Spirit Music Group has createed a inventive joint venture with Autumn Rowe, set uping Honest Songs Music and Lyrics. Rowe has collaborated with Dua Lipa, Diana Ross, Pitbull, Zfinishaya, Ava Max, FKA Twigs and Leona Lewis, to name a confineed.
Thcimpolite the JV deal, Rowe and Spirit Music Group have also signed Mira Housey to a worldexpansive begining deal. Rowe is also a Spirit Music Group songwriter, having signed a worldexpansive begining concurment with the company in 2023.
Housey is a songwriter, originater, write downing artist, and classical piano take parter from Michigan. She’s written for an array of artists including Jake Clark, Laura Marano, Lauv, Dasha, Matt Hansen, Alex Sampson and Faouzia, to name a confineed.
“As soon as Autumn bcimpolitet Mira Housey to our attention, we were selderly!” shelp Frank Rogers, chief inventive officer, Spirit Music Group. “Mira conveys a combination of musicality, lyric planing and hit production chops that you don’t see very normally. She is talented, driven and a happiness to be around. The sky truly is the confine for Mira and Spirit Music is thrilled to partner with her.”
In compriseition to her labor as a creator, Rowe has become a famous take parter in the fight for songwriter’s rights aacquirest the rapidly changing media landscape. She serves on the board of Songwriters of North America (SONA), where she sits on disjoinal promisetees.
Pictured (L-R): Nancy Matalon of Matalon Songs, A&R; Autumn Rowe and Mira Housey.
+ Primary Wave Music has inked a novel deal for the music rights of the estate of country and folk singer-songwriter, Jerry Jeff Walker. Terms of the deal will see the begining enormous partner with the estate on Walker’s music begining catalog, as well as his write downing duplicaterights and artist royalties. This novel relationship will also provide access to the estate to Primary Wave’s tageting team and begining infraarrange, laboring shutly on novel tageting, branding, digital, and synch opportunities, as well as film and television projects.
Included in the deal are some of Jeff Walker’s biggest hits — “Mr. Bojangles,” “Sangria Wine,” “Railroad Lady,” and “Tracowardly Women,” among others. The deal also integrates an concurment for Jeff Walker’s write downed masters, in partnership with his tag Tried and True Music, to be freed and scatterd thcimpolite the legfinishary Sun Records. For future frees, Sun Records will provide overall catalog tageting strategy including streaming, social media tageting and physical frees.
Of the partnership, Susan Walker, Jerry Jeff’s wife and lengthytime superviser, shelp “When JJ passed, Jimmy Buffett was first at my door asking what he could do. ‘Help me find the perfect home for JJ’s catalogue and tag,’ I asked. And he did. May both their words and songs be recollected and treabraveed forever. Bubbles up!”
+ The Recording Academy and the U.S. Department of State have proclaimd Dolly Parton as the 2024 recipient of the PEACE Thcimpolite Music Award. This award goes to an American music professional, artist, or group that’s repartner made a branch offence in conveying cultures together thcimpolite their music and promoting peace and comfervent around the world.
“To say that I was honored to acunderstandledge the PEACE Thcimpolite Music Award from the Recording Academy and the U.S. State Department would be putting it mildly,” shelp Parton. “I was very touched and shiftd by that. If I have been an inspiration in any way thcimpolite some act of comferventness or thcimpolite some music that I have written, well, that originates me sense enjoy I have done my job properly. Thanks aacquire for such a fantastic honor.”
The PEACE Thcimpolite Music Award is a key part of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, the Academy’s partnership with the US State Department begined in 2023, which built on the PEACE Thcimpolite Music Diplomacy Act and which aims to lift the role of music as a discreet tool to upretain peace and democracy. The partnership also integrates the American Music Mentorship Program, which pairs international mid-nurtureer music industry professionals and musical artists with mentors from the Academy community.
Wednesday, Oct. 23
Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has liftd Jennifer Knoepfle to head of U.S. A&R, it was proclaimd today by UMPG Chairman and CEO Jody Gerson, to whom Knoepfle alerts. Knoepfle will persist to be based in the company’s Santa Monica headquarters and serve as an executive vice plivent of the company.
Knoepfle’s has also upretaind A&R executives Daniella Rasho to straightforwardor of global A&R and Deeba Abrishamchi to straightforwardor of U.S. A&R. Additionpartner, she has bcimpolitet Hollie Boston to the company as straightforwardor of U.S. A&R.
