This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Business News Deals Labels & Publishers
BMG signs publishing deal with Katherine Jenkins
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 14 December 2012
Katherine Jenkins this week signed a publishing deal with BMG Chrysalis, who will now represent most of the publishing copyrights on the classical crossover star’s new album ‘This Is Christmas’.
Although the festive record consists mainly of reworks of standards, including ‘Ding Dong Merrily On High’ and ‘Away In A Manger’, new copyrights exist in the adaptations, and Jenkins has a stake in those rights from her involvement in reworking the pieces she performs. It’s those rights that BMG will represent under the new deal.
Confirming the new agreement, BMG UK chief Alexi Cory-Smith told CMU: “Katherine Jenkins has brought classical music to a new, more mainstream audience and we are delighted to be working with her on this seasonal Christmas collection”.
Meanwhile Jenkins’ manager Tara Joseph added: “It is great to be partnering up with BMG Chrysalis for Katherine’s first Christmas album. Alexi and her team are absolutely first class so we are really looking forward to working with them especially building on the growing success in the US”.