NEWS

 

January 2008


It’s been a while since the last update and a great deal has been happening at Notting Hill Music with the company enjoying a raft of hits around the World spearheaded by 2 UK number 1 singles and another number 1 in the US.
In the UK Timbaland’s “The Way I Are” was followed at number one by Kanye West’s “Stronger” with Mims’ “This Is Why I’m Hot” topping the Billboard Hot 100. Further hits on both sides of the Atlantic came from The Game, Fabolous, Tank, Gucci Mane, Funeral For A Friend, Fightstar, Bow Wow & Omarion, Huey, R.Kelly & Bow Wow, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Booty Luv, Groove Amada featuring Stush, Filo & Peri, DJ Khaled, 2Pac & Ashanti, Sunfreakz & DJ Felli Fel.

The year saw us receive 5 ASCAP awards and 4 from BMI in the US together with an Ivor Novello nomination in the UK for Bodyrox’s “Yeah Yeah”.

Album successes in 2007 came from Funeral For A Friend with a Top 3 placing in the UK, Machine Head’s first Top 20 album (also Kerrang’s Album Of The Year!), Hellogoodbye, Bow Wow, DJ Khaled, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Bow Wow & Omarion, Marques Houston, Fightstar, Carl Thomas and Kelly Rowland.
Other chart albums in the year featuring Notting Hill songs : Omarion, Mims, Timbaland, Kanye West, Booty Luv, Jay-Z, Mario, Gucci Mane, T.I., Beanie Sigel, 2Pac, Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Akon, Nas, Young Jeezy, Paul Wall, The Game, Jim Jones, JoJo, Paul Weller, Robbie Williams, Sugababes, Snoop Dogg, Cherish, Tank, Keyshia Cole, Luther Vandross, Groove Armada, David Guetta, Yung Joc, Ludacris, Simon Webbe, Fat Joe, Tim McGraw, P. Diddy, Notorious B.I.G., Pussycat Dolls, Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera & Destiny’s Child.

 

April 2007

Usually, the most difficult part of writing the website news update is deciding where to start. Not this time. Number one in the US Hot 100 is a pretty good place to begin and that’s where we are for the second week with Akon’s “Don’t Matter” taken from his double platinum album “Konvicted”. This is, in fact, one of 6 Notting Hill singles in the Hot 100 this week with Young Jeezy & R. Kelly’s “Go Getta” and Omarion’s “Icebox” climbing into the Top 20 with Bone Thugs N Harmony featuring Akon, Tank’s “Please Don’t Go” and Marques Houston’s latest hit “Circle” making up the Notting Hill contingent in the US chart.

Marques also has a new entry for his album in the US at number 5 and we are delighted with such a strong start for this, his third album. This follows a recent run of three consecutive number 1 US albums featuring Notting Hill songs from Nas, Young Jeezy and Omarion.

Notting Dale Songs has just concluded a deal with Hellogoodbye including their recent US Top 20 smash “Here (In Your Arms)” and the album “Zombie, Aliens, Vampires, Dinosaurs” as well as future material.  We are also thrilled to welcome Layzie Bone & WishBone of Bone Thugs N Harmony to the roster and eagerly anticipate their new album on Interscope in the coming weeks.

Also on the immediate horizon is the new album from Funeral For A Friend, “Tales Don’t Tell Themselves” on Atlantic worldwide which is by far their finest work to date and has to be heard to be believed. The first single “Into Oblivion” is already added to the Radio One playlist and should get the album off to a flying start.

Congratulations to Bodyrox for their nomination at the upcoming MTV Australia awards and thanks to Frank & all at Royalty Network for delivering three UK Top 20 singles in a row with P. Diddy. Congratulations also to Machine Head who scored their first Top 20 album in the UK (and all over Europe & Australia!)  this week with their new release “The Blackening” which has also entered the US chart at 54.

Chart albums in the quarter featuring Notting Hill songs : Omarion, Hellogoodbye, Akon, Machine Head, Marques Houston, Nas, Young Jeezy, Paul Wall, The Game, Jim Jones, JoJo, Paul Weller, Robbie Williams, Sugababes, Snoop Dogg, Cherish, Tupac, Luther Vandross, Yung Joc, Ludacris, Simon Webbe, Fat Joe, Tim McGraw, P. Diddy, Notorious B.I.G., Pussycat Dolls, Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera & Destiny’s Child.

