Kobalt Music Group, Ltd. is an independent rights management and music publishing company founded in 2000. It acts primarily as an administrative publishing company, offering label services and neighboring rights. The company has developed an online portal to provide royalty income and activity to artists and allow them to manage their rights and royalties directly.

Kobalt Music

Kobalt Music Group, Ltd.

Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels. 

As file-sharing wreaked havoc on the record industry, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.

Today, Kobalt has over 700 employees in 12 offices around the world, represents over 20,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, and continues to push its disruptive philosophy and values into other areas of the music industry. Recent innovations AMRA, the world’s first global digital performing rights organization, are both considered major agents of change in their respective businesses. 

Kobalt is proud to work with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 60% of the top 100 songs in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Childish Gambino, Marshmello, Beck, Wolf Alice, Max Martin, Ozuna, Tash Sultana, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.

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Women in music 🖤 Some of Kobalt's best last week at Music Week's celebration.

One of the best 🙌 Melissa Emert-Hutner is an all-star, working with numerous artists including IDLES, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Omah Lay, Adekunle Gold, and Bon Iver. 

“Melissa’s hard work, diligence, teamwork, and passion for music makes this promotion very well deserved,” Kobalt Head of Global Creative Alison Donald said in a statement. “I have no doubt under her leadership, the NY creative team will continue to thrive.”

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Team Kobalt in Nashville for the CMA's 💫 

Laurent Hubert, Jeannette Perez, Jamie Kinelski, Morgan Brasfield, Kevin Lane

Proud to continue working with one of the best 🙌 

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Kobalt Music core is education for creators and take the whole industry forward. 

Oluwatosin “ Mr Eazi ” Ajibade emPawa Africa  music publishing conference in Lagos, Nigeria 

Next stop Norrsken East Africa 

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AMRA Music

Looking for an Office Coordinator to join our team in our newly opened LA Office 📍 

If you're highly organized and have great attention to detail, plus strong communication skills to manage the daily operations in our busy office this is the job for you!

Sound like you? Let us know ⬇️
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We're looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our growing team!

The perfect candidate will have experience working as a Product Leader within the music industry. You understand how the music industry operates and the aspects of catalogue management, royalty processing and the end to end journey of how music publishing works.

Think you're the right fit? Let us know ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/gxYWNjWb

Congrats Sean Dishman, newly promoted Senior Director, Creative at Kobalt 👏

Put best by Jamie Kinelski, SVP & Head of West Coast Creative, “I’ve had the pleasure of watching Sean grow into an executive over the last decade. His knowledge & passion for music spills over into all that he does for our clients. His impeccable taste makes him a valued member of our global creative team, and I am thrilled to see continued growth at Kobalt.” 

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Willard Ahdritz, our visionary Founder and Chairman, highlighted in Billboard’s “MUSIC’S TOP INVESTORS IN TECH OF THE FUTURE” alongside Matt Spetzler who’s championing the next phase of Kobalt and AMRA Music. Shoutout to list inclusion Matt Pincus. 

Exciting time for the future of music 🌟

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Welcoming writer Toby Scott to our Kobalt fam in the UK Office 🖤 

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