Founded in 2009 by Jamie Oborne<\/strong>, Dirty Hit also has offices in London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dirty Hit said that Labbani\u2019s hire signals a “renewed commitment to continue growing the label across mainland Europe”, with the “ongoing support” of long-term distribution partner<\/a> Virgin Music.<\/p>\n Labbani will lead Dirty Hit’s European operations for its full roster, which includes The 1975, Bleachers, Beabadoobee, Kelsey Lu, Rina Sawayama, and The Japanese House, while also contributing to the continued growth of dh2, the new electronic imprint led by The 1975\u2019s drummer George<\/b> Daniel<\/b>.<\/p>\n dh2 has spent the past 18 months building a presence through club nights in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Paris, and taking over Glastonbury Festival\u2019s San Remo last year, Dirty Hit said.<\/p>\n Noura<\/strong> Labbani<\/strong>, Dirty Hit, EU Label Manager, said: \u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining Dirty Hit and launching their Berlin office. It\u2019s the ideal place to build from and connect more closely with artists and audiences across Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining Dirty Hit and launching their Berlin office. It\u2019s the ideal place to build from and connect more closely with artists and audiences across Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n Noura Labbani, Dirty Hit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Jamie<\/strong> Oborne<\/strong>, Dirty Hit, Founder & Owner, added: \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly happy to have Noura Labbani joining the team as EU Label Manager.<\/p>\n “Berlin has always been a city where new ideas take shape and culture moves forward, and opening our EU office here feels instinctive\u2014it\u2019s about being part of that energy and building closer relationships with artists and audiences across Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n Oborne\u00a0signed<\/a>\u00a0singer, songwriter and record producer\u00a0Jack<\/b>\u00a0Antonoff<\/b>, a\u00a0long-time collaborator<\/a>\u00a0of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, as well as his band, Bleachers, in 2023. Oborne and Antonoff also formed a label joint venture to sign other artists, while Bleachers have signed to the Dirty Hit label.<\/p>\n Jamie Oborne<\/b>, Dirty Hit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In 2024, Oborne told MBW: \u201cDon\u2019t sign things you don\u2019t fully believe in. Otherwise you\u2019ll have to fake it.\u201d<\/p>\n The expansion to Germany comes as the country\u2019s recorded music revenues rose 2.3%<\/b> YoY<\/b> to EUR \u20ac2.42 billion<\/b> (USD $2.73 billion at the average exchange rate for 2025) in 2025, according to<\/a> German Music Industry Association,\u00a0BVMI<\/b><\/a>, in March.<\/p>\n Music streaming was the market\u2019s primary growth driver in 2025, with streaming revenues growing\u00a04.1%\u00a0YoY<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0\u20ac2 billion<\/b>\u00a0($2.26 billion). Streaming alone accounted for\u00a084.4%<\/b>\u00a0of total recorded music revenues in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Labbani will lead Dirty Hit’s European operations for its full roster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":256245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[132781,1601,4147,2083,135224,2076],"class_list":["post-256213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bleachers","tag-dirty-hit","tag-jack-antonoff","tag-jamie-oborne","tag-noura-labbani","tag-the-1975"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256213","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=256213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256251,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256213\/revisions\/256251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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