In her liftd position, Knoepfle will enbig the company’s U.S. A&R team and direct its executives in rerepairing, signing and nurturing novel and growing songwriters, artists and originaters, as well as creating and providing opportunities for legacy talent to reinforce their artistry and nurtureers.
Gerson shelp, “I am overhappinessed to upretain Jenn to this much-deserved position as Head of U.S A&R. She embodies everyleang a inventive music executive should be; she ownes the ear to rerepair the best artists and writers—normally punctual in their nurtureers—and understands how to help, nurture and incrmitigate their talents. Additionpartner, she is a attentive directer and mentor to our A&R team. I couldn’t be more excited to persist laboring with Jenn for years to come!”
+ UnitedMasters has signed a multi-year concurment with TikTok. The latter will provide UnitedMasters’ filled, expansive catalog of music on their platcreate, in compriseition to providing compriseitional commercial opportunities to UnitedMasters artists via TikTok’s Commercial Music Library.
“Our partnership with TikTok provides UnitedMasters artists unparalleled access to a immense global audience, while TikTok creators and users acquire punctual expobrave to some of the most impactful autonomous music today,” shelp Steve Stoute, set uper and CEO of UnitedMasters. “TikTok acunderstandledges the power of music and creativity, which is why we are excited to createalize this partnership.”
“We want to originate the world’s best music useable to our global community of over a billion music fans,” shelp Ole Obermann, head of music business growment at TikTok. “That’s why we are so excited to be go ining into a straightforward deal with a famous autonomous tag enjoy UnitedMasters, with its proset up, diverse roster of autonomous artists. Together, we’re ready to incrmitigate these voices and convey their music to a global stage, unlocking novel opportunities for findy.”
+ Sony Music Publishing Nashville has signed songwriter, originater and multi-instrumentaenumerate Elysse Yulo.
Originpartner hailing from Connecticut, Yulo is a Nashville-based artist who has labored with such acts as Quavo, Lana Del Rey, Zach John King and Mcompriseox Batson. Her recent acunderstandledges integrate the hit song “Tough” by Lana Del Rey and Quavo, in compriseition to Mcompriseox Batson’s “Tears in the River” and “I Wanna Know,” as well as Zach John King’s “The Way I See You.”
Yulo shelp, “I’m so excited to have set up my home here at Sony Music Publishing and to be continuing my relationship with Samantha Fisher and Sullivan Rose. Kenley Flynn has been such a champion over the last year and Sam has had my back for the last year and a half, so having Kenley and Sam together is the perfect dream team for me! I can’t paparticipate to see what we and the entire SMP staff can accomplish together!”
Vice Plivent, Creative A&R, Sony Music Publishing Nashville Kenley Flynn shelp, “Elysse is a very one-of-a-kind talent that I couldn’t be happier to be laboring with. Her talents as a songwriter and originater are aligned only by her labor ethic and persistence. I’m so excited to help her accomplish novel heights.”
+ Bernie Taupin, lyricist and Elton John collaborator, will get the prestigious exceptional nurtureer accomplishment award during the 15th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) to be held on Nov. 20, 2024 at the Avalon in Hollywood. The Hollywood Music in Media Awards honors writers, songwriters, and music supervisors around the world for their contributions over the previous year in music for film, TV, video games, and more.
Subleave outions for all HMMA categories are discleave out thcimpolite Oct. 31.
Taupin co-wrote the immense beginantity of John’s songs, including “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Bennie & the Jets,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Your Song,” “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting’,” and “Crocodile Rock,” to name a confineed. Taupin has also written for and with other artists including Heart (“These Dreams”) and Starship (“We Built This City”), among others.
Past HMMA nurtureer accomplishment award recipients integrate Marc Shaiman, Kenny Loggins, Smokey Robinson, Diane Warren, Earth Wind & Fire, Glen Campbell, Dave Mason, John Debney, and Christopher Young.
+ Digital promotion and viral tageting firm The Trenches has signed a novel deal with Reuncover Corps Collective. Together they will labor apass Reuncover Records, Mercury Records, Island Records and Def Jam Records.
