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Spirit Music Group has promoted Frank Rogers to Chief Inventive Officer, Spirit Music Group/Chief Government Officer, Spirit Music Nashville.
In his new function, Rogers might be chargeable for overseeing all points of Spirit Music Group’s world roster and artistic actions in addition to persevering with to supervise Spirit Music Nashville’s operational actions.
Rogers will proceed to be based mostly in Nashville.
In 2016, Spirit Music Group shaped a multi-facted cope with Frank Rogers and his firm Fluid Music Revolution forming the Spirit/Fluid three way partnership.
By the settlement, Spirit acquired Rogers’ one-third curiosity in sure copyrights of Sea Gayle Music.
He additionally joined Spirit’s roster as a songwriter, and the corporate solely administers all of his new compositions worldwide. In 2019, Spirit Music Group appointed Rogers CEO of Spirit Music Nashville.
Rogers moved to Nashville in 1990 and received his music enterprise diploma from Belmont College the place he met future collaborator Brad Paisley.
Rogers then labored for EMI Nashville Manufacturing and opened up Nashville indie writer Sea Gayle Music with Paisley and Chris DuBois.
Throughout his time at Spirit Music Group, Rogers introduced the acquisition of plenty of the grasp recordings of Tim McGraw, together with his hits Freeway Don’t Care and Humble & Variety (Grammy Finest Nation Music, CMT Video of the Yr, CMA Music of the Yr, and AMA Favourite Nation Music).
Spirit additionally just lately introduced the acquisition of the artist’s portion of the masters for Jason Aldean. The deal encompasses 9 albums, together with 24 No.1 songs, 34 High 10 songs, and 6 RIAA licensed Platinum albums.
All of those albums have traditionally been launched through Damaged Bow Information, which BMG acquired in 2017 for $103 million. BMG/Damaged Bow confirmed it can proceed to be the exclusive licensedpartner for Aldean’s data till at the very least 2030.
The acquisition additionally included neighbouring rights and SoundExchange royalties.
Beneath Frank Rogers’ management, Spirit Music Nashville additionally acquired a portion of the publishing catalog of hit songwriters Jonathan Singleton and 4 instances Grammy winner David Garcia (co-writer/co-producer of Meant to Be which spent 50 weeks at No.1, ASCAP’s 2019 Christian Songwriter of the Yr).
Along with being a music publishing government, Frank Rogers is a multi-platinum producer and songwriter who Spirit says has produced 44 No.1 singles, 80+ High 20 singles and 60+ RIAA licensed multi-platinum/platinum/gold data or singles.
He has labored with artists that embody Hint Adkins, Brad Paisley, Josh Turner, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Keith City, Dolly Parton, Allison Krauss, Frank Ray, and Scotty McCreery.
Rogers has 18 CMA nominations (with one win) and 27 ACM nominations (with 5 wins) and has produced 17 Grammy nominated songs/albums together with 4 winners.
Rogers has co-written songs together with I’m Gonna Miss Her (Brad Paisley); Alright and This (Darius Rucker); 5 Extra Minutes, This Is It, In Between, You Time (Scotty McCreery); and Backroad Music (Granger Smith).
His songs have been recorded by artists together with Chris Stapleton, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Kenny Rogers, Clint Black, Hootie And The Blowfish, Lee Brice, Kidd Rock, Billy Gibbons and Matthew West.
“Frank brings a wealth of expertise to our enterprise, each as a multi-platinum songwriter/music producer in his personal proper and as a extremely achieved music publishing government with a confirmed historical past of delivering hit after hit with our roster.
Jon Singer, Spirit Music Group
Jon Singer, Chairman, Spirit Music Group, mentioned: “I’m assured Frank is the precise individual to steer Spirit Music Group’s world inventive staff on this subsequent thrilling chapter.
“Frank brings a wealth of expertise to our enterprise, each as a multi-platinum songwriter/music producer in his personal proper and as a extremely achieved music publishing government with a confirmed historical past of delivering hit after hit with our roster.
“We’re thrilled to offer Spirit Music Group’s world roster of artists, songwriters and producers of each style the perfect in government expertise and a inventive government on the helm who is aware of how you can construct enterprise and careers for our writers.
“What Frank has achieved with Spirit Music Nashville is a superb instance of what a music publishing neighborhood firing on all cylinders can accomplish and we stay up for seeing him apply his inventive technique all through our world places of work.”
“We’re thrilled that Frank has chosen to proceed constructing on his historical past of success with Spirit Music Group.”
Joe Borrino, Spirit Music Group
Joe Borrino, Chief Working Officer/Chief Monetary Officer, Spirit Music Group, mentioned: “Frank’s expertise speaks for itself. He’s a consummate music publishing government and a real music man who understands each aspect of the music publishing enterprise.
“We’re thrilled that Frank has chosen to proceed constructing on his historical past of success with Spirit Music Group.”
“I’m honored to proceed and to broaden my relationship with Spirit Music Group.”
Frank Rogers
Frank Rogers mentioned: “I’m honored to proceed and to broaden my relationship with Spirit Music Group. Jon Singer, Ross Cameron and Joe Borrino have been nice companions over the past a number of years and I stay up for persevering with to construct on Spirit’s spectacular basis.
“I’m excited to work with all of Spirit’s songwriters and employees with the objective of increasing our world presence whereas making Spirit Music Group the preeminent impartial music writer on the planet.”
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