finetunes press release | 16/01/2009

finetunes signs licensing agreement with Deezer

Hamburg and Paris – 16/01/2009
On-demand streaming service Deezer has signed a licensing agreement with digital distributor finetunes.

Under the agreement, the French company will in future make available on its service the new releases and catalogue of all labels digitally distributed by finetunes. Deezer users will have access to leading record labels and artists including Record Makers (Sébastien Tellier), Cocoon Recordings (Sven Väth) and Honest Jon’s (Tony Allen).

Tom Guenther, finetunes' Head of Legal and Business Affairs, says: “We are very happy to have signed an agreement with Deezer, which represents not only one of the coolest but crucially a fully legal streaming service, which is not a matter of course these days.”Jonathan Benassaya and Daniel Marhely, founders of Deezer commented: "We are delighted to announce this agreement. finetunes is a pre-eminent distribution partner for music platforms like ours. finetunes’ know-how, and the diversity and quality of its catalogue, especially in the electronic genre, enables Deezer to improve its offer.“

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