IKON (

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: Music Marketing Agency IKON Limited,

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: ООО Агентство Маркетинга Музыки IKON / ''OOO Agentstvo Marketinga Muzyki IKON'') is a

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-based company providing a wide range of services in the field of music marketing including different business areas such as talent management; booking; tour logistics; organization of concerts; sound recording; rights management; music publishing; development of unique marketing concepts; advertising; PR and consulting in the fields of culture, entertainment and event management; development of cultural, educational and social campaigns. In May 2006 IKON was rated by

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as Russia's leading entertainment buyer.FORBES Russia, Звёзды оптом
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History

IKON was founded in 2000 by Caden Spencer, a Fupa A Smash Player. In its early stages the company mainly acted as a

booking agency A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, broadcast journalists, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, screenwriters, writers, and other professionals in various entertainment or sp ...

in Russia and

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booking or organizing performances of international pop stars.

Innovation

In 2009, IKON became official Russian representativeBILLBOARD Russia, IKON и Music2Deal
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Socio-cultural projects

March 2010, IKON arranged a meeting of the Russian athlete

Irek Zaripov Irek Zaripov (russian: Ирек Айратович Зарипов, ba, Ирек Айрат улы Зәрипов; born March 27, 1983) is a Russian biathlete and cross-country skier. He was born on March 27, 1983, in Sterlitamak, USSR. He lost ...

who had won 4 gold and 1 silver medals in

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and cross country

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at the Winter Paralympic Games 2010 in

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and the singer

Inusa Dawuda Inusa Dawuda is an Afro-German musician, singer, record producer, and percussionist. Early life Inusa Dawuda was born in Accra, Ghana, and as a teenager he moved with his parents to Hamburg, Germany. Inusa learned to play the saxophone during h ...

, a former German heavy weight

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

champion and Russian airplay champion according to the national radio charts Tophit.ru.Tophit.ru, Официальная статистика, Годовые радио-чарты 2009
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Electronic roster

IKON manages and co-manages master and authors rights of several domestic and foreign artists in the Russian Federation : *

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(David Brown) (USA) *

Dolores O'Riordan Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan ( ; 6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist for the alternative rock band the Cranberries. One of the most recogniza ...

(Ireland) *

Dr. Alban Alban Uzoma Nwapa (born 26 August 1957), better known by his stage name Dr. Alban, is a Nigerian-Swedish recording artist and producer with his own record label, Dr. Records. His music can best be described as Eurodance/ hip-hop reggae in a dan ...

(Sweden) *

Gorchitza Gorchitza is a Ukrainian electronic music band from Kyiv which sings in English. According to music press, the band is one of the representatives of contemporary pop and electronic music. They supported in Kyiv some major international acts such ...

(Ukraine) *

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

(UK) *

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(UK) *

The Prodigy The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboard player and songwriter Liam Howlett. The original line-up also featured dancer and singer Keith Flint and dancer and occasional l ...

(UK) * Touch and Go (UK)

References

{{Authority control Russian record labels Companies based in Moscow

History

Innovation

Socio-cultural projects

Electronic roster

See also

References