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
Yewande Coker Major League DJz Signed to Atlantic Through a Loan-Out Called Aggrey Space. No Release Has Named Either Since January 2024. September 24, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Khaligraph Jones’s Phonogram Credit Read ‘Brian Omollo/TML’ Until 2022. Since April 2025 It Names ONErpm, and the Exact Wording Changes Release to Release September 23, 2026
Yewande Coker Kamo Mphela Owns Her Masters Through Her Own Imprint. Africori Has Distributed Every One of Them Since 2021, Through Warner’s Full Takeover of the Distributor September 22, 2026
Yewande Coker EMPIRE Formalises Its South Africa Push. California’s Filings Show Ghazi Shami Holding Every Officer and Director Slot, With No Outside Board Seat September 22, 2026
Yewande Coker Falz’s BahdGuys Has Owned His Masters Since 2009. Four Different Distributors Have Passed Through the Same Catalogue, and Not One Handoff Was Announced September 22, 2026
Yewande Coker Bella Shmurda’s Masters Sit With Dangbana Republik. The ONErpm Exclusive Licence Line Disappeared From His 2026 Releases. September 22, 2026
Kwame Mensah Universal Music Group licensed its catalogue to Mdundo for ‘key African territories’ in July 2022 September 22, 2026
Yewande Coker KiDi Left Lynx Entertainment in 2025. His 2026 Masters Read ‘Black Boy Joy, Under Exclusive Global License to Encore Recordings’, and Ten Lynx-Era Releases Now Carry a Waka Music Credit September 22, 2026
Yewande Coker Who Owns Teni’s Masters? Sugar Mummy Does. Four Companies Have Licensed or Distributed Them Since 2024 September 21, 2026
Yewande Coker Virgin Music Named Reekado Banks a Nigeria Launch Partner in 2023. His Catalogue Has Run Through Three Other Companies Since, None of Them Announced September 21, 2026
Yewande Coker Jnr SA’s Recorded Catalogue Moved From Universal to Sony When Kabza De Small Signed Him to Tech Hub September 21, 2026
Yewande Coker Paradise Sound System Claimed an Exclusive Licence to Zakes Bantwini’s Ghetto King. Apple Music’s Credit Line Names Universal, Not Paradise. September 21, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Music Entertainment Africa Has Distributed Tyler ICU Since 2020, and the Licensor on the Credit Line Changed From New Money Gang to Baby Blue September 21, 2026
Yewande Coker Davido Said Every DMW Artist Would Move to Nine+ Records in April 2024. Peruzzi’s Masters Dropped the DMW Credit in 2021 and Have Read ‘Exclusive License to ONErpm’ Since August 2022. September 21, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Universal Music France Promised Caroline France Would Distribute Every Aristokrat Artist in 2020. No Verified Release Has Ever Named It. September 20, 2026
Yewande Coker DBN Gogo’s Zikode Records Carries a Universal Music Credit. The Registries Do Not Agree on It September 20, 2026
Yewande Coker Universal Music Group Bought Chabaka Music in August 2023. Its 2026 Def Jam North Africa Launch, Covering the Same Region, Never Mentions It. September 20, 2026
Yewande Coker Teddy Afro Terminated His Sewasew Multimedia Contract and Returned 33m Birr September 20, 2026
Kwame Mensah gamma. Acquired Vydia in December 2022. Zagadat Capital Is Not Named in Vydia’s SEC Filings September 20, 2026
Yewande Coker UnitedMasters and Sarz’s 1789: a distribution licence, not a stake in the company September 20, 2026
Yewande Coker Aristokrat Sold Burna Boy’s Early Masters to Spaceship Music in 2024. A 40 Per Cent Shareholder Is Suing to Undo It. September 19, 2026
GIMS’s Masters Now Credit Black Belt and Name Believe’s AllPoints as Exclusive Distributor. The Imprint That Held Them for Five Years, Géante Rouge, Is Not a Registered French Company. September 19, 2026
Yewande Coker Reservoir Media Acquired Rights to Lebo M’s Publishing Catalogue in December 2024. Not the Lion King Masters, Which Disney Was Never Selling September 19, 2026
Kwame Mensah Mr Eazi Launched the Africa Music Fund With 88mph in July 2020, Targeting $20 Million September 19, 2026
Kwame Mensah Crunchbase Dates Audiomack’s Only Funding Round to August 2018. Its Own SEC Filing Puts the Money in November 2017. September 19, 2026
Kwame Mensah MUSIC Put More Than $25 Million Into LVRN in January 2023, Earmarked in Part for West Africa. Its First Nigerian Signing Carries an LVRN Label Credit, Not the Publishing Deal Most Coverage Named. September 18, 2026
Yewande Coker KeyQaad Says Omah Lay’s 2026 Album Came Out Via Sire Records and Warner Records. Warner’s SEC Filing Lists Only One of Them as a Company. September 18, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Music Entertainment Africa Licensed Alikiba’s Masters From KingKiba Music in 2016. It Never Owned Them, and Since 2021 the Credit Reads Ziiki Media Alone September 18, 2026
