Photograph Credit score: William Dyer / CC by 4.0CTM Outlander acquires the publishing catalog of Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Shane McAnally.
CTM Outlander has made a major transfer within the Nashville music publishing scene, having acquired the publishing catalog of Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Shane McAnally, alongside different works from SMACKSongs’ Matt McGinn, Josh Osborne, Matthew Ramsey, and Trevor Rosen.
The deal additionally contains components of McAnally’s royalties from his catalog of greater than 200 grasp recordings as a producer, plus an unique four-year go-forward co-publishing deal, inclusive of non-dramatic rights to sure songs featured within the 9X Tony-nominated Broadway musical Shucked.
As a part of the brand new settlement, McAnally’s publishing corporations SMACKSongs and SMACKBlue — together with works by Walker Hayes, Kylie Morgan, Josh Jenkins, and plenty of extra — will probably be administered on a worldwide foundation by CTM Outlander.
CTM Outlander is a partnership between Dallas-based Outlander Capital, led by Les Ware and Mike McKool, and the Dutch-based main unbiased music leisure firm CTM, led by business veteran André de Raaff. Since its launch two years in the past, CTM Outlander has signaled its ambition to take a position over a billion U.S. {dollars} in buying music publishing and grasp rights with notable strikes. Amongst them are the acquisition of TEN Music’s publishing belongings in 2021 and the catalogs of Natalie Hemby, Ben Burgess, and Michael Tyler in 2022.
McAnally has a well-secured place amongst Nashville’s elite, with over 50 No. 1 songs and two Songwriter of the Yr awards by the Academy of Nation Music beneath his belt. In 2022, he additionally turned the most-nominated songwriter in Nation Music Affiliation historical past.
His work contains songs recorded by Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Halsey, Sam Hunt, the Jonas Brothers, Miranda Lambert, John Legend, Previous Dominion, Reba, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, George Strait, Keith City, and Morgan Wallen, amongst many extra. McAnally’s work as a producer contains artists like Kelsea Ballerini, Kelly Clarkson, Walker Hayes, Sam Hunt, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Carly Pearce.
“I’m very excited to begin this new partnership constructed on a mutual ardour for all issues music, together with the worldwide attain of this unimaginable group,” says McAnally. “André is a visionary and understands the significance of managing music rights, as he has proven over the course of his profession.”
“As I proceed to broaden my artistic work to new areas, André and his group acknowledge the eagerness I’ve, not only for creating music within the conventional sense, but in addition in areas of movie, TV, Broadway, and past. I’m grateful to the CTM Outlander group for partnering with me to handle my catalog copyrights and am desperate to see what we’re in a position to accomplish collectively over the subsequent a number of years.”
“It is vitally uncommon to return throughout such a gifted and gifted songwriter, producer, and creator of music leisure like Shane McAnally,” provides CTM Outlander CEO André de Raaff. “His successes are numerous, from pop to nation and from musical theatre to creating TV reveals. It’s a privilege to take care of an awesome a part of his legacy and to work with him and the remainder of the SMACK group sooner or later on all the brand new initiatives forward, which we anticipate to turn out to be extra profitable than ever.”
“We consider in Nashville’s artistic neighborhood and are proud to assist amplify the tales which can be a byproduct of an surroundings that cultivates ingenuity,” concludes Outlander Capital Principal Mike McKool. “With CTM Outlander’s integration throughout a number of disciplines, it’s thrilling to see the integrity of those catalogs preserved and amplified whereas additionally offering this safety to the writers.”