Salaam Remi’s Analog Metaverse Partners with Warner Chappell Music

Photo Credit: Salaam Remi & Guy Moot / Warner Music Group

Warner Chappell Music partners with legendary producer Salaam Remi’s Analog Metaverse, boutique rights management company and music publisher.Warner Chappell Music (WCM) announced a new partnership with Analog Metaverse, a boutique rights management company and music publisher founded by legendary record producer and music executive, Salaam Remi. As part of the deal, WCM will jointly administer the majority of the company’s expansive music catalog, including Remi’s own works, as well as that of artists like Dennis Brown, Don Blackman, Bobby “Digital” Dixon, and Terri Walker.

Spanning decades and genres, the Analog Metaverse catalog features over 2,000 songs, including classics and contemporary hits like, “Girl On Fire” by Alicia Keys, “Money In My Pocket” by Dennis Brown, “All I Want Is You” by Miguel and J. Cole, “Fu-Gee-La” by the Fugees, and “Here Comes the Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze. The catalog also includes the Ivor Novello Award-winning song, “Stronger Than Me” by Amy Winehouse, and Remi’s eight other co-writes with Winehouse, the most co-writes of all her collaborators. Remi and his team, composed of Kwame Kandekore (Head of Legal and Business Affairs) and Josephine Westphal (Vice President of Royalties and Administration), have carefully curated this catalog over the last two years, and continue to add to it.

“Having the benefit of being a songwriter and publisher myself, I fully understand the importance of having partners who not only appreciate the wonderful creations of the icons from the last few generations, but also can help us carry them into the future,” shares Remi. “My Analog Metaverse team — Kwame, Josephine, and I — recognize how valuable partners like Guy Moot [WCM Co-Chair and CEO] and the entire Warner Chappell team are in shepherding these classics to new audiences.”WCM CEO and Co-Chair Guy Moot concluded: “I’ve personally known Salaam for more than three decades, and it’s such an honor to be entrusted to shepherd not only his own life’s work, but that of legends like Dennis Brown. Carianne [Marshall, WCM Co-Chair and CEO] and I are very intentional about the catalogs we work with and really think about how we can grow and tend to them, both today and for the years to come. There’s a lot of synergy between our approach and Analog Metaverse’s mission, and it’s great to be joining forces to help writers and their estates realize their full potential.”