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# QUICK HITS: SiX18 + TKO • RSD + Tragically Hip • Vetfi + Downtown • So So Def + Create • Hangout FM + Beatdapp
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/quick-hits-six18-tko-rsd-tragically-hip-vetfi-downtown-so-so-def-create-hangout-fm-beatdapp/
- Published: 2024-02-08T15:07:52.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-08T15:11:30.000Z
- Description: Music promoter, marketing, and branding specialist Clay Busch has launched SiX18 Media, an agency focused on broadening artist and creator influence and revenue streams…
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, DIY musicians, music, Music Business, music industry, Music Tech, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:44

Music promoter, marketing, and branding specialist **Clay Busch** has launched **SiX18 Media**, an agency focused on broadening artist and creator influence and revenue streams.

**Eliza Tew** joined as Director of Brand Partnerships and Talent Manager.

SiX18 has formed a strategic alliance with **The Kirby Organization (TKO)**, the live music agency led by **Andrew Goodfriend** and **Mike Monterulo** *.*

• **The Tragically Hip** have been named **Record Store Day 2024** Canadian Ambassadors and will be releasing an exclusive live album, **Live at CBGB**’s, on Record Store Day as part of the band’s year-long 40th anniversary celebration.

RSD’s global celebration of independent record stores takes place on April 20, 2024.

• Media rights data management provider **Verifi** has expanded the partnership between **Downtown**  
**Music** and its **Verifi Rights Data Alliance** (VRDA). **Songtrust** will be the first of Downtown Music’s  
publishing services to join the alliance, following Downtown Music company FUGA in 2022.

“Members of the VRDA have access to a set of collaborative tools for metadata exchange across music’s  
digital value chain while allowing each entity to maintain its own proprietary database.”

• **So So Def Recordings** has inked a multi-year deal with **Create Music Group**. **Jermaine Dupri. Dupri** will also serve as the new **Creative Director** for **Create Music Group**

Dupri will transition from CEO of So So Def Recordings to Chairman & Founder and has appointed **Bryan Patrick Franklin** as the new CEO and **Joe Romulus** Esq as Head of Legal Business Affairs.

• At its launch in later 2024, **Turntable**‘s **Hangout FM** will use **Beatdapp** to detect and prevent streaming fraud on its platform.

Under the agreement, Hangout FM will gain access to hundreds of Beatdapp’s real-time fraud detection models, behavior predictive models for identifying fraud before it occurs, and stream tracking tools, which work together to find missing royalties and identify streaming manipulation.

*Bruce Houghton*