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Warner Music Group (WMG) and music technology company Songclip have signed a strategic global multi-year partnership which will see Songclip use WMG’s catalogue on its API, enabling music integrations across video, dating and gaming apps.

Songclip has created an API that, when integrated with other apps, allows users to search for and share music clips in everything from their social media feeds to their online dating profiles while simultaneously providing data analytics on how consumers interact with music to the social platforms, mobile apps and virtual marketplaces that use its service.

Warner Chappell Production Music (WCPM) has opened the doors to two innovative new recording facilities – SkyLight Studios in Los Angeles and Sandtrack Sound in Nashville.

The WCPM team partnered with David Kotch of Criterion Acoustics to redesign SkyLight Studios, a former mastering lab located in the heart of Hollywood. The building is equipped to offer the best of digital and analog recording capabilities with state-of-the-art Pro Tools systems, a Neve console, vintage microphones, tape machines, and A-list outboard gear.

The Joy have signed a worldwide publishing deal with Transgressive Publishing and Warner Chappell Music. The band – comprising Ntokozo Magcaba, Melokuhle Mkhungo, Sanele Ngcobo, Phelelani Sithole and Sandile Sphelele Hlophe – hail from South Africa, but are fast becoming an international phenomenon.

Their new single ‘Isencane Lengane’, out this week, was recorded and produced by Two Inch Punch, the UK record producer known for his work with Jessie Ware, Rag’n’Bone Man, Rex Orange County, Sam Smith and Years & Years.