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SYDNEY, Australia – As Jet flies through a particularly busy stretch, the reunited rock band strikes a catalog deal with BMG.
Terms were not disclosed in the arrangement, announced Thursday (Sept. 28), which sees BMG acquire Jet’s recordings.
BMG gets rights to the band’s first two albums for Australian and New Zealand, Get Born (2003) and Shine On (2006), the global royalty stream for these recordings in perpetuity, plus global rights to their third album Shaka Rock (2009).
Included in the pact are such Billboard Hot 100 hits as “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” (peaking at No. 29), “Look What You’ve Done” (No. 37), and “Cold Hard Bitch” (No. 55).
After years on the sidelines, the classic lineup of Nic Cester (vocals/guitar) his brother Chris Cester (vocals/drums), Cam Muncey (vocals/guitar) and Mark Wilson (bass) recently reformed ahead of their induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, set for Nov. 15 during the annual ARIA Awards in Sydney.
They’re currently on the road for a national tour, a 20th anniversary celebration of Get Born, an album that won six ARIA Awards back in 2004, is nine-times platinum-certified, and recognized as one of the top 5 highest-selling Australian rock albums of all time.
BMG president, Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia, Heath Johns negotiated what he describes as a landmark deal,” extending the global publishing pact between both parties, forged in 2017.
Jet, he continues, are a “generation-defining band who achieved global success of the rarest kind.”
All three studio albums impacted the top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart, and cracked the Official U.K. Albums Chart, with Get Born peaking at No. 14 and Shine On going one better, at No. 13. Career sales top 5 million, reps say.
Jet’s works have enjoyed a second life through syncs across international advertising campaigns, feature films, TV series and video game franchises, the most memorable an Apple iPod campaign in the 2000s featuring “Are You Gonna Be My Girl.”
BMG, explains Sydney-based Johns, “has become the fastest-growing music company in Australia via our organic recordings and publishing growth and now, as we expand our scope via acquisition, I can think of no bigger statement than the acquisition of the Jet catalog.”
Since opening for business in Australia in 2016, BMG has signed a roster of Australian and New Zealand acts including Chet Faker, Angus & Julia Stone (ANZ), Daniel Johns, Dope Lemon, Hockey Dad, Julia Stone, The Living End, Pacific Avenue, Ladyhawke, CHAII, Dune Rats and Winston Surfshirt.
“With big decisions like this it comes down to personal relationships. We’ve known the BMG team for years,” notes Chris Cester in a statement announcing the new agreement. “We’re already with BMG for our publishing and they do what they say they’re gonna do. That’s a rare thing in this business. Sooner or later you figure out that’s the only thing that matters, if you’re serious about what you do.”
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“One More Time” is the second song released from Blink-182’s album of the same name, to be released Oct. 20 as its first since 2019’s Nine and first since Tom DeLonge rejoined the band. The track premiered Sept. 21.
Concurrently, “One More Time” debuts at No. 44 on the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Rock & Alternative Songs list with 2.8 million radio audience impressions, 1.4 million official U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads, according to Luminate.
A third song from One More Time, “More Than You Know,” also reaches Hot Trending Songs, debuting at No. 15. The lead single, “Edging,” led Billboard’s Alternative Airplay survey for 13 weeks beginning in November 2022.
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Kim Petras’ “Problematique,” the title track from her second album of 2023, rounds out the top three.
Keep visiting Billboard.com for the constantly evolving Hot Trending Songs rankings, and check in each Tuesday for the latest weekly chart.
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On the surface, it would be hard to see any parallels between Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, 80, and Taylor Swift, 33, aside from the fact that both are mega stars who send people into a frenzy when they walk into a room. But in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal (pay-walled), the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer revealed that he feels a certain kinship with the “Anti-Hero” singer when it comes to the business of show.
London School of Economics dropout Jagger — who said he began looking after the Stones’ business affairs decades ago as an “act of self-preservation” because, as he said, “If you don’t do it, you get f–ked” — told the WSJ that he’s proud to have paved the way for artists such as Swift to pull off huge arena and stadium tours.
“One of the things I’m really proud of, with the Stones, is that we pioneered arena tours, with their own stage, with their own sound and everything, and we also did the same with stadiums,” Jagger said. “I mean, nobody did a tour of stadiums.” In addition, Jagger said that the Stones’ decision to form their own eponymous label in 1970 — with initial distribution though Atlantic Records — was an effort to take control of their rights that also has echoes in Swift’s career.
“The industry was so nascent, it didn’t have the support and the amount of people that are on tap to be able to advise you as they do now,” Jagger said of his band’s move toward more autonomy more than 50 years ago. “But you know, it still happens. I mean, look what happened to Taylor Swift! I don’t really know the ins and outs of it, but she obviously wasn’t happy.”
Jagger appeared to be referencing Swift’s plan to re-record her first six albums in (Taylor’s Version) formats following a dispute with her former label, Big Machine Records, after it sold the rights to those LPs to nemesis Scooter Braun; to date Swift has released re-recorded versions of Fearless, Red and Speak Now, with the 1989 Version slated to drop on Oct. 27.
The Stones are gearing up to release their first new studio album in 18 years, Hackney Diamonds (Oct. 20) and while the legendarily hard-touring band have yet to announce dates for an accompanying tour, Jagger said he’s not sure what it will look like when the octogenarian legends finally retire from the road.
“You can have a posthumous business now, can’t you? You can have a posthumous tour,” he said of the possibility of a virtual Stones tour in the future that will not require their physical bodies. “The technology has really moved on since the ABBA thing [the pop group’s recent “Voyage” virtual show], which I was supposed to go to, but I missed it.”
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