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February 19th, 2013

I Wanna Hold Your Songs

I Wanna Hold Your Songs features two #1 songs from some of today’s biggest male country stars. “Getting You Home” was Chris Young’s first #1 single and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Country Performance. The song came off his #1 album, The Man I Want To Be. “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” was a #1 single for Blake Shelton for two straight weeks. The song reappeared on Blake’s greatest hits album Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton.

Hearts Bluff is pleased to announce we have acquired two songs from I Wanna Hold Your Songs Publishing, owned by Kent Blazy.

February 1st, 2013

Fun Attic

Fun Attic opened its doors in 1990 as a publishing house that developed into a full-service administration company. Their songs have been recorded by a variety of musical acts including DC Talk, Jaci Valesquez, and Avalon. The catalog features “Jesus Freak,” recorded by DC Talk in 1995.

“Jesus Freak” was a cross over hit and received 3 GMA Dove Awards. The song has been covered multiple times and was featured on several DC Talk follow-up albums, including their Greatest Hits.

We’re very proud to add Fun Attic songs to our catalog.

July 26th, 2012

Mac Gayden

Mac Gayden wrote the international classic “Everlasting Love” with Buzz Cason. The song was recorded by Robert Knight and released in 1968. “Everlasting Love” is one of BMI’s top Award winning songs of all time.

The song is literally everlasting, being one of only two songs to become a Top 40 hit in the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. The UK versions of the song have appeared on the Top 40 chart in every decade between 1960-2010, hitting the Top 20 in every decade but the 1980s. Multiple artists have recorded “Everlasting Love” and you’ve heard it playing in many movies, TV shows, and commercials.

Hearts Bluff is proud to add Mac Gayden’s “Everlasting Love” to our managed catalogs.

 

 

Way to go SESAC!

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

“SESAC will accelerate domestic/terrestrial radio performance royalty payments from the traditional quarterly distributions to monthly distributions beginning over the next several months and plans to expand the monthly royalty distributions to other performance platforms later this year.” – sesac.com

By initiating monthly distributions, the value of SESAC catalogs just went up significantly. Because of the  time-value of money, any investment analyst knows there huge difference in receiving royalties on a monthly basis (versus quarterly or semi-annually). When you factor the effect of this over many years, there is a huge difference in pure “net-present” value.

Once writer and publishers realize this how much of their wealth is tied up in slow, antiquated royalty distributions, they are going to demand changes. If BMI or ASCAP follows suit, you will see a significant shift in underlying catalog values as this hidden wealth is released. The financial transparency of the music biz, is going to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1990′s after all!!

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