Warner Chappell rises to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and holds second place on Radio Airplay despite a slight dip in market share.
The Big Loud executive fills the publishing position held by the late Ben Vaughn.
The new deal is expected to improve remuneration for songwriters, like UMPG and WCM's deals did earlier this year.
Past recipients of the International Music Person of the Year honor include Monte and Avery Lipman, Daniel Glass and Steve Schnur.
The deals includes master and recording rights to "I Melt With You," and Poncia's publishing rights to songs he co-wrote for KISS and Leo Sayer.
This week's roundup of deals and doings in the wide world of music publishing.
The partnership was signed via a creative joint venture with Alicea's manager, DJ Buddah.
Swedish songwriters and producers create global hits for artists in other countries. What do they do when tastes turn to local music?
The annual general assembly of CISAC, the trade organization of collecting societies, was full of talk about new technology — and how it could help creators, as well as hurt them.
This marks Kobalt's first use of a third-party platform for global sync transactions.
