Tag: publishing

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green’s estate strikes music rights deal with Primary Wave

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:00:37 +0000

Company to acquire assets in Green’s Rattlesnake music publishing catalog, plus his interest in all compositions written by him, as well as certain recordings

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Kobalt inks publishing deal with country songwriter Derrick Southerland, acquires portion of song catalog

admin — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:40:13 +0000

Southerland was nominated for a Grammy, and won several other awards, for his work on Ingrid Andress' 'More Hearts Than Mine'

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Kobalt’s new publishing platform KOSIGN already represents 12k songs… where is it going next?

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:46:43 +0000

MBW meets Jason Feinberg, Senior Vice President and Head of Kobalt's new publishing platform, KOSIGN

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UMPG’s David Gray on UK music, global ambitions, and why breaking artists still matters

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:39:29 +0000

Last year, David Gray was flying high at Universal Music Publishing Group in the States as a globally respected A&R exec. Then he was offered his ‘dream job’ of running the publisher’s UK company – a role that’s now underway. MBW meets him in London...

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Margherita Gnech elevated to Managing Director of Italy at Sony Music Publishing

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:30:35 +0000

Based out of Milan, Gnech will report directly to Sony Music Publishing President, International Guy Henderson.

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‘Music fans nowadays are so immersed in the online world, they can see what’s real and what’s manufactured.’

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:17:22 +0000

MBW's World Leaders series meets Niels Walboomers, President, Recorded Music and Publishing, Benelux, Warner Music Group, which includes powerhouse dance label Spinnin’ Records

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US music publishing revenue jumped 13.4% to $7bn in 2024, outpacing the growth rate of recorded music

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:11:32 +0000

Recovered unpaid royalties accounted for 27% of music publishing revenues last year, the NMPA's David Israelite said

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Universal Music and Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell launch joint venture with backing from Silver Lake

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:42:06 +0000

JV to 'accelerate commercial opportunities for UMG’s artists and artist estates in rapidly growing areas outside traditional recorded music and music publishing'

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Anthem Music Publishing acquires Marty Robbins song catalog

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:40:29 +0000

The acquisition covers more than 500 songs released across 72 albums spanning the late 1940s through the early 1980s.

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Music publishing brings in $11.1bn annually across 16 major markets, first-ever ICMP survey finds

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:14:36 +0000

ICMP hopes snapshot of publishing revenue across major markets will be a valuable tool for understanding the nature of the business

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‘A&R is based on three things: trust, relationship and accountability.’

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:32:03 +0000

After more than two decades with the majors, Amanda Hill now heads up Runner Music, the publishing company founded in 2023 by Ryan Tedder, Ron Laffitte and Andrew Sparkler. Here she discusses her career to date, artist development and archaic business models

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Bob Sinclar signs global deal with Warner Chappell Music

admin — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:47:54 +0000

The deal covers a catalog of more than 350 works written or composed by the French DJ.

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Kobalt signs global deal with Música Mexicana specialist K Music Publishing

admin — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:44:08 +0000

K Music was founded in 2019 by CEOs Alfredo Becerra & Leonardo Soto and songwriter/producer Carlos Santos

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Downtown expands presence in Africa, as Sheer rebrands to Downtown Music Publishing Africa

admin — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:27:01 +0000

Sheer was acquired by DMP parent Downtown Music Holdings in 2020

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Payday Music Publishing inks deal with estate of ‘Under the Boardwalk’ co-writer Kenny Young

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:34:42 +0000

Young was best known for co-writing the Grammy Hall of Fame song Under the Boardwalk, first a 1964 hit for the Drifters and later popularized by the Rolling Stones.

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