New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Downtown
Music Publishing has entered into a worldwide publishing agreement with Grammy-winning songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Bill Bottrell.
The deal covers Bottrell's interests in past and future works, including the songs he co-wrote with
Michael Jackson ("Black or White," "Dangerous," "Give Into Me" ),
Sheryl Crow ("All I Wanna Do," "Strong Enough," "Leaving Las Vegas,"),
Shelby Lynne ("Gotta Get Back"), and Five for Fighting ("One More Love"), among others.
"We are thrilled to welcome Bill Bottrell to Downtown -- his amazing songs span decades and cross genres," said Andrew Sparkler, Downtown's SVP of Business Development.
Bottrell's career began in the early 1980s as a freelance engineer, where he traveled between
Europe and Los Angeles. He worked for
Michael Jackson at his house in Encino between 1984 and 1986, recording tracks for Bad. In 1989,
Michael Jackson asked him to co-produce, engineer, and write songs for his album Dangerous, for which Bottrell co-wrote the album's biggest hit, "Black or White." The song spent seven weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1991.
In 1990, Bottrell built his own recording studio and founded a musical "think tank" called the "Tuesday Night
Music Club." One of the resulting acts was Sheryl Crow, whose 1993 debut album (produced and co-written by Bottrell) was entitled Tuesday Night
Music Club. Her single "
All I Wanna Do" from that album won the 1995 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for Bottrell and Crow. The album won three additional Grammys and sold 10 million worldwide and influenced a generation of female singers. Bottrell was also nominated for another Grammy for his work on Shelby Lynne's 1999 breakout album, I Am Shelby Lynne.
Since 2013, Education and seminar work at recording schools in
Europe and the U.S. became a focus. Most recently, Bottrell worked on a documentary film score with Nahara and has been involved with instrumentation and mixing for the last two
Leonard Cohen albums, Popular Problems and You Want It Darker.
About Downtown
Established in 2007, Downtown
Music Publishing is one of the world's leading rights-management firms with offices in major music markets around the globe, including New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Paris, and Sydney. The company's catalog spans over seven decades of popular music, encompassing some of the world's most beloved songwriters and artists including The Beatles,
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Hans Zimmer, The Kinks, One Direction, Mötley Crüe,
Robin Thicke, Naughty Boy, Hardwell, Sturgill Simpson, Santigold, Carla Bruni, and Social Distortion. Downtown
Music Publishing is wholly owned by Downtown & Company, which also owns New York-based Downtown
Music Studios and Songtrust, the world's largest technology platform for songwriting and music publishing royalties, which powers technology platform that powers global royalty collection from over 120 territories and more than 20,000 unique income sources worldwide.
