Round Hill Music And Gavin Rossdale Partner To Acquire Iconic Bush Catalog
Round Hill Music, a full-service creative rights management company with a core focus on music publishing, is excited to officially announce that they have partnered with multi-platinum artist Gavin Rossdale to acquire selected master recordings and related recording agreements of the band Bush from Kirtland Records, LP.
“Gavin and his entire team are thrilled about this exciting new partnership and the opportunities it will provide in the coming months and years,” says The MGMT Company’s Lenny Beer, who manages Rossdale and Bush.
Over the course of their remarkable career, Rossdale and Bush have sold close to 20 million records in the U.S. and Canada alone. They’ve also compiled an amazing string of 17 consecutive Top 40 hit singles on the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, including 11 that hit the Top 5, six of which shot to No. 1.
The Bush catalog includes 58 master recordings spanning five albums and features a plethora of iconic rock songs, including “Comedown,” “Glycerine,” “Swallowed,” “Machinehead” and “The Chemicals Between Us”-all of which were No. 1 hits.
These songs helped define and influence modern rock and remain popular radio staples.
“We are privileged to own these iconic recordings,” says Josh Gruss, CEO of Round Hill Music. “It’s even more of a privilege to own them in partnership with Gavin, the lead creator of these copyrights.”
Ownership in the recordings is equally split between RHM and Gavin Rossdale. Round Hill Records, Round Hill Music’s master recordings division, will administer the catalog. The acquired recordings will be released under the Round Hill Records label.
2014 marks the 20th anniversary of Bush’s debut album Sixteen Stone, which hit No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and included the No. 1 hits “Comedown,” “Glycerine” and “Machinehead,” as well as fan favorites “Everything Zen” and “Little Things.”
Round Hill Music was founded by Josh Gruss in 2010 as a boutique-sized music publisher offering high-touch administration and creative services to its songwriters. Since then, Round Hill Music has signed exclusive worldwide publishing deals with some of the industry’s most successful songwriters, while also building a stellar catalog of iconic songs.
Round Hill’s exclusive worldwide publishing deals now include an extensive range of talent such as prolific songwriter and producer, Marti Frederiksen (Mick Jagger, Def Leppard, Pink, Aerosmith, Carrie Underwood), composer Chris Caswell (Daft Punk, Happily Ever After, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Muppets), singer/songwriter Tatu (Eve, DJ Headhunterz), and Brooklyn rock band American Authors. After opening up a Nashville office, acquiring the Big Tractor catalog, and signing on new singer and songwriter Lindsay Lee, they will be adding Bush’s select catalog to this expanding list of successful and exciting business partnership ventures for 2014.
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