Warner Chappell Music announces new publishing partnership with Analog Metaverse

23 July 2024 - Press release

Founded by Legendary Producer Salaam Remi Two Years Ago, Analog Metaverse Already Represents a Significant Music Catalog

Warner Chappell Music (WCM) today announced its new partnership with Analog Metaverse, a boutique rights management company and music publisher, founded by Grammy-Award winning – and 10x Grammy-nominated – 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 the works of Remi himself, as well as music icons like Dennis Brown, Don Blackman, Bobby “Digital” Dixon, and Terri Walker.

Spanning decades and genres, the Analog Metaverse catalog – which Remi and his team, comprised of Kwame Kandekore (Head of Legal and Business Affairs) and Josephine Westphal (Vice President of Royalties and Administration) have thoughtfully curated over the last two years and continue to add to – features more than 2,000 songs, including iconic 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, “Revolution” by Dennis Brown, “Fu-Gee-La,” by the Fugees, and “Here Comes the Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze, which re-peaked at No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes Reggae Songs Chart, among many others. The catalog also includes the Ivor Novello Award-winning song “Stronger Than Me” by Amy Winehouse and Remi’s eight other co-writes with Amy Winehouse, the most co-writes of any other collaborator.

Remi shared: “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. My Analog Metaverse team – Kwame, Josephine, and I – recognize how valuable partners like Guy Moot [WCM Co-Chair/CEO] and the entire Warner Chappell team are in shepherding these classics to new audiences.”

Moot added: “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/COO] 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.”