Hipgnosis Songs has acquired a portfolio of 42 catalogues from Kobalt Music Copyrights for $322.9 million (£250.2m).
The investment was funded with the net proceeds from Hipgnosis’ equity fundraising in ...
Willard Ahdritz (pictured) and Laurent Hubert have spoken to Music Week about their new roles as chairman and CEO of Kobalt.
Hubert took over as CEO in January, with ...
These are, Kobalt founder Willard Ahdritz notes, “scary times”.
Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, Ahdritz, now chairman of the company, his new CEO Laurent Hubert and the entire Kobalt/AWAL ...
Kobalt has reported soaring revenues of $543 million (£439.7m) for the 12 months to June 2019 – an increase of 35.1% year-on-year.
The company’s gross collections across its label, publishing ...
Kobalt has promoted Julie Hurwitz and Rob Christensen to co-heads of sync and brand partnerships.
The pair will oversee Kobalt Music Publishing's global sync team with responsible for West Coast, ...
Kobalt has signed a deal with singer-songwriter and keyboardist Michael McDonald.
The worldwide agreement includes administrative, creative and global sync services for all of McDonald’s catalogue and future works.
Glassnote president/founder Daniel Glass and Kobalt founder/CEO Willard Ahdritz have hailed the new partnership between the companies as a game-changer for the independent music business.
Glassnote’s releases had previously been ...
This week’s Music Week cover story on Kobalt continues to cause a stir. As well as the magazine piece, founder/CEO Willard Ahdritz has sounded off about his publishing rivals, ...
“I have no interest in trying to play games with numbers,” says Willard Ahdritz. “Like Amazon, we have been investing, investing, investing and growing. Of course, profitability, when you have ...
Zach Katz says he was once given a choice by his father: either become a lawyer, or a doctor. So the journey that’s seen him travel to president, US repertoire ...
