Billboard-charting Songwriter &
Recording Artist OG Maco Signs with Pro Music Rights
Privately-Funded For-Profit Public Performing
Rights Organization Welcomes Artist to Growing Roster of Music
Stars
Naples, Florida -- May 20, 2019 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- Pro
Music Rights, the groundbreaking performing rights organization
(PRO) that recently partnered with music technology company VNUE,
Inc. (OTC:
VNUE) to require its Soundstr MRT (Music Recognition
Technology) for all of its licensees, is proud to announce the
signing of Billboard-charting recording artist and songwriter OG
Maco.
OG Maco is best known for his 2014 debut single entitled "U
Guessed It," a viral hit that peaked at num- ber 90 on the US
Billboard Hot 100 Charts. OG Maco has collaborated with dozens of
artists, including Migos, Diplo, 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka
Flame, Offset, Fallout Boy, and many more.
"I'm overjoyed that OG Maco has chosen to bring his catalog to
the Pro Music Rights family,” Pro Music Rights Founder and CEO Jake
P. Noch said in a statement. "He is a standout star in our
sterling—and rapidly-expanding—roster of some of the world's
greatest musical catalogs."
Pro Music Rights is a privately-funded, for-profit performing
rights organization, only the fifth-ever or- ganization of its kind
formed in the United States. The organization was started by Jake
P. Noch - En- trepreneur, Music Industry Executive, and Musician -
in 2018. In that short amount of time, Pro Music Rights has already
secured a market share of 7.4% in the USA and represents thousands
of artist brands throughout the industry. Pro Music Rights
repertoire includes works that feature such notable acts as Snoop
Dog, A$AP Rocky, Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell, Young Jeezy, Julez Santana,
Lil' Yachty, the late Nipsey Hussle & Countless more. VNUE’s
Soundstr technology will track and audit music plays, so that the
cor- rect rights holders are compensated.
VNUE, Inc. CEO Zach Bair said, “With the addition of OG Maco to
Pro Music Rights’ roster, the industry should take note that
artists will no longer have to stand idle while their royalties are
tied up in an opaque, antiquated system, where no one, particularly
the songwriters and artists, really knows where that money goes or
if they are being paid their due. I am excited to work with Jake,
and for VNUE to provide the underlying technology in helping to
shape this new and innovative model, one which we believe will be
the future of general music licensing.”
"Over my years in the industry, I've seen and experienced all
the systematic issues caused by other Per- forming Rights
Organizations that drag the creative industry down as a whole,”
continued Noch. “They hinder the livelihoods of the entire creative
community. The Pro Music Rights model, which leverages VNUE’s
Soundstr Music Recognition Technology (soundstr.com) to create a true
“pay-per-play” system, aims to disrupt the old way of doing things
and will create a better world for musical artists & music
publishers everywhere."
OG Maco says, he “is so happy to finally be able to advance my
career with a company and a CEO I’d trust not only with my wallet
but with my life,” speaking about Pro Music Rights and Jake Noch.
He adds, “Pro Music Rights is the future of artists rights and the
perfect way to meld the interests of the artists and the acumen of
a Fortune 500 company.”
With the Pro Music Rights model, 100% of all public performance
royalties are paid directly to the per- formers, songwriters,
publishers, and legally-entitled rights holders—like OG Maco - who
get paid on a monthly basis - All without having administrative
fees deducted from their public performance royal- ties. The
extensive Pro Music Rights catalog represents over 2,200,000+
works.
Pro Music Rights is actively reaching out to major DSPs such as
Apple (Nasdaq:
AAPL), Google (Nasdaq:
GOOGL), Amazon (Nasdaq:
AMZN), Spotify (NYSE:
SPOT), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), 7Digital (LON: 7DIG), Tencent
(OTCMKTS: TCTZF), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI)
and more, to reach licensing agreements for Pro Music Rights
catalog music played on each service through its Global IP Counsel
Richard Gora, Esq. of Gora LLC, http://goralaw.com. All agreements
will require Soundstr monitoring and auditing.
About Pro Music Rights, LLC. (https://promusicrights.com)
Pro Music Rights is the 5th ever formed public performance
rights organization (PRO) in the United States, that controls a
market share of 7.4% in the USA and that represents over 2,000,000
works, some that feature such notable acts as some as Snoop Dogg,
A$AP Rocky, Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell, Young Jeezy, the late Nipsey
Hussle, and many others. Pro Music Rights pays 100% of all public
performance royal- ties directly to the performers, songwriters,
publishers, and legally entitled rights holders who have joined Pro
Music Rights on a monthly basis. Jake P. Noch founded Pro Music
Rights in January of 2018 and serves as the company's CEO after
experiencing firsthand the systematic issues that plague the field
of public performance rights, and hinders the livelihood of
performers, songwriters, publishers, and the creative community as
a whole. For more information, please visit (https://promusicrights.com).
About VNUE, Inc. / Soundstr (www.vnue.com • www.soundstr.com)
VNUE, Inc., (OTC:
VNUE) is dedicated to further monetizing the live music
experience for artists, la- bels, writers, and publishers, by
bringing together technology such as its set.fm (www.set.fm) plat-
form, exclusive license partner and “instant live” pioneer DiscLive
(www.disclive.net), and music recognition technology (MRT) Soundstr
(www.soundstr.com), which
helps businesses pay fairer music license fees based on actual
music usage. The veteran entrepreneurs, artists and songwriters
behind VNUE are passionate about the future of their industry and
ensuring that rights holders' value is not lost amid
always-changing technology. VNUE's team led by CEO Zach Bair, known
as the pioneer in “instant live” recording, has produced live
content and created experiential products for over 15 years for
artists and companies including Slash, Seether, Peter Frampton,
Foreigner, The Pixies, Blondie, EMI, Capitol Records, Rob Thomas,
Bad Company, REO Speedwagon, Devo, and many more. In addition to
Bair, the company’s leadership team also includes Lou Mann, former
GM of Capitol Records and former president of House of Blues Media
Properties; Jock Weaver, former president of Hard Rock In-
ternational, founder and former president of TBA Entertainment, and
chairman of Heritage Trust Com- pany (a private equity firm); Jim
King, former EVP at BMI, and who held “C” level positions at other
major companies; Tony “Montana” Cardenas, founder of DiskFaktory
and a platinum-selling Capitol Records recording artist and writer
formerly with the band Great White; and Jeff Zakim, former head of
Digital for Blue Note Records, and Global Digital Strategy for EMI
Music.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
For Pro Music Rights
Investor Relations / press@promusicrights.com
For VNUE, Inc.
Investor Relations / press@vnue.com
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