Professor Green Signs to Cooking Vinyl!

02 August 2021 - Press release

Cooking Vinyl are proud to announce the signing of multi-platinum artist Professor Green to a worldwide artist services deal, with new music planned for release in 2021 with a rescheduled run of UK shows early 2022. 

“To join a label so renowned, offering me the freedom to release music at the momentum I’ve been itching to tickles me in all the right places. No more major label bureaucracy and red tape, just enthusiasm and aligning values. With the most pro-active publishers I’ve experienced (Concord), amazing live and branding agents (CAA) and my career long management (Bitter & Twisted), Cooking Vinyl are what was the missing piece of the puzzle, now it’s over to me to deliver the music. And the fun begins, not that it ever stopped” – Professor Green 

“Pro Green is a bona fide legend so when I heard the quality of the songs and chatted with him on Zoom and got to know him a bit,  I knew that Cooking Vinyl would be able to provide the perfect environment for him to flourish as an artist again.  There’s a lot of great songs just bursting to be heard and I can’t wait to turn a few heads” – Rob Collins, Cooking Vinyl M.D 

Professor Green, born Stephen Paul Manderson, who hails from Hackney, rose to fame in 2007 after being noticed by Mike Skinner (The Streets). Green subsequently signed to Virgin in 2010 and has released three studio albums to date with a combined 3.5 million sales in the UK – Alive Till I’m Dead (#2 UK album charts), At Your Inconvenience (#3 UK album charts) and Growing Up In Public (#12 UK album charts). 

In addition to his acclaimed music career, Green has been outspoken on mental health issues and is a patron of the suicide prevention charity CALM. Subsequently Green has gone on to present documentaries for the BBC surrounding mental health, as well as other important issues. 

Cooking Vinyl, established in 1986, is home to an eclectic mix of artists including Nina Nesbitt, Will Young, Passenger, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Billy Bragg, The Fratellis, Del Amitri, BABYMETAL, Fickle Friends, Lucy Spraggan and many more. Recent successes include Nina Nesbitt surpassing 600M streams, Passenger securing #2 UK Album, #2 Swiss Album, #3 German Album, #6 Australian Album, Del Amitri #5 UK album and BABYMETAL securing #2 Current Albums, #1 Rock & Indie and #13 Billboard Top 200 in the US. 

Cooking Vinyl has consistently been at the forefront of the digital revolution and evolution. In 2005 the label set up its own online distribution company, Uploader, which was sold to the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA). Subsequently Cooking Vinyl then set up the independent distribution company Essential Music which was bought by Sony Red in 2016 and soon after became The Orchard UK.