 

November 2006

A number of hugely important signings have been made in this quarter in both the US and the UK. First off, producer Mike City joins us for all of his current and future projects including all releases on his Umbrella label through Universal. The first release under this agreement is Carl Thomas whose single is storming Urban AC radio in the States. Expect to see plenty more success from Mike and his projects in the near future. We are delighted to welcome production team The Runners who have rocketed to prominence through their recent work with Rick Ross (including the smash single “Hustlin”), Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Fat Joe, Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and Jim Jones to name a few. Further US hits in the quarter came from new signings Kochease (Yung Joc’s “I Know You See It”) and Jason Rome with the Luther Vandross single “Got U Home”. Webstar’s “Chicken Noodle Soup”, Omarion’s “Entourage” and The Game’s “It’s Okay” also delivered Hot 100 singles in the period.

Back in the UK, Jon Pearn & Nick Bridges joined the company on a long-term exclusive deal which includes their smash single “Yeah Yeah” recorded by Bodyrox featuring Luciana. The single peaked at number 2 on the UK singles chart and is now exploding across Europe. Producer Jerry Meehan has also signed a long term deal via our JV agreement with NuSong. The first 4 songs from that deal are featured on Robbie Williams new number 1 album “Rudebox”.  

We are also extremely proud to announce our exclusive publishing representation of eighties favourites Altered Images. The deal covers their entire catalogue including their biggest hits “Happy Birthday” and “I Could Be Happy”. Another wonderful addition to the catalogue comes from Phil Gould who has struck a deal for us to administer his shares of the Level 42 catalogue including “Running In The Family”, “Something About You” and “The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)”.

New chart albums in the quarter featuring Notting Hill songs : The Game, Jim Jones, Motorhead, JoJo, Paul Weller, Robbie Williams, Sugababes, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Cherish, Tupac, Norma Jean,  Luther Vandross, Yung Joc, Ludacris, Simon Webbe, Lupe Fiasco, Brooke Hogan, Fat Joe, Paris Hilton, Letoya, Tim McGraw, Diddy,

July 2006

We are delighted to report another simultaneous double in the US Top 10 singles for the second quarter running. This time the hits are from Field Mob featuring Ciara with their smash “So What” taken from the Top 10 US album “Light Poles & Pine Trees”.

The second is “Snap Yo Fingers” by Lil Jon featuring E-40 & Sean Paul of The Youngbloodz. This comes to us from new signing Sean Paul Joseph, who also has another US Top 20 single this week with the Cherish record “Do It To It”. Our deal includes all of Sean’s material which in addition to three Youngbloodz albums and numerous guest appearances will also encompass his forthcoming album on Jive Records.

Further new signings during the quarter include an international deal for Money Mack Music, the publishing arm of Cash Money Records which brings an extensive catalogue of hugely successful rap music including Juvenile & Lil Wayne.

The Danish producer Delgado (credits include Sugababes, Liberty X) joins us via our joint venture with Nu-Song and we certainly had a lot of fun (and another Top 10 hit single!) from this year’s UK Eurovision entry “Teenage Life” by Daz Sampson which came via our joint venture with 23rd Precinct Music. In the US new writers joining the roster include Lonny Bereal (credits include Jamie Foxx, Kelly Rowland & Snoop Dogg) and Francci (credits include Keyshia Cole, JoJo & Patti Labelle).

We are also extremely proud to announce our exclusive representation of the catalogue of the late Steve Marriott in the United States which includes classic Small Faces hits like “Itchycoo Park”, “All Or Nothing”, “Lazy Sunday” and “Tin Soldier.

Further big summer hits are expected from Supermode’s “Tell Me Why” in the UK and Omarion’s “Entourage” in the USA.

Finally, two more ASCAP awards and another BMI award were collected by the US companies in the quarter – this time for Pussycat Dolls “Don’t Cha”, Nelly & Tim McGraw’s “Over & Over” and Destiny’s Child with “Cater 2 U”.

 

 

April 2006

The first quarter of 2006 got off to a flying start with 2 singles simultaneously in the US Top 10 with Pussycat Dolls “Stickwitu” and Juelz Santana’s “There It Go (The Whistle Song”). Swiftly followed by a UK number 1 with Notorious B.I.G., Nelly & Avery Storm’s “Nasty Girl” and further Top 40 hits from Lee Ryan, Freemasons, Funeral For A Friend and Fightstar in the UK and 2006 looks like it will top 2005’s record-breaking year at Notting Hill Music. In March, Music Week named Notting Hill as the number one independent publisher for singles in the UK for the whole year of 2005.

