Deal sheet
- Type
- Licensing
- Parties
- Flyboy I.N.C., G-Worldwide Entertainment, EMPIRE
- Amount
- Not disclosed
- Rights covered
- WHAT CHANGED. Fourteen Kizz Daniel sound recordings first released between 1 December 2017 and 31 March 2024 now carry the phonogram credit "Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd" on Apple Music. Until late September 2026 the same recordings carried "Flyboy I.N.C", and before that "Flyboy Inc". No party has announced the change. The Internet Archive brackets it to a five-day window: the superseded Apple Music entry for the album No Bad Songz (collection ID 6769689937) was captured live on 22 September 2026 reading "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C", and the entry that replaced it (6815051416) was captured on 27 September 2026 reading "(P) 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd". The same before-and-after is documented on two further titles: the single No Do (6768917244, captured 2 August 2026, "(P) 2017 Flyboy I.N.C"; 6815035030, captured 30 September 2026, "(P) 2017 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd") and the Davido collaboration One Ticket (6768917451, captured 21 June 2026, "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C"; live entry 6815035498 now reads "(P) 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd").
THE FOURTEEN. Verified live on 11 November 2026, identically in the US, Nigerian and British storefronts, all in one narrow Apple collection-ID band (6815035030 to 6815051416): No Do (1 Dec 2017), 4DAYZ (1 Feb 2018), For You feat. Wizkid (15 Jun 2018), One Ticket (2 Nov 2018), the 20-track album No Bad Songz (30 Nov 2018), Madu (8 Feb 2019), Poko (15 Mar 2019), Fvck You (15 Mar 2019), Eko (7 Jun 2019), Pak 'n' Go (7 Jun 2019), Pah Poh (4 Oct 2019), Jaho (15 Dec 2019), Currently (29 Jan 2021) and Flex (31 Mar 2024).
THIS IS A RE-DELIVERY, NOT AN EDIT. Apple issues a new collection ID when a catalogue is re-delivered, orphaning the old one. All five earlier Apple entries for No Bad Songz (1441527510, 1604106840, 1738837786, 1841391715, 6769689937) now return HTTP 404 and are absent from the iTunes Lookup API; only 6815051416 resolves. The product barcode, however, did not change: Apple's archived page carried UPC 5050580700604 in both October 2021 and March 2022, and Deezer returns the same 5050580700604 for the live product today. So the same commercial product was re-supplied under a new store entry with a differently worded owner name, not replaced by a new product with a new barcode.
WHAT DID NOT CHANGE. EMPIRE, Kizz Daniel's distribution, recording and publishing partner since June 2020, appears on none of the fourteen re-delivered credits. It also never appeared on them: every archived capture of this catalogue from 8 June 2019 to 22 September 2026 reads "Flyboy Inc" or "Flyboy I.N.C" alone. This back catalogue predates the EMPIRE arrangement and has never been credited to it. EMPIRE's position on new releases is unaffected: the most recent release checked, Owo Oluwa (15 September 2026), reads "(P) 2026 FlyBoy INC / EMPIRE" on both Apple Music and Deezer, as does every Kizz Daniel release from King of Love (25 June 2020) onward.
THE ALBUM HE SAID HE GOT BACK IS NOT IN THIS SET. On 9 June 2025 Kizz Daniel publicly stated that he now owned every song on his 2016 debut album New Era plus the singles Yeba and Sofa, recorded for his former label G-Worldwide Entertainment (this desk's record 2803). New Era was not re-delivered in the September 2026 batch. Its superseded Apple entry (1302462707, now 404 and absent from the Lookup API) was captured on 19 August 2019 reading "(P) 2016 G-Worldwide Entertainment", with the artist name then rendered as "Kiss Daniel". The live entry (1817530403, first archived 30 January 2026) reads "(P) 2025 G-Worldwide Entertainment": the same named owner, with the phonogram year advanced from 2016 to 2025 on a recording whose stated release date is still 14 May 2016. Deezer's entry for the album (50711742, UPC 859723806532) also still reads "G-Worldwide Entertainment". Yeba (1302498170) and Sofa (1328686946) retain their original 2017-era collection IDs and their original "(P) 2017 G-Worldwide Entertainment" credits; neither was re-delivered. Seventeen months after the claim, two registries independently name G-Worldwide on the album, and the only movement visible on it runs in the opposite direction from a reversion.
