (Music In Africa) dates the unveiling a day earlier, 14 April 2022; Mavin's own post is dated the 15th. Not amended, denied or clarified by either party since. Held, on every dated catalogue credit this desk obtained, from the debut EP released the same day through a live EP released 7 September 2026.
- Parties
- Mavin Records, Mavin Global Holdings Limited
- Amount
- N/A Not disclosed. Mavin's own announcement names no contract term, advance, royalty rate or exclusivity period. No trade report reviewed by this desk names a figure either.
- Rights covered
- Sound-recording (phonogram) credit on Boy Spyce's master recordings. Apple Music's own (P) line names Mavin Global Holdings on every one of 19 solo or featured Boy Spyce releases this desk checked directly, running from the 15 April 2022 debut EP to the 7 September 2026 "RED PILL (Live)" EP, with no exception found on that service. Deezer's own catalogue API, checked independently across all 24 of the same artist's albums, shows one exception and one naming shift: the exception is a 9 November 2022 various-artists posse cut, "Won Da Mo," from Mavin's Chapter X compilation, credited to Platoon rather than Mavin on both Deezer and MusicBrainz, consistent with the same date and label appearing on this desk's own file for fellow Mavin signee Bayanni, who also features on that track; the naming shift is that Deezer's "label" field read the trade name "Mavin Records" from 27 January 2023 to 3 May 2024, then switched to "Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" beginning with the first Deezer-dated release after 5 July 2024, five weeks after UK Companies House recorded UMG SPV Holdings Limited's acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Mavin Global Holdings Limited on 31 May 2024 (this desk's own afw_deal 4353). Apple's (P) line did not show this shift: it read "Mavin Global Holdings" before, during and after that date throughout. No publisher or publishing administrator is named for Boy Spyce's songwriting in any source checked.
- Territory
- Not disclosed by Mavin's announcement or by any trade report obtained. Mavin Records and Mavin Global Holdings operate from Lagos; Mavin Global Holdings Limited is registered in England and Wales. Boy Spyce's catalogue is distributed globally on Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify and other standard DSPs; no distributor is named in any source checked.
- Announced
- 2022-04-15
- Primary document
- Official newsroom
- Sources
- Mavin Records' own newsroom, "Welcome, Boy Spyce," 15 April 2022: introduces him as the label's latest signee alongside a same-day self-titled EP. Names no contract term, consideration or quote from Don Jazzy or any Mavin executive. · Music In Africa, 19 April 2022, by Gabriel Myers Hansen: dates the unveiling 14 April 2022 (one day earlier than Mavin's own post) and reports Don Jazzy's quote that he first messaged the artist on Christmas Day 2019. Names no contract term or figure. · Apple Music, Boy Spyce (self-titled EP), 15 April 2022, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2022 Mavin Global Holdings" · Apple Music, "Folake," 25 January 2023, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2023 Mavin Global Holdings." Deezer's label field for the same release (album 394693027) reads "Mavin Records," the first divergence between the two services found in this record. · Deezer catalogue API, "Folake," label field "Mavin Records," read 9 November 2026, against Apple's "Mavin Global Holdings" (P) line for the same release dated the same day. · Apple Music, "I'll Be There," 31 January 2025, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2025 Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" · Apple Music, "Pepe," 7 December 2023, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2023 Mavin Global Holdings" · Apple Music, "Igboro," 23 January 2026, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2026 Mavin Global Holdings Ltd, Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" · Apple Music, "Shout," 19 September 2024, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2024 Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" · Apple Music, "Arise" (with Falz), 27 March 2026, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2026 Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" · Apple Music, "RED PILL" EP, 29 May 2026, (P) line read directly: "(P) 2026 Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" · Deezer catalogue API, full Boy Spyce discography (artist ID 128146382, 24 albums), read 9 November 2026, used to build the release-by-release label-field table in this record · UK Companies House PSC filing for Mavin Global Holdings Limited (company 11517267), naming UMG SPV Holdings Limited as sole controller from 31 May 2024. Previously verified by this desk for afw_deal 4353 and re-cited here for the dated boundary around the Deezer label-field shift. · Background on "Won Da Mo," 9 November 2022, confirming it as a various-artists lead single from Mavin's Chapter X compilation featuring Rema, Boy Spyce, Crayon, Bayanni, Magixx, LADIPOE, Ayra Starr and Johnny Drille, explaining the single Platoon-credited exception in this record.
Read this before citing: This record documents a sound-recording (phonogram) credit, not a legal determination of who owns Boy Spyce's masters: the credit line is DSP catalogue metadata, and no recording contract, assignment or administration agreement was obtained by this desk. Three things could not be established: the contracting legal entity named in Boy Spyce's own recording agreement (Mavin Records is a trading name; Mavin Global Holdings Limited is the UK holding company; MG Entertainment Nigeria Limited is the Nigerian operating subsidiary this desk has found named on other Mavin artists' catalogues, such as CupidSZN and Lovn, afw_deal 8365; no source checked names which of these, if any, is Boy Spyce's actual counterparty); any consideration, royalty rate or contract term; and Boy Spyce's publishing arrangement, which no source addresses. The one-day discrepancy between Mavin's own 15 April 2022 announcement date and Music In Africa's 14 April 2022 report is noted but not resolved. The apparent handover in Deezer's label field, from "Mavin Records" to "Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" in the weeks after UMG's 31 May 2024 share acquisition of Mavin Global Holdings Limited, is this desk's own observation from reading Deezer's catalogue API directly; Deezer does not publish a reason for the change, Apple's own (P) line shows no equivalent shift at any point, and no party has stated that the change reflects, or does not reflect, a change in who holds the recordings. This record does not allege wrongdoing by Mavin, Universal Music Group or Boy Spyce.
