Round Hill Music


Round Hill Music is an American music publishing company founded in 2010 by Josh Gruss along with Richard Rowe, and Neil Gillis. The company runs a music publishing division, sync and royalty administration, music production library business, a record label and label services division as well as a Nashville songwriter services group with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville and London.

Divisions

Music publishing

In January 2012, Round Hill and Adage Classics jointly acquired the GIL Music and GPS Music catalogs, which included six Beatles songs, including "I Saw Her Standing There".
In September 2017, Round Hill made its largest acquisition to date, paying $250 million for the Carlin America publisher. Carlin owned the rights to songs recorded by Elvis Presley, among other artists.
In 2017 Round Hill entered into a partnership with Zync for synchronization.
In August 2019, Round Hill signed a sub-publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, which will represent Round Hill's catalogue outside of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordics.
Round Hill also has signed the catalogues of KK Downing, Skid Row, Judas Priest, Jani Lane, Triumph, Tesla, Ronnie James Dio, Neil Sedaka, John_Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls, Big Loud Shirt, Ashley_Gorley, Arthouse Entertainment, Josh_Kear, Big Tractorhttps://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/music/2014/10/29/round-hill-music-buys-local-song-catalog-adds-staff/18076349/ and Eric Carmen.

Round Hill Records

In 2014, Round Hill Records was established with the catalog acquisition of the UK rock band Bush.
In January 2016, Round Hill paid $35 million for the entire song publishing catalogue of American rock band The Offspring, as well as the band's Columbia Records recordings. Today Round Hill Records is releasing records from artists such as Royal Teeth and The London Souls, as well as providing label services to many other artists.
In 2020 Round Hill Records created a rock dedicated label called Black Hill Records which has signed The Cult, Black Pistol Fire and Jared James Nichols.

Round Hill Music Royalty Fund

Round Hill Music Royalty Partners is the private equity arm of Round Hill Music which is dedicated to acquiring copyrights of music.
It raised its first Fund in 2014 with $202 million and its second fund with $263 million in 2017.

Copyright lawsuit

In 2014 Round Hill Music and BMG Rights Management sued Cox Communications for the copyright infringements of its subscribers. In December 2015 the case was decided in BMG and Round Hill Music's favor.