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Territory Spotlight - Sweden UMPG SWEDEN’S ELITE STABLE OF SONGWRITERS PRODUCE STRING OF POP HITS FOR WESTLIFE, BACKSTREET BOYS, BRITNEY SPEARS As one of Universal Music Publishing Group’s leading territories, UMPG Sweden is generating a flurry of international chart activity for the world’s biggest pop bands. Recent hit songs for Westlife, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and others have put UMPG Sweden’s top songwriters, including Alexander Kronlund, Franciz, Pelle Nylen and Lisa Miskovsky, in hot demand. This, combined with relationships with Cheiron Productions and Murlyn Music, continues to keep the UMPG Swedish tunesmiths quite active. “In Sweden, pop acts like Backstreet Boys, N’Sync and Britney Spears have found what they were looking for – a strong sense of melody and “In Sweden, pop acts like Backstreet Boys, N’Sync and Britney Spears have found what they were looking for – a strong sense of melody and more than just beats...” - Martin Ingestrom, M.D, UMPG Sweden more than just beats. With artists and A&R execs now migrating to Sweden looking for good songs, the doors have burst open to the international market and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of slowing down in the near future,” says Martin Ingestrom, Managing Director of UMPG Sweden. ALEXANDER KRONLUND Signed to UMPG for more than 7 years, songwriter Alexander Kronlund, who co-wrote Meja’s 1 million selling debut album on Sony, recently co-wrote two songs for Britney Spears sophomore CD, Oops I Did It Again. Kronlund co-wrote her hit single, “Lucky,” with Max Martin and Rami and also cowrote “Don’t Go Knockin’ On My Door.” As a non- Britney Spears exclusive member of the Cheiron production team, Kronlund and principal Max Martin are working together on a variety of new projects. Having also worked with Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, Kronlund is currently co-writing with Swedish star Robyn and Universal Sweden act Lambretta. FRANCIZ When the Backstreet Boys were recording in Stockholm with Cheiron, UMPG’s creative team pitched Franciz (half of the Franciz and LePont writing team) to Martin Dodd at Zomba, which resulted in meeting between the songwriters and the band. Consequently, Backstreet Boys recorded two of their songs for their current smash CD, Black and Blue (one of which was produced by Franciz & LePont). With this success and a new track in the works for Jessica Simpson, UMPG expects many exciting things to come from Franciz. LISA MISKOVSKY Currently working on her own solo album to be released in 2001 on Stockholm Records, Lisa Miskovsky co-wrote Backstreet Boys new hit single, “Shape of My Heart,” with Max Martin and Rami. The song, originally written for Miskovsky’s own album, was passed along to Backstreet Boys the Backstreet Boys by Max Martin when Miskovsky determined it didn’t fit her style. PELLE NYLEN A new signing to UMPG, Pelle Nylen co-wrote Westlife’s hit single, “My Love,” which debuted at No. 1 in the UK. He recently worked with new MCA Records U.S. signing, Carly Hennessy. Nylen is actively co-writing with some of UMPG’s main U.K. writers and the Swedish songwriting elite, including former Cheiron writers Jorgen Elofsson and Andreas Carlsson. Following the Westlife single, Nylen has song requests coming in from around the world. Under the direction of Managing Director, Martin Ingestrom, Universal Music Publishing Group Sweden is one of UMPG’s leading territories featuring some of Europe’s most elite talent including international artists Meja, Thomas Rusiak, The Hellacopters, ABBA, Clawfinger and Aqua, as well as hot local acts Markoolio, Sahara Hotnights, Camilla Brinck, Caesar’s Palace, Shimoli, Hakan hellstrom amongst others. UMPG Sweden’s top songwriters include Franciz (of the Franciz & Lepont team), Alexander Kronlund, Pelle Nylen, Christer Sandelin, Harry Sommerdahl and Per Stappe. HOT ARTISTS MEJA A major priority for Sony Music, artist/writer MEJA is releasing her third album in 2001. Each of her previous two albums have sold over 1 million units in Europe and Asia. Recently, Meja had a European hit single, “All But The Money,” from her last CD, which also received healthy airplay in the U.S. She was also featured on Ricky Martin’s hit song, “Private Emotions.” The first single from her forthcoming album, is the song, “Spirits.” Artist/writer/producer and hip-hop act THOMAS RUSIAK recently exploded in Sweden with the platinum single, “Hiphopper” which stayed 19 weeks in the top 60 singles chart, peaking three weeks in a row at No. 1 from his debut album, Magic Villa. Rusiak, who has a new US deal with Republic, has also produced Swedish MCKen, Swedish soul superstar Robyn as well as the single, “Frozen,” from Slick Rick’s comeback album, The Art of Storytelling (Def Jam/Universal). THE HELLACOPTERS THE HELLACOPTERS fourth CD, High Visibility, (Universal Music) debuted on the Swedish album chart at No. 5. It is their first major label release which will be released worldwide through Universal. Their previous albums (all published by Universal) have also been released worldwide through independents. The band has generated a large following through several worldwide tours and even supported KISS. Martin Ingestrom Meja Thomas Rusiak The Hellacopters Westlife
