FUGA strikes partnership with classical music firm Naxos

Downtown Music Holdings-owned B2B distributor FUGA has fashioned a brand new alliance with specialist classical music firm, Naxos Music Group, which distributes greater than 90,000 titles.

Underneath the deal, FUGA will present its providers together with digital distribution, advertising and marketing, royalty accounting and tendencies and analytics platform to Naxos, the businesses mentioned Wednesday (November 2).

Based in 1987 by German-born entrepreneur Klaus Heymann, the Naxos group now homes over 50 owned report labels together with its namesake model Naxos, Capriccio, Grand Piano, Ondine, Orfeo, Opus Arte, ARC and Prophone.

The corporate has 15 places of work globally and distributes greater than 700 unbiased report labels.

“Naxos’s extremely reputed world catalog and fierce dedication to each accessibility and innovation inside classical music makes this a really thrilling partnership,” Christiaan Kröner, President of FUGA, mentioned.

Kröner provides: “We sit up for offering a large breadth of FUGA’s industry-leading providers throughout distribution and advertising and marketing to Naxos’s clientele, connecting them even additional to audiences worldwide.”

“Naxos’s extremely reputed world catalog and fierce dedication to each accessibility and innovation inside classical music makes this a really thrilling partnership.”

Christiaan Kröner, FUGA

Along with classical music, Naxos additionally distributes world and jazz music recordings, in addition to a variety of different merchandise together with DVDs, books, e-books, audiobooks, apps and musical scores, amongst others.

Naxos would be the newest addition to FUGA’s consumer base globally that has now reached greater than 800 purchasers together with Higher Noise Music, Beggars Group, Epitaph and Ninja Tune.

About two months in the past, FUGA teamed up with Berlin-based artist administration and label providers company, Odyssey Music Community, whose roster contains Royal Republic, Asaf Avidan, Heather Nova and Apocalyptica, and is working with rising German expertise together with Energy Plush, Saint Chaos and Blond.

FUGA additionally partnered with Vienna-based label and administration firm Phat Penguin, which counts digital act Kruder & Dorfmeister as a part of its roster, offering the agency with its content material administration and sync and analytics choices.

“this new partnership will amplify the worldwide presence of classical music and lift the usual for its discoverability all through the digital ecosystem.”

Håkan Lagerqvist, Naxos Digital Companies

Over the previous 12 months, Amsterdam-headquartered FUGA launched new hubs in South Korea, Brazil, Sweden and Germany, rising its employees by 30% from a yr earlier.

“FUGA’s established dedication to music and expertise aligns with our imaginative and prescient to offer the absolute best service to our labels. Along with our classical music experience and deep catalog, this new partnership will amplify the worldwide presence of classical music and lift the usual for its discoverability all through the digital ecosystem,” Håkan Lagerqvist, CEO of Naxos Digital Companies, mentioned.

The most recent partnership follows Downtown Music Holding’s enterprise shakeup in September, establishing a brand new division to handle FUGA, Downtown Neighbouring Rights, Adrev and Downtown Music Companies.

The brand new division referred to as Downtown Music is led by FUGA CEO Pieter van Rijn. Downtown acquired FUGA in January 2020.

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