TWO PARALLEL PRODUCTS FOR ONE SONG TITLE. Apple Music carries two live entries for a Kizz Daniel recording called 4Dayz, both dated 1 February 2018. Entry 1346028791 reads "(P) 2018 G-Worldwide Entertainment" and its single track runs 2 minutes 21 seconds; entry 6815035735 reads "(P) 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd" and its track runs 2 minutes 40 seconds. Deezer holds the same pair under two different artist entities: album 56821052 (label "G-Worldwide Entertainment", UPC 859725232155, artist rendered "Kiss Daniel") and album 1105983982 (label "Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd", UPC 5050580693357, artist "Kizz Daniel"). The Flyboy product is not new: its superseded Apple entry 1384479583 was captured on 8 June 2019 already reading "(P) 2018 Flyboy Inc", under the capitalised title "4DAYZ – Single". Two distinct products carrying two different owner names have therefore coexisted on the same stores for over seven years.
THREE SEPARATE SUPPLY CHAINS. Across the three registries checked, the catalogue sorts into three barcode families that do not mix: the G-Worldwide-credited recordings carry UPCs beginning 859723, 859724 and 859725 (eleven releases on Deezer, including New Era); the pre-EMPIRE Flyboy recordings carry UPCs beginning 5050580 (No Bad Songz 5050580700604, 4DAYZ 5050580693357); and the EMPIRE-era releases carry UPCs beginning 194690, 197342 and 199316. The prefix groupings are reported as observed co-occurrence only. No GS1 registrant lookup was performed and no prefix is attributed here to any named company.
ONE SHARED CHIEF EXECUTIVE. The two companies named across this catalogue are not at arm's length. Trade reporting dated 2 June 2023 records that Kizz Daniel hired Festus Ehimare, who performs as Emperor Geezy and founded G-Worldwide Entertainment, as chief executive of Fly Boy Inc, announced by the artist on the Power 105.1 programme Way Up With Angela Yee. G-Worldwide had sued him in 2017. No source found connects that appointment to the September 2026 re-delivery, and this record draws no connection between them.
- Territory
- Worldwide as displayed. Credit lines verified identical in the United States, Nigerian and British Apple Music storefronts on 11 November 2026, and on Deezer, which does not expose a per-territory label field. Both named companies are Nigerian: G-Worldwide Entertainment is a Lagos label founded by Festus Ehimare (Emperor Geezy); Flyboy I.N.C. is Kizz Daniel's own Lagos imprint, whose distribution, recording and publishing partner since June 2020 is EMPIRE, headquartered in San Francisco. No source states a territory or a term for any arrangement covering these recordings.
- Announced
- 2026-09-27
- Primary document
- Rights registry
- Sources
- Apple/iTunes catalogue registry, artist 981220084 (Kizz Daniel), full album-level pull of 94 collections from the US storefront, carrying the live phonogram credit on all fourteen re-delivered recordings and on the album New Era · Internet Archive capture, 22 September 2026, of the SUPERSEDED Apple Music entry for No Bad Songz. Phonogram credit in the page's own album object: "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C". This collection ID now returns HTTP 404 and is absent from the iTunes Lookup API. · Internet Archive capture, 27 September 2026, of the REPLACEMENT Apple Music entry for the same album. Phonogram credit: "(P) 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd". Five days after the capture above. Re-confirmed in a second capture dated 12 October 2026. · Internet Archive capture, 8 June 2019, of the original Apple Music entry for No Bad Songz: "(P) 2018 Flyboy Inc". Earliest archived credit for this album found. · Internet Archive capture, 27 October 2021, same entry: "(P) 2018 Flyboy Inc", with recordLabel "Flyboy Inc" and UPC 5050580700604 in the page's serialised album data. · Internet Archive capture, 10 March 2022, of the second Apple Music entry: "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C", recordLabel "Flyboy I.N.C", same UPC 5050580700604. Documents the Inc to I.N.C wording change and that the barcode did not move with it. · Internet Archive capture, 15 September 2024, third Apple Music entry: "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C". · Internet Archive capture, 8 December 2025, fourth Apple Music entry: "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C". Also captured 28 November 2025, identical. · Internet Archive capture, 2 August 2026, superseded entry for the single No Do: "(P) 2017 Flyboy I.N.C". Second title corroborating the change. · Internet Archive capture, 30 September 2026, replacement entry for No Do: "(P) 2017 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd". · Internet Archive capture, 21 June 2026, superseded entry for One Ticket (with Davido): "(P) 2018 Flyboy I.N.C". Third title corroborating the change. · Internet Archive capture, 19 August 2019, of the SUPERSEDED Apple Music entry for the album New Era, under the artist name then rendered "Kiss Daniel": "(P) 2016 G-Worldwide Entertainment". This collection ID now returns HTTP 404 and is absent from the Lookup API. · Apple registry, live, for the album New Era as delivered today: collection 1817530403, release date 14 May 2016, 20 tracks, "(P) 2025 G-Worldwide Entertainment". Phonogram year advanced