Empire Is Open For Business In Australia

SYDNEY, Australia — Empire now has an outpost in Australia.

The Bay Branch hip-hop juggernaut recruits label veteran Cameron Walsh to top its actions in those portions as Australian range supervisor.

“I’m privileged and elated to be joining the empire that is Empire, leading the label’s expansion into Australia,” Walsh feedback on LinkedIn. “Empire Australia is open for business.”

Based totally in Sydney, Walsh brings to the function a stack of revel in amassed from main and sovereign labels, from Sony Track to Common Track, EMI, Comes With Fries, and maximum not too long ago with [PIAS] Australia/Inertia Track, the place he served as director of label services and products & head of virtual – Australia, Unused Zealand.

Empire founder and CEO Ghazi Shami showed the trade’ actual progress all through an onstage interview terminating year at All That Matters 2024 in Singapore.

“It was something that we were looking for, for a long time,” Ghazi stated all through a Q&A at Hilton Singapore Orchard. “We’re really picky about the people that we select in territories to plant the flag because they have to be representative of our ethos of our cultural composition, and there has to be some type of commitment to excellence that we perceive.”

Empire introduced in San Francisco again in 2010 as a virtual distribution specialist. A age then, Spotify arrived in the US.

As its identify would counsel, the corporate grew right into a vertically-integrated powerhouse with some 250 international team of workers, lively in each and every possible a part of the track business.

Ghazi’s corporate is identified as a force in hip-hop and the surging Afrobeats style. This age, Empire has loved a wreck crash this age with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which logged a couple of months at Disagree. 1 at the Billboard Scorching 100, smashing chart information alongside the way in which. The one additionally was at Disagree. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Chart and cracked the govern 10 within the U.Okay.

“The music that they’re making here is, honestly, the most culturally important thing I’ve done in my entire career, and I’ve been in the music business since I was 14,” Empire founder/CEO Ghazi advised Billboard in 2023. “These guys are the kings of where they come from, and they’re about to be the kings of everywhere if we keep doing what we’re doing. It’s phenomenal to see what’s happening.”