Kwame Mensah Avex USA Publishing and Coup D’Etat Music Signed Victony to a Publishing Joint Venture in 2023. The Entity That Signed Him No Longer Exists Under That Name. August 28, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Sony Music Publishing Signed Ghana’s E.L in February 2026. His Own VONation Label Still Owns the Masters. August 28, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Sony/ATV Signed D-Black to a Global Publishing Deal in 2020. The Label Deal He Announced Alongside It Never Surfaced. August 27, 2026
Yewande Coker Tresor Bought Back His Own Masters From Vth Season in 2024. Apple’s Catalogue Credits Corroborate It. August 27, 2026
Yewande Coker Universal Music Group Signed Tiwa Savage in 2019. By Late 2022, Her Own Everything Savage Copyright Line Showed She Was Gone. August 27, 2026
Kwame Mensah Cinq Music Signed a Distribution Partnership With Kenya’s Soul HQ in August 2026. No Money Changed Hands on the Record. August 27, 2026
Kwame Mensah Cinq Music Group Acquired D’Banj’s Catalogue in July 2026. Neither Side Named What Rights Changed Hands. August 27, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Sony Music Publishing Signed Ghana’s Lynx Entertainment in June 2024. The Label It Signed No Longer Manages Any Artist. August 26, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Trade Press Reported Asake Signed a Distribution Deal With gamma. in 2025. His Copyright Line Has Read EMPIRE on Every Release Since. August 25, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Tems Signed to RCA Records and Since ’93 in 2021. Her Pre-Signing Catalogue Still Sits With Her Own UK Company. August 25, 2026
Yewande Coker Burna Boy’s Masters Sit With His Own Company. Atlantic’s License Excludes Africa. August 24, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Wizkid’s Masters Belong to Starboy Entertainment Ltd. UK Companies House Dissolved the Company in June 2026. August 24, 2026
Yewande Coker Warner Music and Ziiki Media Signed Diamond Platnumz’s WCB-Wasafi to a 360 Partnership in 2021. Warner’s SEC Filings Have Never Listed It as a Subsidiary. August 24, 2026
Kwame Mensah CKay’s Masters Now Sit With His Own Company. AWAL Holds an Exclusive Licence, Not the Copyright. August 24, 2026
Kwame Mensah Warner Music Group Licenses Its Catalogue to Audiomack Across Africa, Then to 47 More Countries August 24, 2026
Amaka Nwosu Kobalt Signed Mr Eazi’s emPawa to a Worldwide Publishing Deal in 2020. It Administers the Catalogue. emPawa’s Own UK Company Owns It. August 24, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Music Publishing signs Gallo Music Publishers to a worldwide publishing administration deal that excludes Africa August 23, 2026
Yewande Coker Who Owns Tyla’s Masters? FAX Records, Under Exclusive Licence to Epic. The Roc Nation Signing Was Never Confirmed. August 23, 2026
Kwame Mensah Ticketmaster acquired Cape Town’s Quicket: Live Nation’s subsidiary list names five African companies the announcement did not August 23, 2026
Yewande Coker Def Jam Recordings Signed Adekunle Gold in March 2023. By 2025, His Own Label’s Copyright Line Showed He Was Gone. August 23, 2026
Yewande Coker Virgin Music Group Extended Its Global Distribution Deal With Gallo and Content Connect Africa. Distribution Moved, Ownership Did Not. August 23, 2026
Kwame Mensah Believe Went Fully Private in August 2025: A Founder-Led Consortium With EQT and TCV Now Controls the Company Behind TuneCore’s Africa Business August 23, 2026
Kwame Mensah Def Jam Signed a Joint Venture With Nigeria’s NATIVE Records in 2022. One Artist’s Masters Show What That Actually Means, and One Doesn’t. August 22, 2026
Yewande Coker Warner Music South Africa acquired Afrikaans label Coleske: Warner’s own filings name three South African companies August 22, 2026
Kwame Mensah Boomplay’s $20 Million Series A: The Investment That Didn’t Change Who Owns Africa’s Biggest Streaming App August 22, 2026
Kwame Mensah Kobalt Partnered With Nigeria’s Inner Circle Publishing in November 2025. Neither Side Named the Deal Type. August 22, 2026
Yewande Coker Sony Music France buys Lusafrica and Africa Nostra, the label and publisher holding Cesária Évora’s catalogue August 22, 2026
Kwame Mensah OSN takes control of Anghami for $38 million in cash plus the OSN+ contracts, handing a Kuwaiti pay-TV group the board August 22, 2026
Yewande Coker Trace, Africa’s Biggest Afro-Urban Media Group, Went From a Swedish Broadcaster to US Private Equity for €30m August 21, 2026
Yewande Coker Kobalt Changed Hands in July. The UK Register Names Brookfield and Larry Mestel, Not Primary Wave. August 21, 2026
