Bill Luther’s catalog contains multiple cuts by mainstay Country artists such as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Joe Nichols, and Gary Allen. He’s co-written many amazing songs with the renowned songwriter, Aimee Mayo. He’s written the #1 hit “My Best Friend” by Tim McGraw, #2 hits “Let It Go” (McGraw), and “Who You’d Be Today” (Chesney), and the duet “Let’s Make Love” by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
We’re big fans of Buddy Brock. His catalog contains songs published by Acuff-Rose/Sony Music, where Brock was a staff-writer from 1990-2007. It has seen diverse cuts by Alan Jackson, Tracy Byrd, Kenny Chesney, Aaron Tippin, and George Strait.
Adding to our impressive list of catalogs is David Kent, the man co-wrote the Blake Shelton #1 “Austin.” We’re please to know David and to have acquired an interest in his catalog. Click here to learn more about David and “Austin.”
It’s hard to believe, but we have just celebrated the 5-year anniversary of our Nashville office! With $20 million budgeted for acquisitions, we are quietly and purposefully building one of Nashville’s finest independent music catalogs. We currently own interests in over 40 #1 songs, and our overall catalog is now approaching 5000 songs. We are evaluating select publishing catalogs to purchase.
If you have a catalog that averages between $10,000 and $1.5 Million year in royalties, we invite you to contact us.
Hearts Bluff is headed to Florida!
We are proud to be sponsors at the 2012 30A Songwriter Festival. We’ll be hosting at a venue, and our very own Scott and Caryl Parker well be playing at a session or two. We’ll be sure to add more details once the final schedule is posted.
If you’re headed to the beach this weekend too, be sure to come and say hello!
(Written by Amy Grant and Chris Eaton)
With the Christmas season upon us, we’d like to feature a modern Christmas classic.
It was an honor to sit among songwriting heroes and legends last night at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony. On the event’s 41st Anniversary, inductees included John Bettis, Thom Schuyler, and Allen Shamblin in the writer category, and Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson as artist writers.
The ceremony was a touching tribute to the songs written and the stories told. It was a great privileged to hear each writer talk about their backgrounds and how they found the inspiration to write such poignant songs.
Hearts Bluff was able to check out some great shows and panels provided by Soundland – presented by Next Big Nashville. We heard some great discussions on the music biz and saw performances by today’s biggest up-and-comers.
The kick the event off we sat in on a panel discussing the success of the Civil Wars. We learned that it was a great, trustworthy, devoted team that believed in their artists and promoted them using out of the box methods. We went to other panels discussing the success of Noisetrade, the upcoming recapturing of copyrights, Kickstarter, the growing Rootmusic on Facebook, and a songwriter Q&A with the ever so talented Justin Townes Earl.
The shows offered a great chance to sample some great acts like M. Ward, Foster the People, Justin Townes Earl, and Apache Relay.
Thanks to Soundland for putting on a great event! We’re already looking forward to next year!
Album sales were actually up 33% from this same period last year. Yes, people still buy albums! According to SoundScan figures, this year U.S. album sales were up at the mid-year point. It’s the first time that has occurred since 2004, the last positive sales-growth year posted by this country’s music industry. Also, in my world of catalog acquisitions, “Deep Catalog” sales are up about 10% from last year.
In anticipation of their iCloud launch, Apple has successfully negotiated a rate with four major labels and four major publisher groups. This effectively puts 60% of the iTunes dollars back in the pockets of labels and publishers; Of the total pie, 12% goes to publishers. If my math is correct on a .99 download, this beats our statutory rate – 9.1 cents on mechanicals – by about 25%.
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Hearts Bluff Music sent Catalog Manager Jess Dvorak to the Billboard Country Music Summit at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Nashville, TN. Here is her humble attempt to recap the information she learned while attending 5 different seminar panels lead by distinguished industry executives, artists, and songwriters.
This year’s Billboard Country Music Summit was filled with the biggest industry big wigs discussing everything that’s currently prevailing the music industry. So whether the audience was filled with seasoned vets or newbie’s, like myself, the information they revealed hit the whole range of expertise. So, I took some basic notes…
Caryl Parker and Rebecca Lynn Howard at St. Mary's
Earlier this month Heart’s Bluff Music had the privilege of co-sponsoring the Better Angels 16th Annual Key West Songwriter’s Festival.
For me the festival started on the plane ride from Nashville as I witnessed the airline staff gate-checking over twenty guitars! Shawn Camp introduced himself in the waiting area. Bob Dipiero and I discussed an old song we’d written together, and Dean Alexander sang a song over the airplane PA. The party had indeed started!
The Key West Songwriter’s Festival is known for being something of a Spring Break more
(Written by Herman Parker Jr. and Sam Phillips)
The Elvis Presley version of the song is currently ranked as the 83rd greatest song of all time…