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: LOY FEY HUEI Loy has been signed by UMPG Taiwan to a long-term exclusive worldwide publishing deal since 1998. His songs have sold millions of albums in Asia, having produced mega-hit songs for Asia‘s Jackie Chueng and Andy Lau, who reached the top of numerous pop charts in the Asia region. Loy received the Singapore Hit Awards 2000 “Best Local Lyric” award. FIRST REGIONAL A&R CREATIVE CONFERENCE Hosted by Douglas Chan and Steven Fock, the first UMPG regional A&R Creative conference was held to discuss UMPG’s SE Asia goals and objectives. Pictured at the conference (Back, from L to R): John Reston, Senior Manager, Hong Kong; Richard Lee, A&R/Publishing, Taiwan; Matthew Ma, A&R Executive, Hong Kong; and Douglas Chan, Managing Director. (Front, from l to r): Hak Jun Jung, Publishing Manager, Korea; Steven Frock, Regional A&R Director, Taiwan; Sharen Lee, Copyright & Licensing Manager, Hong Kong; Edith Yu, Secretary, Hong Kong; and Jack T e o , Publishing Manager, Malaysia. FOCK JOINS UMPG Steven Fock has joined UMPG Asia as Regional A&R Director/Publishing Manager. Reporting to Douglas Chan and Michael Huang, Fock began his 13-year career in the music business as managing director for Shiok Music. Prior to joining UMPG, he founded Musset Publication Ltd., one of the most successful independent publishing houses in the region. Australasia S.E. Asia UMPG FIRST MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TIONAL PUBLISHER TO O SET UP A COMPANY IN INDIA UMPG has become the first major international publisher to set up a publishing company in India. The local Indian catalogue is now available for exploitation outside of India, as all titles have been circulated to all UMPG branch offices. There are many popular film titles which are generating a lot of interest. There will be a publishers’ delegation to India in early 2001 to meet with the country’s major record companies in order to reach an agreement for the payment of mechanical royalties on international repertoire. UMPG JOINS KOREAN, TAIWT AIWAN AN SOCIETIES UMPG has recently become a member of the Korean society, KOMCA, and has begun receiving royalty distribution for the international catalogue. UMPG has also recently become a member of the Taiwanese society, MUST, and expects to receive the first performance distributions for local and international in early 2001. ASIA SYNCHRONIZATION BUSINESS UMPG Asia has stepped up it’s activities in the area of synchronization and secondary exploitation by working in partnership with UM3 (UMI Special Projects) to create a sampler, which appeared as an insert in a recent Asian media publication “Asian Brand News” along with a full-page ad. BOB AIRD APPOINTED NEW MD OF UMPG AUSTRALIA In October, Bob Aird was appointed to the position of Managing Director of Universal Music Publishing Australia. Aird came to UMPG from Rondor Music Australia, where he was Managing Director for more Bob Aird than 17 years. In his new position, Aird manages the daily operations of the Sydney-based office and staff of nine. His responsibilities include expanding UMPG's already successful roster of local talent, as well as identifying and negotiating international sub-publishing deals. Aird is also overseeing the integration of the recently acquired Rondor catalogue. Madison Avenue UMPG ARTISTS TAKE HOME TOP HONORS AT THE 2000 ARIA AWARDS At Australia's ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) Awards held in Sydney in October, UMPG U.K. signing Madison Avenue took three major awards -- Record of the Year, Best New Artist and the Highest Selling Australian Single award for their hit dance tune, "Don't Call Me Baby." Alex Lloyd (local signing through Rondor) who won the Best New Artist Award in 1999, won this year's Best Male Artist for his Platinum debut album, Black The Sun. Dirty Three won Best Alternative Release and Karma County won Best Adult Contemporary Album. BEGAUD / CORISH & HIRSCHFELDER WRITE OLYMPIC THEMES UMPG Australia's Paul Begaud and Vanessa Corish wrote one of the featured songs of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Entitled, “Dare to Dream,” the song is the Athletes Theme which was played after all athletes marched into Olympic stadium. John Farnham and Olivia Newton John, performed the song in front of a global audience. Also performed at the ceremony was "Eternity," written & orchestrated by worldrenowned composer David Hirschfelder. The songs are on the official Olympic Opening Ceremony CD, a Top 40 compilation, which has sold in excess of 175,000 copies (2X platinum) in Australia. Begaud and Corish, who have been writing together for 5 years, have also written Terri Clark's No. 1 Country Hit "Now That I Found You" and songs for multi-platinum artists such as Wynonna Judd, Honeyz, Peter Andre and Human Nature. Australia Paul Begaud (center) was recently presented with his BMI Award for 1 million plays of his song, “Now That I Found You.” ~UMPG~ Pg. 13
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