The new deal with UMPG was agreed between the band, their long-time manager Bertis Downs and Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO, UMPG.
With career sales of over 85 million albums, R.E.M. released 15 studio albums (nine of which went Top 5 on the Billboard 200), including Murmur, Lifes Rich Pageant, Document, Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, and their final album, the critically acclaimed Collapse into Now.
“R.E.M. is one of a small number of benchmark artists who have changed the course of popular music during their renowned career and, over the past 30 years they have been the model for every artist that wants to organically develop their career with the ambition of someday reaching ‘best band in the world’ status,” said Gerson.
“We are honored that R.E.M has chosen us to take care of their generation-defining catalog.”
Jody Gerson, UMPG
“We are honored that R.E.M. has chosen us to take care of their generation-defining catalogue.”
“As a band and an organization, we are excited to join forces with Universal Music Publishing for the next phase of R.E.M.’s legacy career,” said Downs.
“Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe’s body of work stands alongside any artist and the Universal machine is unparalleled in terms of what we look for in a global publisher,”
Some of R.E.M.’s most popular songs include “Losing My Religion,” “Everybody Hurts,” “The One I Love,” “Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” “Man on the Moon,” “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?,” “Fall On Me,” “Orange Crush,” “Driver 8,” “Nightswimming,” “Leaving New York,” and “Supernatural Superserious”.
R.E.M. has won three Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.Music Business Worldwide
