As Redeye Worldwide, the global distribution and music services company, celebrated its 30th anniversary, distributed labels, retail store owners, digital music service providers and staff from both Redeye and its parent company, Exceleration Music, converged on the company’s home in Durham, N.C., for its annual Label Hang.

In all, almost 250 people attended the three-day conference, which ran from Oct. 13-15. During the gathering, Exceleration and Redeye executives laid out their vision of what supplementary services they want to offer their labels while helping them achieve economies of scale. The conference served as a forum that allowed attendees to listen and exchange ideas on how to deal with industry issues, opportunities and problems.

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Exceleration — which bought RedEye and its in-house labels Yep Roc and Sundazed in 2023 —was born in early 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic — a time when a lot of private equity money was floating into the industry looking for assets to buy.…