President's Message - Universal Music Publishing

ANASTACIA
FATBOY
SLIM
Fatboy Slim’s new
record, Halfway
Between The Gutter
and The Stars, is
fresh with all the
street beats, pop
hooks, big rock samples
and groove as
his enormously successful
platinum CD,
You’ve Come a Long
Way Baby. Fatboy
Slim has this time
enlisted funk diva Macy Gray to front two tracks,
“Love Life” and “Demons.” Also, UMPG’s own
funk legend Bootsy Collins plays bass on
“Weapon Of Choice.” The true appeal of “Halfway
Between The Gutter And The Stars” is Fatboy
Slim’s gift for bridging the gap between underground
club culture and mainstream pop accessibility.
Rolling Stone gave the record a three and
1/2 star review.
~UMPG~
Pg. 4
F
ueled by the success of her two million selling, No. 1 single, “I’m
Outta Love,” Anastacia’s debut album, Not That Kind
(Epic/Daylight), has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide and has
reached Gold status in France, Germany, Switzerland and Norway.
Featuring nine songs co-written by Anastacia and material co-written
and produced by UMPG’s own Sturken and Rogers and Travon Potts,
the album reached No. 1 on Billboard Magazine’s Pan-European chart
and remained in its Top 10 for three months.
Recently Anastacia won Best New International Artist (Revelation
Internationale De L’Annee) at the M6 Awards in France (the French
equivalent to MTV) beating out pop stars Christina Aguilera, Shola
Ama, Enrique Iglesias, Moby and Britney Spears. Based on her worldwide
record sales, she has also been chosen as Best New Artist by the
World Music Awards, which will be held in Monaco on May 2, and televised
worldwide and as a primetime ABC-TV special in June.
The CD is now set to debut in the U.S. in Spring 2001. Anastacia
performed with Sir Elton John on his CBS/VH1 special at Madison
Square Garden. The show was recorded live for his “One Night Only”
CD released in December (See more on Sir Elton John in UMPG
Catalogue News - Page 14).
“Anastacia is a remarkably dynamic vocalist, performer and songwriter.
She is exploding around the world and promises to make a huge
impact in the U.S. in the new year. We have been very excited to welcome
her to the Universal Music Publishing Group family this year,”
said Tom Sturges, Executive Director of Creative Affairs, Universal
Music Publishing Group.
For more information on Anastacia, contact Donna Caseine,
Director of Creative Services, e-Mail: donna.caseine@umusic.com.
SONIQUE
In October 2000, Universal Music
Publishing Group U.K. signed Sonique
to an exclusive worldwide publishing
deal. As Farmclub’s first signing and one
of Britain’s top DJ’s and electro-dance
pop artists, Sonique has sold
over 1.7 million copies of her
single, “It Feels So Good,”
which debuted at No. 1 in the
U.K. and was also a Top 10
single in the U.S. and nearly
every European country. Her
CD, Hear My Cry (Farmclub/
Republic/ Universal) has
sold over 1,000,000
copies worldwide.