Downtown inks deal to represent the catalog of Summertime composer George Gershwin

Summertime has seen renditions by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Janis Joplin and others
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Downtown enters JV with Cowboys & Pirates to develop Hip-Hop and R&B talent

Downtown Music Publishing has entered into a joint venture with independent publisher Cowboys & Pirates. The collaboration is focused on developing new songwriters and producers within the hip-hop and R&B songwriting community, which has tradit…

Downtown’s Justin Kalifowitz to take part in keynote conversation at the Great Escape 2019

UK music conference also launches brand new day aimed at emerging artists
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CD Baby, AVL Digital Acquired By Downtown Music

Downtown Music Holdings has acquired AVL Digital Group and its portfolio of music distribution, rights management and artist services businesses, including CD Baby, AdRev, DashGo and Soundrop. DMH is the company behind Downtown Music Publishing and Songtrust. The deal is estimated to be worth $200 million. In 2018, CD Baby…

Hip-hop producer CBMix, aka Chris Barnett, inks global deal with Downtown Music Publishing

Barnett has worked with Lil Pump, Wiz Khalifa, Chance the Rapper, Juice WRLD, Kanye West and others
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Downtown signs worldwide music publishing deal with Tori Amos

Downtown will administer the singer and composer’s complete songbook and future works
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Downtown appoints Republic Records exec Delmar Powell as VP of A&R

Prior to Downtown, Powell served as Director, A&R Urban at Republic Records
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