Danny Ryan

Managing Director • Kudos Records Limited

Danny Ryan is Managing Director of Kudos Records Limited, an independent distribution company based in Kentish Town, London. Kudos works with hundreds of independent labels within genres ranging from Electronica, Jazz and World Music to Folk, Funk and Soul.

Danny's music industry career started as a sales clerk at Tower Records over 35 years ago. After occupying a number of sales and label management posts, he founded Kudos Records in 1992 to provide distribution services to the emerging "producer run" electronic and house labels of the time. Kudos is now one of the only fully independent distributors in the UK to offer a completely in-house physical and digital distribution service.