Kobalt Music Group

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Kobalt Music Group is an rights management and music publishing company. Founded in 2000 by CEO Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt acts primarily as an administrative publishing company, not owning any copyrights. Also offering label services, 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. In 2015 it was reported that Kobalt was "the top independent music publisher in the UK and the second overall (to Sony/ATV) in the US," with around 600,000 songs and 8,000 artists in its catalogue Examples of artists served by Kobalt include Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, John Denver, The Weeknd and Marshmello. Kobalt owned 17.3% of the top 100 radio songs in the US in of 2015, ranking it third after Universal. Kobalt paid $29.8 million for the acquisition of Fintage House's Music Companies. In March 2026 US-based music publishing company Primary Wave Music announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement...

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