Paul Hitchman

Founded in 1997, AWAL is a leading independent digital marketing and distribution company that enables artists and labels to release their music globally, whilst retaining ownership and control of their rights. AWAL is the trusted partner for more than 6,000 artists and labels. Early successes included Arctic Monkeys, and Editors, whilst AWAL currently distributes music from Moby, Beck, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Prince and Gabrielle Aplin. AWAL also represent some of the leading names in comedy, including Tim Minchin, Russell Brand, Stewart Lee, Ed Byrne, Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie and many more. AWAL has relationships worldwide with every major online retailer and DSP – from iTunes to Amazon, Spotify to Beatport, eMusic to Rdio. With fast turnaround from content upload to delivery in stores, AWAL is also a ‘preferred supplier’ to iTunes. AWAL clients can view their sales online, on-demand and up to the previous day, plus every AWAL client can log in to their own BuzzDeck whereby sales data can be viewed in conjunction with social media and web site statistics. Since 2011, AWAL has been integrated into the Kobalt Music Group, with Kobalt now providing AWAL with the expertise of a leading technology company, as well as unparalleled transparency in the reporting and accounting of data to its clients.