{"id":98718,"date":"2021-01-17T21:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98718"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:20:55","slug":"dirty-hit","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/dirty-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty Hit is a UK-based independent record label.<\/p>\n<p>Home to artists including The 1975, Wolf Alice, No Rome, and Beabadoobee, Dirty Hit was founded in London by Jamie Oborne in December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Oborne&#8217;s co-founders in Dirty Hit were Brian Smith and the late Ugo Ehiogu.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, Dirty Hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/dirty-hit-expands-into-los-angeles-sydney-hires-greg-carr-rachel-jones-williams-to-head-up-new-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expanded with new operations<\/a> in Los Angeles and Sydney.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>Dirty Hit: Distribution setup<\/h6>\n<p>Dirty Hit operates independently with the support of Ingrooves Music Group as a digital distribution partner, under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/dirty-hit-inks-global-digital-distribution-deal-with-ingrooves\/\">global deal.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to its deal with Universal Music Group-owned Ingrooves, Dirty Hit has an existing licensing agreement with Universal labels \u2013 Interscope in the US and Polydor in the UK \u2013 for records made by The 1975.<\/p>\n<p>When Dirty Hit re-upped its deal with Ingrooves in December 2019, Jamie Oborne said: &#8220;Bob Roback and his team at Ingrooves have built one of the most sophisticated distribution operations in the world and I\u2019m excited about this new era for our two companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similarly, our ties with Universal Music Group run deep, particularly with David Joseph [Chairman and CEO UMG UK\/Ireland] and John Janick [Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&amp;M] who were early supporters of our label and artists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty Hit is home to artists including The 1975, No Rome, and Wolf Alice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":60868,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98718","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}