Impartial Latin music firm The Wave Music Group has signed a long-term distribution settlement with Capitol Music Group (CMG).
The cope with the Puerto Rico and Miami-based label was introduced on Tuesday (April 18) by The Wave Music Group homeowners Angelo Torres and Caleb Calloway and CMG Chair & CEO Michelle Jubelirer.
CMG’s cope with The Wave Music Group follows final week’s information that Latin music formally generated greater than $1 billion in US recorded music income in 2022.
Complete retail revenues generated by Latin recorded music in the US reached $1.09 billion in 2022, a rise of 23.8% YoY.
The primary music underneath the brand new settlement comes from Puerto Rican rapper and songwriter Younger Miko, whose first single underneath the brand new pact, Lisa, has already amassed greater than 50 million audio streams and 20 million video streams.
The monitor has additionally been utilized in greater than three million TikTok UGC creations which have generated 475 million views.
Below phrases of the settlement, in keeping with the announement, CMG can even present The Wave Music Group with “myriad providers in assist of its releases”, supplementing the corporate’s in-house capabilities which have been constructed and developed since its founding in 2021.
The Wave Music Group was shaped by Torres and Calloway in 2021, after Torres had labored as a supervisor for prime Latin expertise for a few years, representing Mexican-born singer, songwriter, and performer Mariangela and Puerto Rican rapper Alvaro Diaz, amongst others.
He was additionally an A&R Director for Magnus Media, the corporate based by music star Marc Anthony and veteran expertise agent Michel Vega.
Torres additionally labored because the A&R director on the Grammy award-winning album Dharma by Sebastian Yatra. Calloway has amassed greater than 22 billion streams throughout his many manufacturing credit, which incorporates work with artists corresponding to Unhealthy Bunny, Sebastián Yatra, Rauw Alejandro, Anuel, Arcángel, Sech, Álvaro Díaz, J Balvin, Zion & Lennox and The Martinez Bros, amongst others.
He has served as a producer on three Grammy award successful albums together with El Último Tour del Mundo by megastar Unhealthy Bunny, awarded Album of the 12 months and Finest City Music Album in 2021, and Dharma by Sebastian Yatra, awarded Finest Latin Pop Album in 2023.
Calloway is the producer of the brand new single Panties y Brasieres by Rauw Alejandro and Daddy Yankee.
“Their entrepreneurial spirit and strong basis, mixed with CMG’s experience and keenness, will make for an excellent partnership within the years forward.”
Michelle Jubelirer and Jeremy Vuernick, CMG
In keeping with Jubelirer and CMG President of A&R Jeremy Vuernick, Angelo Torres and Caleb Calloway, “have constructed The Wave right into a confirmed power for creating and breaking artists within the Latin Music area.
They added: “Their entrepreneurial spirit and strong basis, mixed with CMG’s experience and keenness, will make for an excellent partnership within the years forward.”
“Caleb and I’ve at all times felt like creators of moments inside our business which have marked a earlier than and after. Serving to artists attain success is our primary precedence.”
Angelo Torres
Torres stated: “Caleb and I’ve at all times felt like creators of moments inside our business which have marked a earlier than and after. Serving to artists attain success is our primary precedence.”
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