Music executives Ángel del Villar and Javier “El Tamarido” Gonzalez joined forces to start a new distribution company, DSTRO7. Del Villar's indie label DEL Records will be distributed exclusively by DSTRO7, as will González's Tamarindo Rekordsz, which he founded in 2012.
According to a press release, the company will focus on music streaming, monetization, promotion, marketing, data and analytics, and creative services such as recording, production, mixing, mastering and video production. According to a company spokesperson, DSTRO7 currently has a “wide variety of customers.”
The label launch follows a huge year for DEL Records. Founded by del Villar in 2008, the label is home to the Música mexicana supergroup Eslabon Armado, whose global hit, “Ella Baila Sola” featuring Peso Pluma, became one of the biggest songs of 2023. With more than 600 million official streams on demand in the United States, according to Luminate, the track reached No. 1 on the year-end Hot Latin Songs chart. Last year, Eslabon also scored its sixth leader Advertising signThe Regional Mexican Albums Chart.
DEL Records previously had distribution deals with Ingrooves and Virgin Music, although a spokesperson for the company confirms that DSTRO7 will now be its exclusive distributor.
The new distribution deal marks a new beginning for Tamarindo Rekordsz. In December 2022, González and regional Mexican star Carin León announced that they had mutually agreed to separate after a five-year relationship during which León earned his first Latin Grammy win as well as 11 entries on the Hot Latin Songs chart and 10 top 10 songs on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart. Months after the two split, González filed a lawsuit against the distribution company Oplaai – Tamarindo's distributor since 2018 – for copyright infringement over claims that Oplaai underpaid him for revenue from León's music.
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