Downtown Artist & Label Services has announced an exclusive distribution partnership with Josa Records, focusing on rising star Net\u00f3n Vega.<\/p>\n
The agreement, announced Thursday (December 5), will provide worldwide distribution for Vega’s existing music catalog and his upcoming debut album, scheduled for an early 2025 release. The album boasts collaborations with prominent M\u00fasica Mexicana <\/b>artists including Peso Pluma, Luis R Conriquez, <\/b>and Tito Double P.<\/b><\/p>\n
Vega has accumulated over 1 billion<\/b> cumulative streams, with chart-topping hits like La Patrulla, LINDA, Presidente <\/i>and Si No Quieres No, <\/i>a collaboration with Latin GRAMMY nominee Luis R Conriquez<\/b>. The latter track secured the number one spot across digital streaming platforms and emerged as a top TikTok hit during the summer of 2024. On Spotify, Vega has attracted nearly 20 million<\/b><\/a> monthly listeners to date.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to join forces with Downtown to support Net\u00f3n Vega\u2019s incredible talent,\u201d said Josa Records founder Jesus Chavez<\/b>. \u201cTogether, I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll bring his music to new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n Downtown Artist & Label Services President Ben Patterson <\/b>said, \u201cSigning Net\u00f3n Vega<\/b> and Josa Records<\/b> is a landmark for Downtown.<\/p>\n \u201cNet\u00f3n’s a generational talent as an artist and songwriter and Downtown Artist & Label Services is fully invested in providing Josa Records a global team to support Net\u00f3n Vega’s music and continue his path of chart domination.\u201d<\/p>\n Ben Patterson, Downtown Artist & Label Services<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cNet\u00f3n’s a generational talent as an artist and songwriter and Downtown Artist & Label Services is fully invested in providing Josa Records a global team to support Net\u00f3n Vega’s music and continue his path of chart domination.\u201d<\/p>\n Raymond Tapia<\/b>, VP of A&R (Latin) at Downtown, described the collaboration as a “full-circle moment.”<\/p>\n \u201cTruly honored by the trust that Net\u00f3n Vega and Josa Records have placed in us to be the right partner for this project. I am confident that together, we will reach incredible new heights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The deal aligns with Downtown\u2019s broader strategy of supporting independent music in the M\u00fasica Mexicana genre. The company has already established collaborations with artists like Peso Pluma, Luis R Conriquez and Alzada Music.<\/p>\n In March, Downtown signed<\/a> Beto Vega<\/b> and expanded its partnership with Kartel Music<\/b>. At the time, the company said it had augmented its team in Mexico over the past two years to support its growing operations in the region, including promoting Daniela Guti\u00e9rrez<\/b>\u00a0to Senior Marketing Manager\u00a0and hiring\u00a0Lorena Cabral<\/b>\u00a0as Senior Manager, A&R for Mexico.<\/p>\n Downtown has a client base\u00a0of over 2 million <\/strong>musicians from 145 <\/strong>countries and a catalog of over<\/span>\u00a050 million <\/b>music assets.<\/p>\n The company was launched in April 2023<\/a> as a new division under Downtown Music Holdings\u00a0<\/strong>(DMH)-owned\u00a0Downtown Music<\/b>. It was formed from Downtown\u2019s distribution arm, DashGo<\/b>, which Downtown\u00a0acquired<\/a>\u00a0in 2019 when it bought\u00a0AVL Digital Group<\/b>\u00a0for an estimated\u00a0$200 million.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Downtown will provide worldwide distribution for Vega’s existing music catalog and his upcoming debut album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":218584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[132341,133324,132030,133325],"class_list":["post-218545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-downtown-artist-label-services","tag-josa-records","tag-musica-mexicana","tag-neton-vega"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n