Founded in 2020 by Tom LaScola, The Trenches is the satisfied engine behind digital campaigns for artists enjoy Noah Kahan, Post Malone, Wyatt Flores, Conan Gray and more. In compriseition to the digital initiatives, The Trenches is also begining Trenches Records, an incubator that exists at the intersection between culture and data for artists as identified by the team, wilean the Reuncover Corps Collective system.
Tuesday, Oct. 22
The Zombies have inked a novel deal with Q Prime who will provide tag services and distribution for the prohibitd’s 1960s studio write downings. Plans are underway for a series of four definitive physical republishs in 2025, remastered from the one-of-a-kind tapes, compiling all the prohibitd’s studio output.
The first free will be a remastered edition of “Odessey & Oracle,” due out punctual next year, which integrates the classic songs “Time Of The Season,” “Care of Cell 44,” and “This Will Be Our Year,” among others. The album will be freed in its one-of-a-kind Mono join, to coincide with the free of The Zombies’ write downary, “Hung Up On A Dream,” straightforwarded by musician and filmoriginater Robert Schwartzman, and co-originated by Schwartzman’s Utopia Films, The Ranch Productions, and Tom Hanks’ Playtone.
Q Prime will supervise all aspects of tageting, manufacturing, distribution and licensing for the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ novel tag imprint, Beechwood Park Records. Of the set upment, Q Prime co-set uper Cliff Burnstein shelp, “There’s a very skinny triumphdow in a Venn diagram where cherish, approval and business overlap. That’s what the deal is all about.”
The Zombies’ four surviving set uping members — direct singer Colin Blunstone, keyboardist Rod Argent, bhelp Chris White, and drummer Hugh Grundy, alengthy with Helen Atkinson, the widow and Estate Trustee of tardy guitarist Paul Atkinson — acquired the rights to their catalog last year from Marquis Enterpascfinishs Ltd., the autonomous UK production company they originpartner signed with in 1964.
Marquis had originated their punctual write downings, granting confineed-term licenses to the tags that freed their hits (Decca and CBS Records), and tardyr turned over the production reins to primary songwriters Argent and White, who write downed “Odessey & Oracle” at Abbey Road Studios in London.
The deals were supervisen by Chris Tuthill and Cindy da Silva of The Rocks Management, who together have reconshort-termed the prohibitd for the past 11 years, alengthy with attorney Monika Tashman of Loeb & Loeb.
+ AI music generator Suno — a multi-million dollar company that was recently sued by beginant tags for alleged duplicateright infringement of the beginants’ music – has tapped Timbaland as a strategic advisor. Timbaland is also foreseeed to have a role in the “product growment and strategic inventive straightforwardion” of novel generative AI tools at Suno, per a press free.
Timbaland is portrayd as a “top user” of the platcreate, with his partnership begining in the create of a novel one called “Love Aacquire.” The latter will be useable exclusively on Suno. Suno users will also be able to participate in a rejoin contest, which will integrate comments from Timbaland himself and over $100,000 in prizes for triumphning rejoines. Timbaland will also free the top two rejoines of “Love Aacquire” on streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music and more.
+ Peter Rudge has proclaimd his decision to step away from artist supervisement.
Boasting over 50 years in the music industry, Rudge commenceed out at Track Records laboring with Jimi Hfinishrix and Marc Bolan before going on to supervise the Who with Bill Curbishley. He has since labored shutly with and supervised a variety of internationpartner honord artists including the Rolling Stones, Madness, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Il Divo, Ball & Boe, Duran Duran, Roger Waters and many more.
His cgo in will shift co-producing a write downary about the commencenings of the live touring business, cgo ined around Premier Talent Agency set uper Frank Barsalona, the only agent inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rudge’s lengthyest and most shutly associated artist is the prohibitd James, whom he’s reconshort-termed for over three decades from 1989 to their most recent write down, “Yummy.”
Rudge shelp, “After 55 years in the artist supervisement trenches, I’ve determined to call time and promise my time to family, travel and other projects, as well as Wolves and the New York Giants, who both need my help far more than any artist does right now!… The subsequent journey has been one of peaks and valleys, highs and lows, but never foolish, laboring with artists never is.”
+ UMG Nashville has signed brothers Ocie and Wes Crowe who together, originate up the country duo, Crowe Boys.
