Publishing Briefs: Ed Sheeran Co-Writer Amy Wadge Joins Concord, Plus Kobalt Signs Disco Neil

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This week's roundup of quality successful the wide satellite of euphony publishing besides includes Jessi Uribe signing with UMPG and much emotion for Lev Abeliovich.

Amy Wadge attends the "Twiggy" Special Screening astatine Vue West End connected March 06, 2025 successful London, England.

English singer-songwriter Amy Wadge, known for her longtime collaboration with Ed Sheeran and hits for Camila Cabello and others, signed a caller planetary publishing woody with Concord Music Publishing. The concern covers Wadge’s astir caller songs, including caller singles from FKA Twigs, Jonas Brothers and Noah Cyrus, arsenic good arsenic aboriginal works.

Wadge astir notably earned the 2016 Grammy for opus of the twelvemonth for co-writing Sheeran’s monster deed “Thinking Out Loud” (nearing the 3 cardinal people connected Spotify). She besides co-penned Sheeran’s “Galway Girl,” “Barcelona” and “Visiting Hours,” arsenic good arsenic Cabello’s “Consequences,” James Blunt’s “Monsters” and Keith Urban’s “Parallel Line,” among galore different cross-genre tracks. In the Americana and state space, she co-wrote Noah Cyrus and Blake Shelton’s “New Country” and Madi Diaz’s Grammy-nominated “Don’t Do Me Good” featuring Kacey Musgraves. Wadge is actively processing caller euphony (she has respective solo albums nether her belt) and preparing for circuit dates portion expanding her scope into philharmonic theatre, movie and TV — including a caller collaboration with British icon Twiggy connected a documentary project.

“Amy is simply a formidable writer, and we are perfectly thrilled to invited her to the Concord family,” said Kim Frankiewicz, evp of worldwide A&R astatine CMP. “Her passionateness for songwriting is genuinely infectious, and we couldn’t beryllium much excited to spouse with her connected this adjacent section of her career.”

Added Wadge: “As soon arsenic I met the team, I knew it was going to beryllium the close location for maine arsenic a songwriter. It’s fantastic to cognize that I americium being truthful good looked aft successful aggregate territories with radical that are passionate astir what they do, and I americium looking guardant to seeing what we tin execute together.”

Check retired the remainder of this week’s publishing quality below.

Disco Neil / Kobalt

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Kobalt signed a planetary publishing woody with Disco Neil, 1 fractional of the Miami-based accumulation duo Bashment Sound, known for MOLIY’s deed “Shake It To The Max.” The FLY Remix of the opus cracked the apical 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, making it lone the 3rd dancehall way to illustration this decade. A Miami autochthonal with Caribbean roots, Disco Neil blends dancehall, afrobeats, and physics music, earning acclaim crossed the U.S., U.K., and West Africa. His enactment has positioned him arsenic a sought-after collaborator successful some underground and mainstream scenes. Kob...