Virgin Music Group, Island deal with Carín León’s Socios Music to release new material

Universal Music Group’s label Island Records and its global artist services division, Virgin Music Group, have partnered with Carín León’s label Socios Music to release new music.

The first release of the partnership, León’s album Boca Chueca Vol. 1dropped on May 30 and gave León his strongest first week start to date, reaching No. 5 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums chart, and No. 8 on its Top Latin Albums chart.

The album has 19 tracks and “shows Carín experimenting with different genres, including rock, country and pop,” Virgin and Island said in a statement on Monday (June 24). It includes collaboration with Kane Brown, Leon Bridges, Pepe Aguilar, Borelaagain The Panteón Rococo.

The genre-defying León has many hits under his belt, including a Latin Grammy-winning Como Lo Hice Yoas well as Ni Me Debes Ni Te Debo, Te Lo Agradezco, There is no Es Por Acáand others who have collected more than that 2 billion streams are open Spotify. León has more than that 29 million listeners of the month in the broadcasting service.

León has achieved many milestones, including being the first Latin artist to perform in both Coachella again The Stagecoach in the same year. You just opened the The Rolling Stones and made his debut at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry.

The singer from Sonora, Mexico, has established himself as a songwriter, and signed an exclusive publishing deal. International Music Publishing Group last October.

“Carín León has established herself as one of the most exciting and creative musicians in the world today,” Virgin Music Group Co-CEOs JT Myers again Pastor too said the statement.

“He’s also assembled a world-class team around him and together we’re already building on the incredible work they’ve done throughout Carín’s incredible career.”

Justin Eshak again Imran Majid, Co-CEOs of Island Records, added that “Carín León is a true composer. He transcends not only stylistic and sonic boundaries, but also cultural boundaries. We are very happy to work with Carín and the manager Jorge Juarez with this new partnership with Virgin Music Group and Socios Music. There is no limit to what we can achieve together.”

“Carín León has established herself as one of the most exciting and creative artists in the world today.”

JT Myers and Nat Pastor, Virgin Music Group

“We are proud to bring together an incredibly collaborative team from both Virgin Music Group and Island Records to work with us to promote Carín’s career,” said Jorge Juarez, Leon’s manager and business partner at Socios Music. “We are already seeing significant benefits from this new partnership and are excited for the future.”

León launches a tour in support of the new album on July 22 in Paso Robles, California, with stops in Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Nashville, Houston and Toronto, as well as a landmark performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City .

For Virgin Music Group, this is just the latest in a series of new deals the artist and label services company has signed recently, including distribution partnerships with indie labels, publishers and management companies. Position Music; distribution agreement with Neon Gold Records, announced earlier this month; and relationships Jay SeanA newly established label 3AM Entertainmentwhich will focus on promoting South Asian artists.

These deals come after last fall’s decision to consolidate Ingrooves‘ global platform and marketing technology at Virgin Music, which Virgin says will enable it to “offer independent artists and labels a complete range of global services, providing unrivaled expertise in the music industry”.

“We are already seeing significant benefits from this new partnership and are excited for the future.”

Jorge Juarez, Socios Music

As part of the restructuring within Universal Music Group earlier this year, Island Records, and Def Jam, Mercury again The Republicthey were reorganized into a central area called Republic Corps.

Jim Roppo was named President and COO of Republic Corps, reporting directly to the label group’s partnership, Monte Lipman again Avery Lipman.Music Business Worldwide