Impartial label, distributor, and writer EMPIRE has launched EMPIRE Africa.
Spearheading EMPIRE’s progress in Africa is Ezegozie Eze Jr. as Vice President Market Improvement, Kareem Mobalaji as Regional Head West Africa, and Titilope Adesanya as Undertaking Supervisor.
EMPIRE was based by Ghazi Shami in 2010.
Of their new roles, Eze, Mobolaji, and Adesanya will dealer new expertise partnerships and promote artists in Western Africa and all the continent.
Based mostly in Lagos, Nigeria, they are going to help EMPIRE’s roster of artists in music markets similar to Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and the Ivory Coast.
The announcement comes after a sequence of latest releases in Africa from EMPIRE artists together with Fireboy DML’s hit single Peru with remixes by Ed Sheeran, 21 Savage and Blxst, Olamide’s Carpe Diem, Burna Boy’s Twice As Tall (Distributed by EMPIRE in African continent), Wande Coal’s Realms and Kizz Daniel’s King of Love
EMPIRE experiences that its releases “blanketed the highest 35 songs” on Apple Music’s Nigeria Prime Songs chart in 2021.
Wrapping up the yr, EMPIRE says that it turned the highest distributor in Nigeria in keeping with TurnTable Charts.
Eze joins EMPIRE from his position as Normal Supervisor of Common Music Nigeria, the place he was instrumental in growing UMG’s key progress methods and artists in Western Africa.
In his position as Normal Supervisor, Eze established the Anglophone West Africa regional workplace, developed the primary Canal Olympia venus in Abuja and Lagos in Nigeria and led UMG to grow to be the primary main label to associate with native digital service suppliers, Boomplay and uduX.
Beforehand, Mobolaji labored as a advertising and marketing govt with cell expertise firm MTech and based his personal digital advertising and marketing company – Ingle Thoughts – the place he developed and labored with Nigerian superstars Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, WizKid, Olamide, Fireboy DML and plenty of extra.
By means of his work with the aforementioned artists, Mobolaji is thought to be the highest A&R and improvement govt in Nigeria. Adesanya joins EMPIRE with prior journalism and advertising and marketing careers within the music business.
Most lately, she labored at digital music distribution firm, Africori, in product administration and communications.
Collectively, the trio’s experience will deliver a wealth of expertise to EMPIRE’s world staff, each in Western Africa and overseas.
In February 2021,EMPIRE opened a division within the US to give attention to West Asia, North Africa and its diaspora.
To go up the territory, EMPIRE employed Suhel Nafar as Vice President of Technique & Market Improvement.Music Enterprise Worldwide