to 2025, named owner unchanged. · Apple registry, live, for No Bad Songz as delivered today: "(P) 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd". · Apple registry, live, for the G-Worldwide 4Dayz product: "(P) 2018 G-Worldwide Entertainment", single track 1346028799 running 141.3 seconds. · Apple registry, live, for the Flyboy 4DAYZ product: "(P) 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd", single track 6815035739 running 160.0 seconds. Same stated release date as the entry above. · Internet Archive capture, 8 June 2019, of a superseded Apple entry titled "4DAYZ – Single" reading "(P) 2018 Flyboy Inc". Establishes the Flyboy 4DAYZ product existed alongside the G-Worldwide one from at least 2019. · Deezer catalogue API, independent commercial feed, live: No Bad Songz, released 30 November 2018, 20 tracks, label "Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd", UPC 5050580700604. Confirms the new owner name is not an Apple-only artefact and that the barcode is unchanged. · Deezer catalogue API, live: 4DAYZ, 1 February 2018, label "Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd", UPC 5050580693357, under artist entity "Kizz Daniel". · Deezer catalogue API, live: 4dayz, 1 February 2018, label "G-Worldwide Entertainment", UPC 859725232155, under the separate artist entity "Kiss Daniel". The parallel product. · Deezer catalogue API, live: the eleven releases held under the "Kiss Daniel" artist entity, all labelled "G-Worldwide Entertainment", all with UPCs beginning 859723, 859724 or 859725, including New Era (album 50711742, UPC 859723806532, released 14 May 2016). · Apple registry, Nigerian storefront, 94 collections: the fourteen "Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd" credits and the "(P) 2025 G-Worldwide Entertainment" credit on New Era are identical to the US storefront. · Apple registry, British storefront: same fourteen credits, identical wording. · MusicBrainz registry, live: one release, d162df16-9d67-4d55-82cf-a465d0cd2e61, dated 30 November 2018, label "Flyboy I.N.C", barcode 7316481317036. Disagrees with both stores on the label name and on the barcode. · UK Companies House advanced search, fetched 11 November 2026: four companies contain "Incredible Music" (INCREDIBLE MUSIC LIMITED 10416175, dissolved 17 December 2019; INCREDIBLE MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED 06839672; INCREDIBLE MUSIC & MEDIA LTD 16941991; INCREDIBLE MUSIC LIMITED 12905724). None contains "Flyboy". No UK registration for "Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd". · UK Companies House advanced search, fetched 11 November 2026: eleven companies contain "Flyboy", all dissolved, none a match. Closest by sector is FLYBOY RECORDS LIMITED, company 06492804, dissolved 18 May 2010. · Trade report dated 2 June 2023 that Kizz Daniel appointed Festus Ehimare, known as Emperor Geezy and the founder of G-Worldwide Entertainment, as chief executive of Fly Boy Inc, announced by the artist on Way Up With Angela Yee (Power 105.1). An aggregator post dates the same event to 6 January 2023; the discrepancy is unresolved. · Trade report carrying Kizz Daniel's 9 June 2025 statement in full, the source already cited on this desk's record 2803, included here because the present record tests that claim against the registries seventeen months later.
Read this before citing: WHAT THIS RECORD DOES NOT CLAIM. A phonogram credit on a streaming store is a label-supplied metadata field, not a deed, a register of title or a court finding. It is evidence of what a rights supplier told a store to display, on a date that can be documented. It is not proof of legal ownership, and a change in it is not proof that ownership moved. No transfer, assignment, sale, licence or settlement is asserted here, and none has been found. What is asserted is narrower and fully documented: the string displayed as the phonogram owner on fourteen recordings changed inside a five-day window, and the album at the centre of a 2025 public ownership claim was not among them.
"FLYBOY INCREDIBLE MUSIC LTD" IS NOT ESTABLISHED AS A NEW COMPANY. The desk deliberately does not treat the new string as a new legal entity. It may simply be the fuller registered name of the company already credited as "Flyboy Inc" and "Flyboy I.N.C", in which case the credit line became more precise rather than the owner changing. That is exactly the reading this desk applied to the "Mavin Global Holdings" to "Mavin Global Holdings Ltd" shift in afw_deal 9573, and it applies here. For that reason no new afw_company record was created for the name, and the existing Flyboy I.N.C. record is used as the party.
REGISTRY CHECKS ON THE NAME, AND THEIR LIMITS. UK Companies House advanced search returns no company whose name contains "Flyboy Incredible Music". Eleven companies contain "Flyboy": all are dissolved and none is a match (the closest by sector, FLYBOY RECORDS LIMITED, company 06492804, was dissolved on 18 May 2010). A search for "Incredible Music" returns four companies, none containing "Flyboy". Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission search at search.cac.gov.ng returned HTTP 403 to every automated request from this server and offers no public API, so the Nigerian register was NOT checked. That is an unperformed check, not a negative finding, and the company is Nigerian.
