As announced in Billboard, Reservoir has acquired the music publishing catalogs associated with heavy metal, progressive rock, indie, and punk rock record label group Century Media. The deal brings Reservoir the publishing rights amassed over the last 20 years with 9000+ copyrights and 350+ songwriter contracts, including future works, from writers signed to Magic Arts, Lonely Planet, and Element, expanding Reservoir's total number of copyrights to over 100,000 and songwriters represented to over 1,000.
"This acquisition of
Century Media's publishing arms reaffirms our commitment to diversifying our music catalog and expanding Reservoir's international offerings," said
Reservoir COO Rell Lafargue. "We look forward to welcoming
Century Media's songwriters into the
Reservoir family."
Founded in the 1990's in Los Angeles, London and Dortmund, Germany,
Century Media's publishing arm specializes in different styles of rock music. The writer roster includes such artists as Arch Enemy, Architects, Devin Townsend, Deicide, Iced Earth, In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Shadows Fall, Spock's Beard, and
Suicide Silence, among others. The deal brings Billboard Top 200 albums Blood, A Star-Crossed Wasteland, and The Dream, by American metalcore band In This Moment, Karmacode, and Comalies by Italian metal band Lacuna Coil, and The Black Crown, No Time To Bleed, and The Cleansing by American deathcore band
Suicide Silence to the
Reservoir catalog, among many others.
Moving forward,
Reservoir SVP of Creative and A&R Spek will oversee creative development for the active roster of songwriters, with additional support from Reservoir's Creative teams in New York, Los Angeles, and London. "Century Media has been a pioneer in metal for years," said Spek. "I'm a fan and am excited to work with these writers and build upon the incredible foundations they've already established."
In 2015, Sony Music Entertainment acquired
Century Media Records' family of labels:
Century Media, Another Century, Inside Out, Superball and People Like You.
ABOUT RESERVOIR
Reservoir is an independent music publisher based in New York City. Founded as a family business in 2007, the company began with a small, experienced team and a modest collection of long-standing hits. Today, with offices in Toronto and London, over 175 #1 releases worldwide, and writers based everywhere from Hollywood to Hamburg,
Reservoir has emerged as the boutique publisher with a global reach.
Diverse and ever-expanding,
Reservoir boasts a multi-genre, hit-driven catalog. Its archives include historic pieces written by greats like Billy Strayhorn, Bobby Pickett, David Crosby, Gram Parsons, Irving Burgie, John Denver, and Ricky Lee Jones; the contemporary-classic catalogs of Big & Rich, Lil Jon, Phantogram, Sheryl Crow, and Stephen "Static Major" Garrett; and a slew of current and recent popular hits performed by Ariana Grande, Drake, Lady Gaga, Major Lazer, Meghan Trainor, Tiësto, and several others. Reservoir's collection of film music includes rights to scores created by award-winning composer-producer Hans Zimmer, as heard in the motion pictures The Lion King, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Gladiator, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and over 150 other titles. The company's roster of active writers and producers includes the award-winning Ina Wroldsen, Jamie Hartman, Lauren Christy, Mike Campbell, Nate "Danja" Hills, and Statik Selektah, plus popular performing artists 2 Chainz, Joey Bada$$, and WatchTheDuck.
Reservoir continues to grow through the selective acquisition of exceptional catalogs, and the signing and development of creative talent from around the world.
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