Top 30 album debuts in the US for From First to Last and Fightstar in the UK show there is plenty of life in the rock market and we have also new albums scheduled for release this year from Motorhead, Unearth, 36 Crazyfists and Norma Jean.

Field Mob have stormed back into the US charts with 2 singles, the first being “Georgia” with Ludacris and now their own “So What” which features a guest vocal from Ciara. Their new album is due for release soon on Disturbing Tha Peace/Geffen and should be well worth the wait. Georgia is also featured in the smash-hit film “ATL” starring T.I.

Album cuts during the first quarter appear on US Top 30 albums by Jaheim, Jamie Foxx, Ne-yo, Tim McGraw, Keyshia Cole, Destiny’s Child, Nelly, Ludacris & DTP, Anthony Hamilton, Bow Wow, Trey Songz and Ciara.

December 2005

December brings our third UK number one single of 2005 with the Pussycat Dolls “Stickwitu” which is also a huge hit around the World and presently Top 5 in the Hot 100 in the US. Further hits in this period have come from Liberty X with their Top 10 cover of Shalamar’s “A Night To Remember”, which was the official single for the BBC’s Children In Need extravaganza, Funeral For A friend’s “History” and Will Smith’s “Party Starter”. Notting Hill is yet again the number one independent publisher for singles in Music Week’s UK market survey for the third quarter of 2005.

Mike Hamilton and Deacon Smith are currently enjoying a hit single in Japan with local star Double’s version of their song “Rock The Party”. Mike has also co-written the next Lee Ryan single “When I Think Of You” with fellow Notting Hill writers Leon Sylvers, Aaron Gowdy and Bernard Biddle. The song is already featured on Lee’s UK gold album and we are very hopeful of a big hit with the single in the New Year.

Congratulations to all of our artists nominated in the Grammy’s this year especially Robert “EST” Waller who picks up nominations in three categories including Best R&B Song for Destiny’s Child’s “Cater 2 U”. Our other nominees are Shadows Fall, Norma Jean and a host of writers featured on 4 out of the 5 nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album. They are: LT Hutton, Marques Houston, Platinum Status, Bryce Wilson, Bink, LaKiesha Miles & the ubiquitous EST.

Thank you to all who helped to make 2005 a landmark year for the Notting Hill Music Group and we look forward to continuing at a breakneck pace in 2006!

 

September 2005

What a summer! Just as the English sun begins to fade away the heat at Notting Hill is reaching boiling point with the Pussycat Dolls smash “Don’t Cha” entering the UK Singles Chart at number 1 and blowing up all over the World. After spending weeks at number 2 in the US it has reached the peak position in Canada and Australia and is now on course to be the one of the biggest smashes of the year. The single is the number one single in Europe in Billboard’s EuroCharts dated 24th September 2005.

New Notting Dale Songs signing Wyl-e Morris got off to a flying start with hit singles written for Charlotte Church (“Crazy Chick” peaked at number 2 in the UK in July) and Lemar (“Don’t Give It Up”). His writing trip to London in August was an outstanding success and we expect many more hits to come from him in the near future.

Further hits this summer came from Destiny’s Child with “Cater 2 U” reaching the Top 20 in the USA and Funeral For A Friend, Big Ang featuring Siobhan and Ian Brown all scoring hits in the UK.

Notting Hill Music Inc. is very proud to have concluded a sub-publishing agreement for the USA & Canada with classic songwriter Graham Lyle. The deal includes Graham’s future work together with his fantastic back catalogue featuring songs recorded by Diana Ross, Kenny Rogers, Simon & Garfunkel, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles and Tina Turner for whom he wrote “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero”.

Congratulations to Funeral For A Friend on their “Best British Band” award at the Kerrang 2005 Awards and to Pete Vale for the nomination of Lemar’s “If There’s Any Justice” as “Best Single” at this week’s MOBO Awards.

May 2005

Notting Dale Songs Inc. finished May by scooping four “Most Performed Work” awards at the ASCAP Pop Awards in Beverly Hills. Three of the awards were for Notting Dale writer Robert EST Waller’s work on Beyonce’s “Baby Boy”, “Me, Myself & I” and “Naughty Girl”. The fourth honouree was J-Kwon’s “Tipsy” on behalf of Notting Dale’s production team the Trackboyz. A further award was made for the Notting Dale administered “Roses” recorded by Outkast.

This has capped a fantastic start to the year for all the group companies with international hit singles from Will Smith, Nelly, Destiny’s Child & Lemar and dozens of cuts on chart albums with Omarion, Marques Houston, Amerie, Ciara, Mario, T.I., 112, Bobby Valentino, Snoop Dogg, Trick Daddy, Brandy, Nivea and Usher.

