Kobalt is the leading independent music services company. KobaltÍs Music Publishing, Label Services, and Neighboring Rights divisions each offer an alternative to the traditional music business model, empowering artists, songwriters, publishers and labels with advanced technology, transparency, flexibility, ownership and control. KobaltÍs innovative technology solutions are designed to maximize efficiency and accuracy across the billions of micro-payments collected in todayÍs highly complex digital world. With over 325 employees in 10 offices around the world, Kobalt represents over 8,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, providing them with real-time, powerful, transparent reporting through the award-winning Kobalt Portal. Kobalt works with some of the worldÍs greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Grohl, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Pitbull, Ellie Goulding, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, One Republic, Skrillex, Gwen Stefani, Akon, Ryan Tedder, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.