Cinq Music Group

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Cinq Music
Founded2012
Headquarters Santa Monica, California,
United States
Founder(s) Barry Daffurn [1]
Key people Master P
Services Music distribution, analytics
URL cinqmusic.com
Native client(s) on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Vevo

Cinq Music Group is a technology driven, music distribution, record label, and rights management company. Cinq Music earned dozens of RIAA Gold & Platinum certifications, and received a nomination as Billboard Latin Urban Label of the Year. Cinq Music was started as a digital music distribution company in 2012 by Barry Daffurn. Cinq Music Group now provides rights management, content creation and label services for recording artists. [2] Janet Jackson released her "Made For Now" music video in collaboration with Cinq in August 2018, [3] [4] [5] the collaboration with Daddy Yankee, returned Jackson to the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time since 2015, [6] and her 20th number one on the Dance Club Songs chart. [7]

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Focusing on independent and untapped talent, Percy Miller (aka Master P) became president of Urban Music Development at Cinq in 2017. [8] Cinq received first round venture capital funding in 2015. [9] [10]

In September 2020, Cinq acquired the record label Beluga Heights Records, the home to Jason Derulo. [11]

Clients

Featured clients include: [2] [12]

Awards

In 2016, Cinq was a nominee and finalist for Billboard Magazine's, Latin Rhythm Albums Label of the Year, [21] with Sony Music Latin winning the category. [22]

YearCategoryInstitution or publicationResultNotesRef.
2016Latin Rhythm Albums Label of the Year Billboard Magazine Nominated [21]
2017 Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album Latin Grammy Award NominatedFlora y Faῦna by Camila Luna [23] [16] [24]

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