Union Square Music Publishing is USM's original publishing
company, formed in 2006 and is home to the Nazareth catalogue, smooth-jazz king Bob James'
Remedi Music, Charles Mingus, Zed Bias and has recently concluded deals with
Swing Out Sister's Corinne Drewery and Andy Connell, including the double
Grammy nominated single Breakout, Brew Music Co, home to the rock
classic We're An American Band and legendary British songwriter Graham
Gouldman to represent his latest album, Love And Work.
USM Songs, our newest publishing venture established with former Complete Music
MD Martin Costello,has rapidly established itself through the signings of
influential UK songwriter Russ Ballard, writer of, amongst others, Since
You've Been Gone, So You Win Again, You Can Do Magic and New York Groove
and The Farm, including the perennial favourite All Together Now.
Rock Music Company is our most recent acquisition and includes well known copyrights from Syd Barrett (one of the original founders of Pink Floyd), alongside compositions from Nick Lowe, Hawkwind, The Damned, Captain Sensible and Eddie & The Hot Rods.
Union Square Music is one of the UK’s leading reissue and catalogue
compilation companies, trading on an international business throughout
the world. Since releasing our first CD titles in 2000 we have seen our
catalogue grow to over 1,500 physical and digital album releases and in
the process we have acquired and/or exclusively licensed a number of
high profile labels and catalogues for third party exploitation.
Our
catalogues include Madness, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Sandie Shaw, Nazareth,
Marmalade, Michael Crawford, Barbara Dickson, Richard Clayderman, Procol
Harum, Kirsty MacColl, the Original Rocky Horror Picture Show, M, Lene
Lovich and the Belle Stars.
We also own and/or administrate
labels such as ZTT (Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Art Of Noise &
Propaganda), Stiff (Tenpole Tudor, Jona Lewie, Tracey Ullman), Peer
Music (The Flowerpot Men, First Class), egrem (the Cuban state owned
label featuring original recordings by Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez
and Compay Segundo), Savoy Jazz (the home of be-bop), Denon Classics
(innovators in digital classical recording), Tappan Zee (home to
smooth-jazz king Bob James), Skye Gryphon jazz, as well as our own
extensive range of original musical theatre recordings, smooth jazz,
world-beats, relaxation music and children’s recordings.