Hope Music Group

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Hope Music Group
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Music and entertainment
Genre Pop music
World music
Hip hop and R&B
FoundedFebruary 17, 2012
Headquarters
Douala
,
Cameroon
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Parent Philjohn Investment Holding
Website hmg.cm

Hope Music Group [1] (sometimes known plainly by the initials as, HMG) is a Cameroonian record label that mainly produces hip hop, urban & popular music. It is distributed by The Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. [2] The label produces and distributes various artists as Locko, J-Rio, Fanicko, Dynastie le tigre, Michael Kiessou, Featurist, Duc-Z and record labels as White House Music, Tiger Production, MKO Music.
Hope Music Group was founded by Philippe Nkouaya in 2012. The label's first release was a mixtape by his music producer Philjohn.

Contents

History

2011 - 2014 : DeadZone Recordz to Hope Music

The company was founded in February 2012 by Philippe Nkouaya and Anthony Gorby in Douala, Cameroon. [3] But before the era, the premisces[ check spelling ] of the label was based on a previous label founded by Philippe and associates, DeadZone Recordz which was shutdown in 2011. Active independent label in popular music, the company developed many activities in order to offer a formula as 360 deals (music recording, visual content production, development, promotion and music publishing). HMG [4] signed independent artists as Michael Kiessou, Yvich and gained partnerships with MTN Cameroon (AIM), Putumayo World Music (Content connect Africa) . [5]  · [6]

2014 - 2016 : Sony Music/The Orchard Partnership

In April 2015, HMG entered an exclusive distributed deal with Sony Music Entertainment's main distribution service company The Orchard (company) for a 4-year deal.

HMG energized the breakthrough of Cameroonian urban music [7] by managing artists and developing urban music styles in Cameroon and abroad.
The label catalog [8] is rather modern, Pop, Contemporary R&B, world music, electronic music, reggae, soul and hip-hop. The label released several projects such as Partage EP [9] of Michael Kiessou, La loi de la nature [10] of Dynastie le tigre and Parti De Rien [11] of Georges Breezy.

2016 - present : Philjohn Investment Holding and restructuring

In November 2016, [12] HMG had new shareholders such as HTD & Penthold, which bought the respective shares of Armel Nango and Philippe Nkouaya. [13] HMG becomes a subsidiary of Henthold and joins the conglomerate with sister companies Hope Music Publishing, Hope Management & Consulting (HOMCO), YASHA Corp., Hope Clothing, Philjohn Technologies & Hope Entertainment Pictures (HentPix).

In February 2017, an edition service is coupled with those of the label via the sister company Hope Music Publishing which has a catalog of more than 700 songs and added to that of HMG, brings back a catalog of more than 1000 songs. In November 2017 hope music group signs a distribution deal with a Gabonese label the node music through Kiss levray.

List of Hope Music Group labels & artists

In January 2017, the label subdivided its large catalog into 3 under separate labels, Binam Nation, Easy Hits Recordz & Bakwaaba Muzik. Each catalog has specific services and specializes in specific areas.

Artistes

Publishing

Discography

2013 - 2016

2017

2018

Awards and recognition

YearArtistAward showCategoryResults
2013Dynastie le tigreRDCM – soirée de l'excellenceBest male artistWon
2014Dynastie le tigreYa'Fe FestivalBest performerWon
Balafon Music AwardsBest rookie of the yearWon
KR AwardsBest male rookie of the yearWon
2015Michael KiessouCanal 2'ORBest video (tourner les reins)Won [22]
Greenlight AwardsBest Male artistWon [23]
KR AwardsPrix spécial du juryWon [24]
Dynastie le tigreBalafon Music AwardsBest male vocalsWon
2016Michael KiessouMTN Zik AwardsMost downloaded artistWon
Dynastie le tigreMTN Zik AwardsMost downloaded artistWon
YvichMTN Zik AwardsMost downloaded artistWon
FeaturistMTN Zik AwardsMost downloaded artistWon

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