Production duo have 2 billion streams and 1 billion YouTube views worldwide.
LIVERPOOL, 30th May 2024 — Sentric, a global award-winning publisher owned by Believe, one of the world’s leading digital music companies, has signed music production and DJ duo Banx & Ranx to an exclusive administration deal covering future works, as part of its joint venture with Tileyard Music Publishing.
With more than 2 billion streams and over 1 billion YouTube views worldwide, Banx & Ranx are JUNO Award winning, GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY Award-nominated Zacharie ‘Soké’ Raymond and Yannick ‘KNY Factory’ Rastogi.
Montreal-based Zacharie and Yannick have produced, co-written and collaborated with a long list of international superstars including Dua Lipa, BLACKPINK, DJ Snake, Jungkook, Nicky Jam, Sean Paul, Sia, Ty Dolla $ign, David Guetta, Beenie Man, Shenseea, T-Pain, Ellie Goulding, Diplo, Major Lazer, Gorillaz and many more.
The duo achieved Platinum status in the UK with Answerphone and multi-Platinum certification on three consecutive Top 10 radio singles (Headphones, CTRL + ALT + DEL, and Flowers Need Rain) with breakout artists Rêve and Preston Pablo.
Peter McCamley, Creative Director at Sentric, said: “We are delighted to extend our partnership with Tileyard and to kick this off by signing Zacharie and Yannick is beyond exciting. The incredible songwriting talent of the duo is evident in their previous successes, of which some I have been lucky to work with them on. I am thrilled to start working with Steve Jervier and the team again and excited to see the creative expertise that the Tileyard team will also bring into this partnership.”
Tileyard Music co-founder Charlie Arme said: “Having had massive success with Yannick and Soke over the years and getting to know them as people and creatives at various writing camps and sessions, we are so honoured that they have chosen us to be their publishing home. Their continued worldwide success along with the tenacity and hard work of their management team now combining forces with the Tileyard A&R team and Sentric team will be a long-standing and hugely fruitful working relationship.”
Banx and Ranx said: "When the opportunity came up to do a publishing deal with Charlie, Michael and Cathy at Tileyard and Peter McCamley at Sentric we did not hesitate to say yes. We’re so excited by this new publishing model! It's the future."