Nenad Manojlovic Leaves Grand After a Decade
After a decade with Grand production, the singer has moved to EMDC Network, which now runs his YouTube channel and digital music distribution and has announced his first studio album.
Serbian singer Nenad Manojlovic has ended his ten year partnership with Grand production, according to a report the portal Republika published late in the evening on September 8. In place of his longtime label, Manojlovic now has his own YouTube channel and a new partner handling his digital career.
That partner is EMDC Network, a company taking over the administration and management of his YouTube channel, as well as the distribution of his music on streaming platforms. Manojlovic first shared the decision with his followers on social media, and the company’s official confirmation of the partnership followed soon after.
EMDC Network addressed the new partnership in a statement.
“We are pleased to welcome Nenad Manojlovic to EMDC Network! As part of our cooperation, EMDC Network will be responsible for the administration and management of the YouTube channel, as well as the digital distribution of music on the leading streaming platforms. We look forward to working together, to new releases and to everything that follows.”
Behind that message is an announcement that the team is only just starting work on new releases, and the first of them will mark a special moment in the singer’s career. From the division of duties EMDC Network laid out, it follows that Manojlovic will decide on the content he publishes himself, while the new company takes over the technical and distribution side, meaning everything that goes out to streaming services.
Manojlovic is preparing his first studio album, the first of his entire career so far. Until now he has released only individual singles, with no full length record, so the album marks a shift from his previous approach. He is working on it with composer Petar Stokanovic, the author of his biggest hit, “Ti meni, ja tebi.” Stokanovic remains one of the few collaborators Manojlovic has kept working with after the split from Grand, while the rest of the team around the singer is changing along with the change of label.
The departure from Grand comes months after a celebration in his private life. According to Republika, Manojlovic and his wife welcomed their third child in late May. His wife avoids media appearances, and little is publicly known about her. To mark the birth, the singer organized a celebration at a restaurant for a close circle of friends and family, where he appeared together with his wife, though there has been no public statement about the birth of the third child until now.
In its own report on the split from Grand, Kurir also describes Manojlovic as the brother of singer Rada Manojlovic.
Manojlovic is not the only name to leave Grand production this year. Ana Bekuta departed from the label before him, so the split with a ten year collaborator comes amid a string of roster changes at the country’s biggest production house. Within a few months, Grand has lost two performers who had long been part of its lineup.
Laid out chronologically, the sequence looks like this. In late May, Manojlovic and his wife welcomed their third child, followed soon after by a family celebration at a restaurant, and then, late on September 8, came the news of the split from Grand production and the start of the partnership with EMDC Network. The announcement of a debut studio album with Petar Stokanovic closes out that sequence, although the record’s release date is not yet known.
As of this article’s publication, neither Grand nor Manojlovic personally has offered further comment on the details of the split, nor specified a release date for the new album. For now, the only official source on the new partnership remains the statement from EMDC Network, while the singer has not addressed the details in a separate interview or post of his own.