THE SWITCH DATE IS A BRACKET, NOT A FILING. The 22 to 27 September 2026 window comes from two Internet Archive captures of two different Apple Music collection IDs, which is strong but is still bounded by when a crawler happened to visit. The true change could have occurred on any day inside that window. The corroborating titles give wider brackets of their own (No Do: 2 August to 30 September 2026; One Ticket: after 21 June 2026). No filing, announcement or party statement fixes the date.
THE NEW ERA DELIVERY DATE IS AN INFERENCE AND IT STRADDLES THE CLAIM. The live New Era entry's collection ID, 1817530403, sits above Kizz Daniel's own 1814941577 (Uncle K: Lemon Chase, released 30 May 2025) and below 1818733206, an unrelated album archived on 15 July 2025. On the assumption that Apple issues collection IDs broadly in delivery order, that places the New Era re-delivery between roughly mid-May and mid-July 2025. Kizz Daniel's statement was made on 9 June 2025, inside that range. The desk therefore CANNOT say whether the re-delivery preceded or followed his statement, and does not guess. The only hard bounds are that it postdates the 19 August 2019 capture of the superseded entry and predates the 30 January 2026 capture of the live one. The "(P) 2025" year in the credit itself is consistent with a 2025 delivery.
THE TWO 4DAYZ PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE THE SAME RECORDING. The 19-second runtime difference (2:21 against 2:40) means the desk cannot establish from metadata alone that these are the same master. They may be an original and an alternate version, two different edits, or a re-recording. This record does not claim that one recording has two stated owners; it claims that two separately barcoded products for a song of that title, both dated 1 February 2018, carry two different stated owners and have coexisted since at least June 2019.
MUSICBRAINZ DISAGREES WITH BOTH STORES, ON THE NAME AND ON THE BARCODE. MusicBrainz release d162df16-9d67-4d55-82cf-a465d0cd2e61 (No Bad Songz, 30 November 2018) still carries the label "Flyboy I.N.C" and a barcode of 7316481317036, which matches neither Apple's archived 5050580700604 nor Deezer's live 5050580700604. Three registries, two barcodes and two label names for one album. MusicBrainz is community-edited and lags commercial feeds, so the divergence is most plausibly staleness plus a separate territorial or reissue barcode, but no source resolves it and the desk does not resolve it.
THE PUBLISHING SIDE WAS NOT CHECKED. No songwriter, publisher or administrator claim is made anywhere in this record. Four performing-rights and work registries were attempted from this server and none was usable: ASCAP's repertory API returned HTTP 403, SACEM's repertoire search returned a bare 301, GEMA returned HTTP 403, and CISAC's ISWCNet search API returned HTTP 500. Composition ownership on these recordings is therefore entirely unestablished.
NO PARTY HAS SPOKEN. No statement from Kizz Daniel, from Flyboy, from G-Worldwide Entertainment, from EMPIRE or from Apple has been found addressing the September 2026 re-delivery. Searches returned no announcement and no trade coverage of it. The desk has not obtained comment. The most recent relevant on-record item found is press reporting that the artist announced plans during 2026 to rebuild Flyboy INC and opened applications for roles in the company; no source ties that to the metadata change and this record does not tie them.
THE EMPEROR GEEZY APPOINTMENT DATE IS UNRESOLVED. One trade report dates the appointment to 2 June 2023; an aggregator post dates the same event to 6 January 2023. The desk could not establish which is correct and names neither as settled. The appointment is included as documented context about the relationship between the two companies, not as a cause of anything.
METHOD. Live credit lines were read from the iTunes Lookup API rather than from rendered store pages, for three storefronts (US, NG, GB), and found identical in all three. Historic credit lines were read from the raw archived HTML of Internet Archive captures, with each line verified as scoped to its own album by matching the surrounding JSON object's storeAdamID or playParams identifier to the collection ID under examination, so that credits belonging to carousel items elsewhere on the page could not be misread as the album's own. Independent confirmation of the live label name was taken from Deezer's catalogue API, which is a separate commercial feed from Apple's.
CARRIED FORWARD FROM RECORD 2803. That record's caveat already warned that a store credit may be stale rather than contradictory, and that the caveat cuts both ways. It still does. Nothing here establishes that Kizz Daniel's 9 June 2025 statement was wrong. What is newly established is that the metadata has now been actively rewritten twice in this catalogue since that statement, once on New Era in 2025 and once across fourteen other recordings in September 2026, and on neither occasion did the change move New Era out of G-Worldwide's name.
