Yewande Coker Warner Said Africori Would Keep Operating as a Standalone Entity Under Its Founder. The UK Register Dates His Board Exit to 3 April 2026, 77 Days Before Warner Announced It, and Africori Limited’s Two Remaining Directors Are Both in Britain September 29, 2026
Kwame Mensah Chike’s 2016 Universal Deal Was Reported as Nigerian. His Only Release Under It Credits South Africa. September 29, 2026
Yewande Coker Universal’s Kaka Empire Partnership Names King Kaka Personally, Not the Label. Two Releases Carry It, and His Newest Does Not. September 29, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Music Africa Does Not Own Don Laka’s Masters. Its Own Credit Line Says Bokone Does. September 29, 2026
Yewande Coker Odeal’s Masters Are Credited to His Own OVMBR Imprint. Since 2024 LVRN Shares the Line, and the UK Register Shows He Owns No More Than Half of the Recording Company. September 29, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Paid $430m for AWAL and Kobalt Neighbouring Rights. Kobalt Kept the Publishing and AMRA. September 28, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Music Entertainment and Crux Global Signed a Three-Tier Distribution Partnership for Ghana. No Equity, No Masters, No Disclosed Consideration. September 28, 2026
Yewande Coker Two Copyright Mortgages Recorded in 2010 Put the Fela Kuti Album Catalogue Up as Security. The Counterparty Was MRI Associated Labels, and No Release Has Ever Been Recorded. September 28, 2026
Yewande Coker Eddy Kenzo Says He Turned Down USD 1 Million From Warner Music. Eighty-Nine Releases Across Eleven Years Credit His Own Big Talent Entertainment, and the Grammy-Nominated Master Belongs to a Chicago Label. September 28, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Warner Chappell Music LTD Is a Copyright Claimant of Record on Rema’s “Calm Down”. Mavin Global Holdings’ Filing Address in the US Copyright Register Moved from Warner Chappell to Universal Music Publishing Group Between July and September 2025. September 28, 2026
Yewande Coker Riky Rick Signed to Sony Through Cotton Club Records in 2017. His Credit Line Has Named a Different Company, Anolabex (Pty) Ltd, Since September 2018 September 28, 2026
Yewande Coker Apple Credits Nomsa Mazwai as Composer on Black Coffee’s “Traveller.” A Criminal Complaint Says She Was Never Paid for It. September 27, 2026
Yewande Coker Who Owns Lojay’s Masters? Koratori Music, and the Credit Line Dates the Handover to September 2022 September 27, 2026
Yewande Coker Transsion’s Hong Kong IPO Filing Names Boomplay’s Whole Corporate Family, and Still Won’t Say Who Owns How Much of It September 27, 2026
Amaka Nwosu SoundExchange and SAMPRA Announced a Reciprocal Performer Agreement on 18 November 2024. SAMPRA’s Own Annual Reviews Show a Record Company Leg Already Running by 31 December 2022 September 26, 2026
Jonzing World Entertainment Ltd, UK Company 13751901, Was Struck Off the Register on 6 February 2024, Twenty Days Before Universal Announced Its Mavin Investment. Rema’s Copyright Line Has Named the Company on Nine Titles Since. September 26, 2026
Yewande Coker Warner Music Group Has Been Africori Limited’s Controlling Shareholder Since 20 December 2021, 23 Days Before It Announced the Stake. Warner’s Own SEC Exhibits Called the Company Mauritian for Two More Years. September 26, 2026
Yewande Coker Big Machine Music Signed Cape Town’s Will Linley For Publishing In May 2025. When Scott Borchetta Reacquired The Big Machine Records Name In February 2026, The Publisher Stayed With HYBE America. September 26, 2026
Yewande Coker Masterpiece YVK’s Masters Carried Kabza De Small’s Piano Hub for Four Years and Eight Months. Since the Universal Signing the Credit Reads ‘YVK Records / Universal Music (Pty) Ltd’, an Imprint Named in No Announcement and No Registry. September 26, 2026
Yewande Coker Kwesta’s Sony Licence Named Him Personally, Not A Company, For Seven Years. Since December 2022 The Credit Names Dope Dreams Co. (Pty) Ltd And Drops The Licence Wording. September 25, 2026
Yewande Coker Guchi’s Catalogue Has Carried ‘PG Records Entertainment / MAD Solutions LLC’ Since 2019. The Credit Vanished in 2024 and Returned in 2026. September 25, 2026
Yewande Coker Phyno’s Catalogue Has Carried ‘Penthauze / MAD Solutions LLC’ Since 2022. The Joint Credit States No Structure At All. September 25, 2026
Yewande Coker Master KG’s “Billionare Media” Credit Is Jon Delinger’s, Not a New Deal for Him September 25, 2026
Yewande Coker The Big Hash’s Masters Are Licensed To Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd, Not Owned By It. The Licensor Is His Own Company, And Its Name Changes Mid-Catalogue. September 25, 2026
Kwame Mensah Virgin Music Group Signed a Global Distribution Partnership With Ghana’s MiPROMO in October 2025. No Rights Changed Hands, and Ghana’s Own Company Register Cannot Confirm When MiPROMO Was Founded. September 25, 2026
Kwame Mensah Court Testimony Traces GHS 84.48 Million From Menzgold and Brew Marketing Into Zylofon Media September 24, 2026
Yewande Coker Partisan Records Licensed Femi Kuti and Mádé Kuti Recordings to Chocolate City for Nigeria. Six Editions Carry the Credit, They Exist in No Other Storefront, and Neither Party Announced It. September 24, 2026
Yewande Coker The EFCC Charged Jude Okoye and Northside Music With Laundering P-Square Royalties. His Brother Peter Then Admitted Under Oath He Kept Every Naira He Collected Too September 24, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Universal Music Africa’s 2021 Youssou N’Dour Deal Was Distribution, Not Ownership. The Credit Stops in December 2022, and 30 Catalogue Titles Reappeared in 2025 Under His Own Company. September 24, 2026
