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 Court Filings Say 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
Yewande Coker 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
Yewande Coker Sauti Sol Announced Leaving Universal in 2022. Their Copyright Line Said Otherwise September 18, 2026
Yewande Coker Ms Gideon Signed to Sony Music Africa in January 2026. The Credit Line on Both Her Releases Since Names a South African Company, Not a Namibian or Pan-African One September 18, 2026
Yewande Coker Tems Owns The Leading Vibe UK Limited Alone. It Has Not Appeared on a Release Since Her 2021 RCA Deal. September 17, 2026
Yewande Coker Spaceship Incorporated Limited and Spaceship Publishing Limited Are Controlled by Burna Boy and His Mother, UK Register Shows September 17, 2026
Yewande Coker Timaya’s DM Records Has Switched International Distributors Three Times Since 2020. None of the Switches Were Announced September 17, 2026
Yewande Coker Didi B, 92i Africa and Universal Music Africa: A 2021 Signing, a 2024 Lawsuit and a 2026 Settlement September 17, 2026
Yewande Coker Waka Music Limited Licensed 18 Wendy Shay and Fameye Releases to ONErpm Between 2023 and 2025. The Credit Reads ‘Exclusive License’, Not a Sale. September 17, 2026
Yewande Coker Mayorkun’s Masters Were Licensed, Not Sold. Every Release Since 20 August 2021 Reads ‘Sony Music West Africa, Under Exclusive Licence From Avante Digital Concepts’ September 17, 2026
Yewande Coker Niniola Signed With Kobalt for Publishing in 2017. Her Masters Have Answered to One Label the Whole Time, and Its Co-Owner Just Died September 16, 2026