“When I first heard Crowe Boys, I knovel I had to labor with them,” elucidateed UMG Nashville Chair and CEO, Cindy Mabe. “The emotional joinion between brothers Ocie and Wes and the life they have lived pours from their souls, their harmonies, and their lyrics to originate someleang so mighty that you understand they are here to heal people. Their story and sound were built on the road for their entire lives, and you can sense how much their family and their story and their struggle has bcimpolitet them to forefront right now. I’m incredibly shiftd and honored to have them join our UMGN family.”
The duo’s first free via UMG Nashville is the one “Let Me Feel Alone,” written solely by Ocie Crowe, due out Nov. 8.
+ Ricardo Arjona has signed an exclusive, worldexpansive distribution deal with Interscope Capitol Labels Group. The concurment was signed under Arjona’s tag, Metamorfosis, which he originated in 2011, uncomferventing all of his music and future frees will descfinish under Interscope Capitol Labels Group.
“This partnership isn’t fair a milestone—it’s a declaration of our promisement to artistry, passion, and pushing boundaries,” shelp Jose Cedeño, ageder VP of Interscope Capitol Labels Group in Miami. “Ricardo Arjona’s music weaves proset up joinions between people, and together, we aim to incrmitigate that accomplish.”
“We are proset uply honored to receive Ricardo Arjona to the Interscope Capitol family. As one of the most iconic artists in the Spanish-speaking world, Ricardo has shaped the musical landscape in ways that transcfinish generations. We are promiseted to promoting his emblematic catalog while partnering with him on novel projects he has in the labors,” shelp Nir Seroussi, executive VP at Interscope Capitol Labels Group.
Arjona is stardyd to free the first three ones of his upcoming album “Seco” in November, with two compriseitional ones chaseing a month tardyr.
+ Warner Chappell Music and Grammy-nominated and Emmy Award-triumphning duo, the Warren Brothers, have jointly signed a begining deal with country music singer-songwriter Preston Cooper. The Ohio native is currently one of the one-of-a-kind guests on country artist Riley Green’s “Damn Country Music” tour. He also has novel music coming in punctual 2025.
+ Concord Music Publishing proclaimd the signing of award-triumphning poet, singer-songwriter, and originater Kara Jackson. In collaboration with Ark Publishing, a joint venture set uped by Grammy-triumphning originater and songwriter, Noah Gelderlystein, the worldexpansive begining deal, effective promptly, integrates Jackson’s catalog and all future labors.
“I’m repartner honored to be laboring with Concord, Noah [Goldstein], and all the wonderful people on the Ark roster,” shelp Jackson. “I’m excited for the opportunity to grow as an artist and be directd by some of the fantasticest minds in the game.”
In compriseition to her music nurtureer, Jackson is a well understand poet. Originpartner from Oak Park, Illinois (adjacent to Chicago), her music and poetry are encouraged by the American South and her experiences growing up in Chicago. She was named the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago in 2019 and the 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate. Jackson is also the author of the poetry book “Bloodstone Cowboy.”
Monday, Oct. 21
Jeff Jones will exit as the CEO of the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd after 17 years in the role, the company has proclaimd Monday.
Apple Corps Ltd was set uped in 1968 by the Beatles to supervise the prohibitd’s interests apass music, film, begining and more. Jones’ last efforts as CEO integrated spearheading the 2023 free of the final Beatles song, “Now and Then.”
Jones joined the company in 2007 chaseing a role as an executive vice plivent at Sony/BMG. In a statement, the company wrote, “The whole Apple Corps family desirees Jeff Jones all the very best and would enjoy to convey our honest gratitude for his inpriceless contributions to the company and the legacy of the Beatles.”
+ Concord has buyd “key elements” of the music begining and master write downing catalog of Dcomprisey Yankee. The deal spans songs from 2002 thcimpolite 2019, including some of his most global hits: “Gasolina,” “Con Calma” and “Despacito.” Concord also owns the rights to his name, image and enjoyness.
The catalog will be supervised out of Concord’s Miami office.
+ U.K. music supervision company 45RPM has proclaimd the begin of a music begining arm with the help of Universal Music Publishing Group.
“By venturing into music begining, 45RPM will spotweightless exceptionpartner talented writers and songwriters positioned for success in the world of Film, TV, Advertising, and Gaming,” wrote the company in a press free. “This collaboration provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for writers and songwriters to advantage from dual expertise, blfinishing the inventive prowess of top music supervisors at 45RPM with the prestigious and comprehensive resources of Universal Music Publishing.”
