Acquires Lake Allegan Pub Club & Hurdjamz Music Publishing Catalogs
Pictured (L-R): Back Row – Red Light Management’s Dallas McVey, BelleSouth Business Management’s Anna Marsh, Red Light Management’s Janet Weir, Big Machine Music’s Alex Heddle, Big Machine Label Group’s Malcolm Mimms; Front Row – Ritholz Levy Fields’ Chip Petree , Big Machine Label Group’s Scott Borchetta, Ryan Hurd, Big Machine Music’s Mike Molinar
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NASHVILLE, TN (March 19, 2020) – Big Machine Music (BMM) announced today the signing of hit songwriter and RCA Recording artist Ryan Hurd to an exclusive songwriting agreement and acquisition of his Lake Allegan Pub Club (ASCAP) and Hurdjamz (BMI) music publishing catalogs. The catalogs includes songs recorded by Lady Antebellum (“What If I Never Get Over You,” “You Look Good”), Luke Bryan (“Sunrise Sunburn Sunset Repeat”), Diplo (“Heartless” ft. Julia Michaels and Morgan Wallen) and wife Maren Morris (“I Wish I Was,” “All My Favorite People”) as well as his own hits “Diamonds or Twine” and GOLD-certified Top 20 hit “To A T.”
BMM General Manager Mike Molinar commented, “Ryan is a dynamic artist and songwriter with a high trajectory and boundless future. The power of his music translates through both his voice and his writing, across genres, through audiences and up the charts. Big Machine Music is proud to become the steward of his catalog and advocate for his songwriting career.”
Hurd officially joins BMM’s wildly talented roster, which includes Brett Young, Brandy Clark, Laura Veltz, Jessie Jo Dillon, Eric Paslay and more.
“I love being a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the last few years, I have gotten to know Mike Molinar and Alex Heddle on a personal and professional level. They treat songs and songwriters with amazing care and excitement, and I’m so happy to begin a new chapter with the entire publishing team at Big Machine Music,” shared Hurd.
ABOUT RYAN HURD: RCA singer/songwriter Ryan Hurd continues his ubiquitous rise taking his trademark, powerful lyrics, melodies, and electric live performance to the fans. As one of Nashville’s most multi-dimensional young artist/songwriters, Hurd claims co-pen credits on some of the format’s biggest hits including “Lonely Tonight” (Blake Shelton), “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” (Luke Bryan), “What If I Never Get Over You” and “You Look Good” (Lady Antebellum), and “Heartless” (Diplo ft. Morgan Wallen). Hurd continues his hit-song-producing path with the release of his own music including his GOLD-certified Top 20 hit, “To A T”; a four-track collection of re-released, refreshed songs Panorama from his formative days as a burgeoning songwriter; and his latest EP, Platonic, which is available now. Lauded for “generating major buzz” and “making waves” (Rolling Stone), the Kalamazoo native has garnered more than 328 million career streams worldwide and caught the attention of entertainment tastemakers including men’s lifestyle playbook Esquire and Maxim. Hurd, labeled “one to watch” by Pandora, Rolling Stone, and Huffington Post, most recently served as support on Old Dominion’s MAKE IT SWEET TOUR and is currently headlining his PLATONIC TOUR across the country. For more, visit RyanHurd.com.
ABOUT BIG MACHINE MUSIC: Nashville-based Big Machine Music is a full service, independent music publisher and home to many of today’s biggest hits. BMM has been named to Billboard’s Year End Top Ten Hot 100 Publisher Corp and Hot Country Publisher Corp for the past three consecutive years (2017, 2018, 2019), thanks to global chart-toppers such as the highest streaming first week hit in the history of Country Music and 2020 ACM Song of the Year nominee, “10,000 Hours” (co-written by Jessie Jo Dillon // performed and co-written by Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber), 2019 CMA Song of the Year“Beautiful Crazy” (performed and co-written by Luke Combs), 5X PLATINUM-certified 2018 BMI Country Song of the Year “In Case You Didn’t Know” (co-written and performed by Brett Young), GRAMMY®-nominated “Speechless” (co-written by Laura Veltz // performed and co-written by Dan + Shay), reigning NSAI Song of the Year “Break Up In The End” (co-written by Dillon // performed by Cole Swindell), PLATINUM-certified “The Bones” (co-written by Veltz // performed and co-written by Maren Morris), “What If I Never Get Over You” (co-written by Veltz // performed by Lady Antebellum) and CMA-nominated song “Drowns The Whiskey” (co-written by Josh Thompson // performed by Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert). BMM’s current roster also includes Brandy Clark, Eric Paslay, Ryan Hurd, Justin Moore, Maddie & Tae, Tyler Rich, Trent Harmon, Nathan Barlowe, Kenton Bryant, Benjy Davis, Reid Isbell, Callista Clark, Daniel Ross and Lauren Weintraub.
Additional No. 1s in BMM’s catalog include “Sleep Without You,” “Like I Loved You,” “Mercy” and “Here Tonight” (Young), “Hurricane,” “When It Rains It Pours,” “One Number Away,” “She Got The Best of Me” and “Even Though I’m Leaving” (Combs) “Beer Never Broke My Heart” (Combs, Jonathan Singleton), “Yours If You Want It” and “A Guy Walks Into A Bar” (Singleton), “I’ll Name The Dogs” and “Any Ol’ Barstool” (Thompson), “The Ones Who Didn’t Make It Back Home,” “Til My Last Day” and “Lettin’ The Night Roll” (Moore), “I Could Use A Love Song” (Veltz) and “Girl In A Country Song” (Maddie & Tae). Current BMM singles include Young’s “Catch,” Carly Pearce and Lee Brice’s “I Hope You’re Happy Now” (Singleton), Combs and Eric Church’s “Does To Me,” Scotty McCreery’s “In Between” (Singleton) and Moore’s “Why We Drink.” Superstar artists across multiple genres including Christina Aguilera, Reba McEntire, Steven Tyler, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Kelly Clarkson, Diplo and Julia Michaels, among others, have recorded BMM tracks while selections have also served as theme songs for major brand campaigns such as General Mills’ Outnumber Hunger, Crown Royal’s Your Hero’s Name Here, the 2016 U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team and the National Association for Music Education’s Music In Our Schools Month.
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