Music News (5/3/17)

Hillary Lindsey Teams With Rezonant Music Publishing And BMG

Hillary Lindsey

Hillary Lindsey has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with a unique partnership of Rezonant Music Publishing and BMG. The agreement covers Lindsey’s catalog worldwide as well as future compositions. The partnership agreement between Rezonant and BMG where BMG will provide creative and synch services.

Receiving her fifth nomination at the 2017 Grammy Awards, for the Keith Urban No. 1 song “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” Lindsey was also recently nominated for Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year at the 52nd ACM Awards.

With 18 chart-topping singles, Lindsey is the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song (“Coming Home”) and a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song (“There’s A Place For Us”). Lady Gaga’s most recent chart-topping album Joanne featured several songs penned by Lindsey including the hit “Million Reasons” which she performed in duet with Gaga on Saturday Night Live and which Gaga performed during the Super Bowl LI halftime show.

 
Disney Music Group, Patrick Joseph Music Renew Deal With Songwriter Melissa Peirce

Pictured (L-R): Bradley Collins, Executive Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, BMI; Ciara Shortridge, A&R Representative, Disney Music Group Nashville; Leslie Roberts, Executive Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, BMI; Melissa Peirce; Pat Higdon, President/Owner, Patrick Joseph Music; Austen Adams, Dickinson Wright PLLC

Disney Music Group and Patrick Joseph Music have renewed their publishing deal with songwriter Melissa Peirce.

In addition to her No. 1 hit single “A Guy Walks Into A Bar,” recorded by Tyler Farr, Peirce co-wrote “Hurt” on Lady Antebellum’s upcoming Heart Break album, and has had her songs recorded by Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Reba, Hunter Hayes, David Nail (“Red Light”), Lindsey Ell, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Holt and several songs for Disney projects, including an original song that will play during Walt Disney World’s iconic fireworks spectacular, “Happily Ever After” to debut May 12.

Writer’s Den Music Group Signs Brennen Leigh

Pictured (L-R): Jody Williams, BMI; Brennen Leigh; Bobby Rymer and Sarah Feldman, Writer’s Den Music Group; Mason Hunter, BMI

Writer’s Den Music Group has signed writer-artist Brennen Leigh to a worldwide publishing agreement.

Brennen is a member of the band High Plains Jamboree, currently working on an album to be released later this year.

Jack White Signs First Global Publishing Deal With UMPG

Jack White. Photo: Jo McCaughey

Jack White has signed a first-ever global, multi-year agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) to administer the iconic artist’s entire song catalog.

Effective immediately, UMPG is responsible for servicing and administering White’s song catalog with The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, his chart-topping solo albums Blunderbuss and Lazaretto, as well as collaborations and future projects.

With the agreement, UMPG will work closely with White and his Third String Tunes and Peppermint Stripe Music publishing companies to develop creative and commercial outlets for his new projects and existing songs. The deal marks the first time a single publisher will administer rights around the world for White’s song catalog.

In addition to a 20-year musical career that has seen White garner 170 songwriting credits, 12 Grammy awards and 35 Grammy nominations, as well as gold and platinum albums, White opened Third Man Records in 2009 in Nashville. The company combines work of a record store, record label, distribution center, photo studio and live music venue (with the world’s only direct-to-acetate recording capabilities). Recently White founded Third Man Books, dedicated to poetry, fiction and non-fiction, as well as Third Man Pressing, a new vinyl pressing plant at Third Man Records in Detroit.

White is starring in and executive producing American Epic, the four-part television event airing on PBS in May 2017 about the roots of music in America.

James LeBlanc Inks With Dreamlined Entertainment

Pictured (L-R): Dreamlined’s Keith Stegall, James LeBlanc, producer Jimmy Nutt

James LeBlanc has signed with Dreamlined Entertainment. LeBlanc has penned hits like “Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde” for Travis Tritt, “Relentless” for Jason Aldean, and “Learning How To Bend” for Gary Allan, and recently had cuts by Thompson Square, Jo Dee Messina, Martina McBride and more. LeBlanc’s songs have been featured on albums totaling over 25 million copies sold.

He will be releasing his first album of solo material in 10 years, Nature Of The Beast, June 16.