New signing Brooke Valentine continues her ascent of the Hot 100 with her single “Girlfight” reaching number 23 this week. After a successful launch in Japan, Brooke begins her assault on Europe with a promotional visit in June in support of her album “Chain Letter” on Virgin Records. Look out also for the debut solo album from her producer, Deja Johnson, on Virgin later in the year.

Funeral For A Friend have their second album “Hours” released worldwide by Atlantic on June 13th and they follow a sold out 22 date UK tour with a month on the Warped Tour in the USA in July and August. The first single “Streetcar” looks set for a Top 20 debut in the UK and the second single “Monsters” follows on August 22nd.

Also on the Warped Tour are From First To Last and three Notting Hill bands are now confirmed for Ozzfest :- Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage & As I Lay Dying.

New deals with producer Red Spyda (50 Cent, Obie Trice, D-12, Fabolous) and The Ultimate Group’s publishing division, Lyric Music, keep the cream of urban music flowing and two new rock acts, 36 Crazyfists and Norma Jean have also joined the roster.

Joint Venture deals have been secured with Channelfly Music Limited, the publishing wing of the venue operator and artist management firm, and with Factory Records founder Anthony H. Wilson for a publishing arm of his new F4 record label. Dance music company Hookline & Singer Music have also entered into a joint venture arrangement with Notting Hill Music.

Finally, IFPI Chairman and CEO John Kennedy joins the board of the company as a non-executive director. We are delighted to welcome John to the team.

February 2005

The final quarter of 2004 saw another leap forward on both sides of the Atlantic with simultaneous Top 3 hits at Christmas in the USA & UK with two different singles:

Nelly & Tim McGraw’s “Over & Over” in the US and Lemar with “If There’s Any Justice” in the UK. The Lemar song was written by new NHM signing Peter Vale and is now confirmed as the number 1 airplay song for the 4th Quarter in the UK and “Over & Over” is now certified as a gold download and the recipient of over 200,000 airplays in the US. Early indications are excellent for the international prospects of both records with “Over & Over” already number one and certified platinum in Australia!

Further hits came from Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” (also the Grammy winner for Best Rap Song!), Danni Minogue, Nadia and new signings Vs.

The rock signing frenzy continues with bands including Funeral For A Friend (Atlantic) whose debut album is already gold in the UK and who are presently recording their second album in Seattle. Shadows Fall delivered a Top 20 album in the US within weeks of signing and Philadelphia’s Silvertide are achieving strong sales in the US & Japan of their debut album “Show & Tell” on J/BMG.

Further new additions Earshot (Warners), From First To Last (Epitaph) and two Metal Blade bands As I Lay Dying and Unearth bring the total album sales from our newly launched rock roster to more than 2 million albums. Congratulations also to recent signings Motorhead for winning the Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

In the UK market shares for the third quarter of 2004 Notting Hill was again number 1 independent publisher for singles and was ranked 5th overall singles publisher and stood at 8th in the overall combined albums and singles shares and number 3 Independent overall.

Billboard’s Top 200 for February 19 2005 lists 16 albums containing Notting Hill Music songs from artists such as Destiny’s Child, Mario, Snoop Dogg, T.I., NAS, Cam’ron & Nelly with 5 certified multi-platinum, 4 platinum and 5 gold awards.

 

September 2004

The hottest summer on record at Notting Hill Music has brought us no fewer than 4 UK number one singles. Eamon’s “F**k It (I Don’t Want You Back)” and Frankee’s “F.U.R.B.” answerback led the way to be followed by Britney Spears “Everytime” and Mario Winans “I Don’t Wanna Know”. Further Top 10’s have included J-Kwon’s “Tipsy”, Outkast with “Roses”, V’s cover of The Jackson’s “Can You Feel It” and The Pirates “You Should Really Know”. Hits from Marques Houston, Lloyd Banks, Cassius Henry and Mark Morrison have also helped keep the thermometer rising!

In August, Music Week named Notting Hill Music as the number 1 Independent Publisher for singles and number 2 Independent overall in its market share survey for the second quarter of 2004. The company is also well placed at number 6 in the entire market for singles and number 7 in the overall market standings.

The US office has collected 2 more ASCAP Awards and a BMI Award at their respective hip-hop events and has added new signings the Burrell Brothers with their 3 cuts on the JoJo album and Producer Bink (Freeway, Jay-Z, JoJo, Xzibit & Nate Dogg) to its urban roster.

