Round Hill Music

Round Hill Music is an American music publishing company founded in 2010 by Josh Gruss[1] along with Richard Rowe, and Neil Gillis.[2] The company runs a music publishing division, sync and royalty administration, music production library business, a record label and label services division as well as a Nashville songwriter services group with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville[3] and London.[4]

Round Hill Music
Founded2010 (2010)
GenreVarious
Country of originUnited States
Location650 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1420, New York City, New York 10019, United States
Official websitewww.roundhillmusic.com

Divisions

Music publishing

In January 2012, Round Hill and Adage Classics jointly acquired the GIL Music and GPS Music catalogs, which included the North American rights to six Beatles songs ("She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There", "From Me to You," "Misery," "I Wanna Be Your Man" and "There's a Place").[5] In September 2017, Round Hill made its largest acquisition to date, paying $250 million for the Carlin America publisher. Carlin owned the rights to songs recorded by Elvis Presley, among other artists.[6][7]

In 2017 Round Hill entered into a partnership with Zync for synchronization.[8]

In August 2019, Round Hill signed a sub-publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, which will represent Round Hill's catalogue outside of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordics.[9]

Round Hill also has signed and acquired the catalogues of Skid Row,[10] KK Downing (Judas Priest),[11] Jani Lane (Warrant), Triumph, Tesla,[12] Craig David,[13] Ronnie James Dio, Neil Sedaka, John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls,[14] Billy Duffy (The Cult), Jim Vallance, Big Loud Shirt,[15] Ashley Gorley,[16] Arthouse Entertainment,[17] Keith Sweat, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul,[18] Josh Kear,[19] Big Tractor[20] and Eric Carmen.[21]

Round Hill Records

In 2014, Round Hill Records was established with the catalog acquisition of the UK rock band Bush in partnership with frontman Gavin Rossdale.[22]

In January 2016, Round Hill paid $35 million for the entire song publishing catalogue of American rock band The Offspring, as well as the band's Columbia Records recordings.[23] Today Round Hill Records is releasing records from artists such as Royal Teeth and The London Souls, as well as providing label services to many other artists.

In 2020 Round Hill Records created a rock dedicated label[24] called Black Hill Records[25] which has signed The Cult, Black Pistol Fire and Jared James Nichols.

Round Hill Music Royalty Fund

Round Hill Music Royalty Partners[26] is the private equity arm of Round Hill Music which is dedicated to acquiring copyrights of music.

It raised[27] its first Fund in 2014[28] with $202 million and its second fund with $263[29] million in 2017.[30]

In 2014 Round Hill Music and BMG Rights Management sued Cox Communications for the copyright infringements of its subscribers.[31][32] In December 2015 the case was decided in BMG and Round Hill Music's favor.[33][34]

On July 31, 2020, Round Hill filed a $32.8 million lawsuit against independent distributor Tunecore and its parent company, Believe Digital, citing the unauthorized distribution of 219 Round Hill compositions.[35] Round Hill is seeking $150,000 per infringed composition.[36]

See also
  • List of record labels

References
  1. Greenburg, Zack O'Malley. "Golden Oldies: How To Become A Music Publishing Mogul". Forbes.
  2. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?
  3. https://musicrow.com/2020/02/round-hill-music-nashville-adds-three/
  4. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7897063/round-hill-music-brings-private-cash-to-hitmakers
  5. https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/boutique-music-publisher-invests-in-six-beatles-songs
  6. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-22/elvis-music-owner-carlin-is-said-in-talks-for-250-million-sale
  7. https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/round-hill-completes-240-million-acquisition-of-carlin-music-publishing-1202660752/
  8. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8031001/round-hill-zync-music-partnership-synch-sync-business
  9. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/publishing/8527387/warner-chappell-round-hill-global-subpublishing-agreement
  10. https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/skid-row-signs-worldwide-administration-deal-with-round-hill-music/
  11. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8466199/round-hill-judas-priest-publishing-catalog-kk-downing
  12. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/round-hill-music-acquires-triumph-warrant-and-tesla-copyrights
  13. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9446251/craig-david-worldwide-publishing-deal-round-hill-music
  14. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/round-hill-acquires-catalog-of-goo-goo-dolls-frontman-johnny-rzeznik/
  15. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6312150/round-hill-music-acquires-big-loud-shirt-industries-song-catalog
  16. https://musicrow.com/2018/03/ashley-gorley-round-hill-music-close-catalog-sale-and-go-forward-publishing-deal/
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  18. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/01/19/round-hill-music-collective-soul
  19. https://musicrow.com/2015/10/round-hill-music-big-yellow-dog-music-enter-deal-for-josh-kear-back-catalog/
  20. https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/music/2014/10/29/round-hill-music-buys-local-song-catalog-adds-staff/18076349/
  21. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/round-hill-acquires-eric-carmen-catalog-including-all-by-myself
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  23. Forde, Eamonn A music company just paid $35m for the Offspring's catalogue. Why? The Guardian. January 12, 2016
  24. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/round-hill-expands-recordings-division-with-new-rock-label-black-hill-records/
  25. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9371282/round-hill-launches-black-hill-records-rock-label
  26. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140724005082/en/Hill-Music-Royalty-Partners-Closes-Fund-200
  27. https://www.pehub.com/round-hill-closes-debut-music-royalties-fund-on-202-mln/
  28. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2014/02/12/golden-oldies-how-to-become-a-music-publishing-mogul/
  29. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180116005328/en/Hill-Music-Raises-260-Million-Music-Royalty
  30. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/round-hill-raises-263m-acquisitions/
  31. https://completemusicupdate.com/article/bmg-and-round-hill-sue-us-net-provider-for-failing-to-act-over-file-sharing-users/
  32. https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-music-publishers-suing-cox-1417135138
  33. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/music-publisher-gets-25-million-849829
  34. https://torrentfreak.com/cox-is-liable-for-pirating-subscribers-ordered-to-pay-25-million-151217/
  35. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9428988/round-hill-music-tunecore-copyright-lawsuit
  36. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/round-hill-sues-tunecore-and-parent-believe-in-33m-us-lawsuit-alleging-copyright-infringement/
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