{"id":232198,"date":"2026-05-03T03:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-a15-records-ninth-exit-with-viral-wave-sale\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:32:56","slug":"egypts-a15-records-ninth-exit-with-viral-wave-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-a15-records-ninth-exit-with-viral-wave-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s A15 Records Ninth Exit With Viral Wave Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A15 said it has exited its investment in Viral Wave following its acquisition by PopArabia, marking the firm&#8217;s ninth exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Viral Wave, founded in 2023 and spun out of ARPUPlus, provides digital music distribution, YouTube management and monetisation services across global streaming platforms. The company manages a catalogue with more than 55 billion streams and works with regional artists across the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Under the deal, Viral Wave will operate as PopArabia&#8217;s distribution&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A15 said it has exited its investment in Viral Wave following its acquisition by PopArabia, marking the firm&#8217;s ninth exit. Viral Wave, founded in 2023 and spun out of ARPUPlus, provides digital music distribution, YouTube management and monetisation services across global streaming platforms. The company manages a catalogue with more than 55 billion streams and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[53312,258,256,415,6989,17162,257,14210,6850,6397,254,13080,8942],"class_list":["post-232198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-a15","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-exit","tag-news","tag-ninth","tag-records","tag-sale","tag-south-africa-today","tag-viral","tag-wave"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}