It has also begun a real assault on the rock market with a burst of new signings including Killswitch Engage, Motorhead, Sepultura, & My Ruin.

President Peter Chalcraft said, "We only ever had a small roster of rock bands at Notting Hill Music but with the continued growth in the rock music world we thought it was about time we as a company ventured back into this market. There are a number of great young bands that are coming up via strong independent labels here in the USA and these bands have strong international appeal - we want to be part of this." Killswitch Engage have their song “End Of Heartache” featured in the current number 1 US box office movie “Resident Evil – Apocalypse”

 

June 2004

The Company’s recent run of chart success shows no sign of slowing down with four singles presently in the US Top 30. Leading the way is Beyonce’s “Naughty Girl” followed in the Top 10 by Outkast with Roses. J-Kwon’s “Tipsy” and Britney Spears “Everytime” complete the quartet. In the R&B chart, two new entries from Erick Sermon and Universal newcomer Young Rome take the total of Notting Hill songs on the current R&B Singles chart to seven. Both artists have albums coming over the summer on which we publish the bulk of the songs. The guest artist on the Young Rome single, Omarion of B2K, also has an album full of songs written by NHM producers Platinum Status due for a summer release on Sony.

Back in Europe, Britney’s “Everytime” single” is Top 10 in most countries and looks set to make an impressive debut in the UK later in the month. Also eagerly anticipated are the singles from Outkast, J-Kwon, Flash Brothers & Marques Houston.

We are delighted to have signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Bruce Elliott-Smith, winner of a Grammy this year for Best Dance Production for his work with Kylie Minogue. Bruce has a multitude of new releases coming with such artists as ATB, Armin van Buuren, Angel City, Lee Cabrera and Matt Darey.

In the US, recent deals include a worldwide pact with hard rockers Machine Head and a long-term renewal of our agreement with production team the Trackboyz. Following the gold album and number 2 US single with their discovery J-Kwon and successes with Nelly, Nappy Roots & D12 the duo have now secured a label deal with Def Jam to sign and develop new artists and produce Def Jam artists.

 

March 2004:

Notting Hill Music, Inc. is celebrating an astonishing chart run in America this month beginning with the company publishing 7 singles in the Hot 100 simultaneously and culminating in THREE singles landing in the Top 10 in the same week from Beyonce (“Me, Myself & I”), J-Kwon (“Tipsy”) and Ruben Studdard (“Sorry 2004”).

The company has not exactly been slouching in the albums chart either with cuts on current gold & platinum albums from Beyonce, Ludacris, Ruben Studdard, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Nelly, Ginuwine, Sean Paul, Kelis, Youngbloodz, DMX, Missy Elliott, Monica, Mya & Jennifer Lopez.

Notting Hill Music (UK) Limited is also pleased to announce the signing of long term deals with writer/producers Matt Darey and Sammy Jay. Matt has enjoyed numerous hit singles, most notably with the club anthems “Beautiful” and “Liberation” and is currently preparing material for his debut album on Incentive. Sammy is best known for her co-writes with Mis-Teeq and Terri Walker and is working on a range of major label projects.

Recent synchronisation activity includes 5 songs in the US number 1 box office hit “You Got Served” starring B2K who also perform the songs on the accompanying soundtrack album. The Oscar nominated film “Lost In Translation” features David Nichtern’s “Midnight At The Oasis” and Erick Sermon’s “React” is included in the soundtrack of the film “Honey”.

Writing and production team the Trackboyz are celebrating a hat-trick of movie synchs with J-Kwon’s “Tipsy” in “Soul Plane”, The Youngbloodz “Lean Low” in “Torque” and Nelly’s “Air Force Ones” featured in “Love Don’t Cost A Thing”.


 
       
 

Danity Kane

Snoop Dogg

FloRida

Timbaland

Face Off

R Kelly

Akon - Konvicted

Marques Houston

Hellogoodbye

Young Jeezy

Paris Hilton

Motorhead

Ludacris

Tim McGraw

LeToya

Juelz Santana

The Notorious Big

The Pussycat Dolls

 

Liberty X

 

 

 

The Pussycat Dolls

 

Destiny's Child

 

 

 

Ascap pop music award 2005

 

 

Brooke Valentine

Funeral for a friend

Norma Jean

 

Lemar

Nelly & Tim McGraw

Funeral For a Friend

Earshot

 


Eamon

Frankee

Killswitch Engage

 



Young Rome

B2K

Machine Head

 

 

 

Beyonce

Ruben Studdard

MIchael Jackson