First State Media Group has acquired the entire music publishing catalogue of singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow.
Crow is responsible for chart topping hits such as All I Wanna Do, Everyday Is A Winding Road, and Soak Up The Sun.
The acquisition sees FSMG add 153 songs released by Crow between 1993 and 2008 to its portfolio of approximately 30,000 songs – as well as securing the publishing rights to her next two albums.
FSMG’s global music publishing operations are carried out through its wholly owned S1 Songs Group of companies, listed as a Billboard global top 10 music publishing corporation in 2008.
FSMG, under the leadership of its co-managing directors Steve McMellon and Geordie Manolas, will work with Crow and her creative team to promote the use of her songs across media channels, particularly film and television. Revenues will be exploited through ramped-up on-the-ground royalty collections, using FSMG’s S1 Songs Group global platform of copyright administration companies. FSMG will also be working closely with leading film production studios to increase the placement of her songs in movies and television series.
FSMG’s back catalogue already has rock, country, pop and alternative genres, and includes iconic works such as Disco Inferno, Somebody to Love, and Monster Mash, and the back catalogues of artists such as The Carpenters, John Denver, Evanescence, George Benson and Creed.