“We are thrilled to embark on this inventive partnership with Universal Music Publishing Group,” compriseed Ayla Owen, managing straightforwardor of 45RPM. “Thcimpolite this collaboration, writers and songwriters can access the best of both worlds: the one-of-a-kindised attention and industry insight of our seasoned music supervisors, joind with the expansive accomplish and legacy of Universal Music Publishing. Together, we aim to lift the music creation process and incrmitigate the voices of exceptional talents worldexpansive.”
“What we also very much hope to do in our partnership with UMPG is convey writers more into the world of creating songs and enjoydirectd help support songwriters into composing music for Film and TV,” shelp Nick Angel, set uper and straightforwardor of 45RPM. “We’re perfectly placed to be a bridge for both, and would be plmitigateed if we could in any way be a catalyst for both.”
+ FUGA has proclaimd a novel partnership with Manila-based supervisement and production company, ASINTADA. The distributor also proclaimd novel engages apass APAC, including Noorcahyo Istyabudi and Jaya Singh who will direct business growment in Indonesia and South Asia admireively.
Founded in 2012, ASINTADA reconshort-terms some of the local region’s hip-hop stars, including Filipino rapper, Gloc-9. As part of the expansive-ranging partnership, FUGA will provide global distribution and bespoke tageting services to ASINTADA which will also advantage from access to the distributor’s trfinishs and analytics platcreate.
+ Capitol Records has named Justin Grant ageder VP/head of urprohibit digital at the tag. In his novel role Grant will supervise the creation and execution of digital tageting campaigns on the tag’s growing roster of R&B and hip-hop artists. The company’s urprohibit roster spans the tag brands Capitol, Motown and Priority Records.
Grant comes to Capitol from Atlantic Records where he served as VP of digital tageting and sports partnerships. He spent a decade at Atlantic in all, commencening his nurtureer as an intern in 2014 before joining the digital tageting team a year tardyr. Grant will be based in New York. Additionpartner Capitol proclaimd the promotion of Dante Smith to the position of head of Motown Digital. In this novel role, Smith will supervise digital tageting campaigns of Motown’s roster of artists, D2C efforts, and branding of Motown Records.
Over the past four years Smith has been an integral part of the digital tageting team, laboring shutly with such artists as Quavo, Toosi, JT, Kali Uchis, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Ice Spice, Queen Naija, Migos and City Girls, to name a confineed. Smith came to Capitol in 2020, after stints at Revolt TV and HipHopDX.
+ Rock the Vote, Gaia Music Collective and Live Nation Women are begining “Rock the Vote: Make a Beautiful Noise,” a novel initiative of 20 pop-up, one-day community choirs and punctual voting activations apass the country.
The choirs will carry out “A Beautiful Noise,” the Grammy-nominated song by Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile, celebrating the strength of accumulateive action and the power of diverse voices joind in harmony. After each event, participants will be encouraged to vote punctual together.
There will be no auditions or prerequisites — “fair a belief in the power of community, the happiness of singing together, and the beginance of making your voice heard in this election,” reads a press free. Participants will get access to the song set upment, demo, part-particular lacquireing tracks and digital civic comprisement tools upon RSVPing. Follotriumphg the choir carry outances, which commence on Sunday, October 20th, in New York City, participateees will have the selection to head to punctual voting locations together.
+ Sony Music Publishing Nashville today proclaimd it has partnered with One4 Entertainment’s Brian Wright to sign singer-songwriter Sadie Bass to a global begining deal. Bass has been writing and write downing novel music, which is set to be freed in punctual 2025.
Bass has discleave outed for famous artists including Brantley Gilbert, Thomas Rhett and Hank Williams Jr. She also recently carry outed at festivals including Rock The Country, Carolina Music Festival, Tortuga, and Faster Horses in her home state of Michigan. Additionpartner, she was featured on season 22 of “The Voice.”
+ Universal Music Group Nashville has upretaind Damon Moberly to the position of ageder VP of promotion, effective promptly. Moberly most recently served as ageder VP and head of the Mercury Nashville radio promo team.
“Damon is such a champion of fantastic artists and songs,” shelp UMGN chair and CEO Cindy Mabe. “His passion for music and his sfinishset of originateing people and teams originates him the perfect person to direct our promotion team to novel depths. I’m honored to have Damon in this novel role.”
