Expands 40-plus Year Partnership Between Springsteen and Sony Music
Agreement Covers Entirety of Springsteens Legendary Recorded Music and Songwriting
NEW YORK – WEBWIRE – Friday, December 17, 2021
Sony Music Group today announced it has acquired Bruce Springsteens entire recorded music and songwriting catalogs through separate agreements.
The two agreements cover the recorded music and music publishing rights to all of Springsteens songs, including Born to Run, Born In The USA Dancing in the Dark Glory Days, The River, Hungry Heart, Brilliant Disguise and Im On Fire, among many others. Sony Music Publishing partnered with Eldridge on the songwriting catalog purchase.
Springsteens recording career with Columbia Records spans nearly 50 years and continues to this day, beginning with his signing in 1972 and his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. Last year, he released Letter to You, his 20th studio album on Columbia.
Said Springsteen: I am one artist who can truly say that when I signed with Columbia Records in 1972, I came to the right place. During the last 50 years, the men and women of Sony Music have treated me with the greatest respect as an artist and as a person. Im thrilled that my legacy will continue to be cared for by the Company and people I know and trust.
A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen has garnered 20 Grammys, won an Oscar and a Tony, been named MusiCares Person of the Year, received a Kennedy Center Honor and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is the author of the 2016 best-selling memoir Born to Run (Simon & Schuster) and creator of Springsteen on Broadway, which debuted in 2017 with a historic 236-show run at Jujamcyns Walter Kerr Theatre. Springsteens most recent studio album, 2020s Letter to You, marked his first time recording live with the E Street Band in decades and debuted at #1 in eleven countries. His most recent tour with the E Street Band in 2016 was named that years top global tour by both Billboard and Pollstar. In 2021, Springsteen collaborated with President Barack Obama on the book and podcast Renegades: Born In The USA, reopened New York theaters with a reprisal of Springsteen On Broadway and shared his never-released The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts film, distributed by Sony Music Entertainments Premium Content Division.
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