Warner Chappell Music (WCM) has inked an unique publishing settlement with R&B singer/songwriter Coco Jones following the success of her EP, What I Didn’t Inform You.
The EP has earned Jones 5 Grammy nominations on the forthcoming 66th Annual Awards, together with a nod for Greatest New Artist. What I Didn’t Inform You additionally spawned her first Billboard Sizzling 100 hit with the platinum-selling single, ICU. The monitor has up to now generated 40.8 million Spotify streams.
Jones launched into her first, and sold-out, headlining tour throughout 16 main US cities in 2023. The artist has almost 2 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify.
Born in South Carolina and raised in Lebanon, Tennessee, Coco Jones, also called Courtney Michaela Jones, started her music journey on the age of 9. Past her early recordings, she gained prominence by way of her position within the Disney Channel movie Let it Shine in 2012 and the sitcom Good Luck Charlie.
Jones independently launched music between 2014 and 2018, with notable tracks like Depressed and Simply My Luck. After the discharge of her EPs H.D.W.Y. in 2019 and Hollyweird in 2020, Jones signed with Excessive Standardz/Def Jam Recordings in 2022 and unveiled her EP What I Didn’t Inform You.
She then expanded the EP and acquired Grammy nominations, securing wins on the BET and Soul Practice Music Awards, together with the NAACP Picture Awards‘ Excellent New Artist. Jones has collaborated with business gamers who’ve labored with Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, and Summer season Walker.
“Music has been a continuing in my life and the motivation that has anchored me because the very starting. Discovering a staff at Warner Chappell that shares that very same ardour and understands my voice and imaginative and prescient could be very particular to me,” stated Coco Jones.
“Music has been a continuing in my life and the motivation that has anchored me because the very starting. Discovering a staff at Warner Chappell that shares that very same ardour and understands my voice and imaginative and prescient could be very particular to me.”
Coco Jones
Xavier Champagne, Senior Director, City A&R, Warner Chappell Music, additionally commented on the deal, describing Jones as “a pure celebrity.”
“She’s a top-tier performer and has a particular expertise for songwriting that connects deeply together with her followers. With 5 Grammy nominations to her identify, it’s clear that R&B is in nice arms. We couldn’t be extra excited to companion together with her on this journey.”
Ryan Press, President, North America, WCM, highlighted Jones’s “distinctive voice,” saying “it’s nice to see her having her second as each a songwriter and artist. She’s serving to pave a completely new period of R&B and her hustle and work ethic have led to a yr of breakthroughs. Now let’s go win some Grammys!”
“She’s a top-tier performer and has a particular expertise for songwriting that connects deeply together with her followers. With 5 Grammy nominations to her identify, it’s clear that R&B is in nice arms.”
Xavier Champagne, Warner Chappell Music
The cope with Jones mark WCM’s newest artist signing after hanging a cope with iconic singer-songwriter Dido in November, and and renewing its partnership with songwriter Rick Boardman, the founding father of Manchester-based songwriting collective The Six, the identical month.
Final spring, WCM signed DJ and songwriter Nia Archives, and inked a partnership with Grammy-nominated producer Tommy Brown, the founding father of Champagne Remedy Music Group.
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