Royal Wood – Ghost Light Rufus Wainwright – Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets André Rieu – Magic Of The Waltz Check out new releases in our Vinyl Section! New Releases From Classics And Jazz Inside!!! And more… UNI16-15 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2450 Victoria Park Ave., Suite 1, Willowdale, Ontario M2J 5H3 Phone: (416) 718.4000 *Artwork shown may not be final UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA NEW RELEASE Artist/Title: Various Artists / Now! 26 Bar Code: Cat. #: 0254782454 Price Code: G Order Due: March 3, 2016 Release Date: April 1, 2016 6 02547 82454 7 File: Pop Genre Code: 33 Box Lot: 25 Key Tracks: SUPER SHORT SELL Key Points: National Major TV, Radio Online Advertising Campaign Now! Brand is consistently one of the strongest and best‐selling compilations every year The NOW! brand has generated sales of over 200 million albums worldwide Sold over 4 million copies in Canada since its debut. 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Also Available: Artist/Title: Various / Now! 25 Cat#: 0254750866 Price Code: JSP UPC#: 02547 50866 6 9 INTERNAL USE Label Name: Universal Music Canada Territory: Domestic Release Type: O For additional artist information please contact Nick at 416‐718‐4045 or [email protected] UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2450 Victoria Park Avenue, Suite 1, Toronto, ON M2J 5H3 Phone: (416) 718‐4000 Fax: (416) 718‐4218 UNIVERS AL M USI C CA NAD A N EW RELEASE Artist/Title: THE STRUMBELLAS / HOPE (CD) Cat. #: SIX097 Price Code: SP Order Due: March 24, 2016 Release Date: APRIL 22, 2016 File: alternative folk Genre Code: 2 Box Lot: Bar Code: Key Tracks: 8 367 66 00974 8 ‐ Spirits ‐ Wars ‐ Shovels & Dirt Vinyl product also available. Please see vinyl release section for product information. The Strumbellas are building a major story with Hope, an album jam‐packed with memorable, radio‐ready songs from top to bottom. The first single, “Spirits” is dominating Canadian Alternative radio (#1 for two weeks running), and climbing the charts in other important formats ‐ Active Rock, Hot AC and Top 40. The song is already Top 10 at Alternative Radio in the USA and growing. Onnline engagement and awareness is building at an incredible rate as well ‐ the video for “Spirits” has accumulated nearly 500,000 views in less than a month. The band has major media milestones in the works, with their late night television debut confirmed on Jimmy Kimmel Live (airing March 1, 2016) and other big news to come. With Hope, The Strumbellas are poised to break on an international scale. Canadian fanns have known and loved the band since the beginning (their last album, We Still Move On Dance Floors won a Juno and numerous other awards). The band has an incredibly loyal fan base across the country, and with key festival dates already confirmed (some yet UNANNOUNCED), including Osheaga and both editions of Six Shooter’s Interstellar Rodeo, The Strumbellas are going to deliver on all of the promise and potential this new album brings. TOUR DATES: Feb 27 – Mile One Centre – St. John’s, NL March 8 ‐ NaNola – Malta, NY March 10 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY March 12 – Central Park at Atlanta Station – Atlanta, GA March 14 – The High Watt – Nashville, TN March 16 – 19 – SXSW (various venues) – Austin, TX April 30 – Edgefest – Dallas, TX July 29 – Osheaga – Montreal, QC INTERNAL USE Label Name: Six Shooter Territory: Domestic Release Type: D For additional artist information please contact [email protected] / 416‐718‐4247 UNIVERS AL M USIC 2450 Victoria Park Avenue, Suite 1, Toronto, ON M2J 5H3 Phone: (416) 718‐4000 Fax: (416) 718‐4218 Artist/Title: Royal Wood / GHOST LIGHT (CD) Bar Code: Cat. #: MRCD6582 Price Code: SP Order Due: March 24, 2016 Release Date: April 22, 2016 File: Pop / Singer‐ Songwriter Genre Code: 33 Box Lot: 30 Label: Cadence Music / Fontana North Rep Owner: Fontana North Royal Wood Returns With New Album GHOST LIGHT – April 22, 2016 "This album for me was a full return to writing and recording simply for the joy of creation…A true letting go and allowing,” says Royal. The result is an album that exudes raw emotion and emanates a feel of the soongwriters of the sixties and seventies. “I felt like on this album, I snuffed out the external Ghost Lights, and allowed my internal light to glow instead,” – Royal Woood Key Highlights: ‐ First single “Long Way Out” voted #36 on CBC Radio 2’s top songs of 22015 and charted multiple times on the CBC Radio 2 Top 20 and the earshot! campus charts ‐ Canadian Tour to support GHOST LIGHT in spring 2016, including a show at the National Arts Centre’s Southam Hall (May 6), with the NAC Orchestra and shows at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall ((May 7) and London’s Aeolian Hall (May 12‐14) ‐ Press so far includes the Ottawa Citizen, HELLO magazine, Canada AM, Monte Cristo Magazine, and Exclaim! with more national press planned around album release ‐ New single, “Good To Be Young” debuting March 2016 ‐ Partnerships around GHOST LIGHT that will raise Royal’s visibility including Fielding Estate Winery and Nordstrom Canada ‐ Multiple JUNO award nominations ‐ High‐profile sync placements including: Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Hockey Night in Canada Track Listing: Press Quotes: A World Between Us “Wood’s manner is smooth, heartfelt and direct” Come Back To You and “impressive and expressive” ‐ The Globe Til The Morning Comes and Mail I’m Gonna Marry You I Still Believe "The cream of Canada’s songwriting crop." – Long Way Out Exclaim! Dear Anna Morning Light "One of Canada’s major talents." ‐ Metro Weight Of A Stone To Forgive I Was The Man Ghost Light Good To Be Young INTERNAL USE Label Name: Cadence Music / Fontana North Territory: Domestic Release Type: D For additional artist information please contact Ashley Sperling at 416‐718‐6546 or [email protected] UNIVERS AL M USI C CA NAD A N EW RELEASE Artist/Title: Rufus Wainwright – Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets Cat. #: 4795508 Price Code: JSP Order Due: March 24, 2016 Release Date: April 22, 2016 File: Classical / Pop Genre Code: Box Lot: 25 11/33 Key Tracks: 0 2894 7 95508 5 When in Disgrace – w/ Florence Welch An Unperfect Actor – Martha Wainwright If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it – Duke Orsino, Twelfth Night Singer‐songwriter Rufus Wainwright presents his Shakespeare Sonneets, a collection of his own compositions on beloved texts by the most performed playwright in the world – William Shakespeare – who died 400 years ago on 23 April, and who will be celebrated across the Globe for ‘Shakespeare Year’ in 2016 Wainwright is joined on this album by Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine on "When in Disgrace", and teams up with sister Martha Wainwright on "An Unperfect Actor". Always fascinated by the operatic voice, Rufus has enlisted soprano Anna Prohaska for a number of classically inspired tracks together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – and of course performs a number of Solo tracks of his own! In celebration of this Shakespeare Year, Wainwright has collaboratedd with some of the most revered actors of our time to record spoken word versions of each of the Sonnets, including Helena Bonham Carter, Sian Philips, Peter Eyre, Carrie Fisher and William Shatner Rufus will be in market doing major national promotion. Also Availaable: Artist/Title: Rufus Wainwright – Prima Donna Cat#: 4795340 Price Code: QQ UPC#: 028947953401 INTERNAL USE Label Name: Deutsche Grammophon Territory: International Release Type: O For additional artist information please contact Thom McKercher at 416‐718‐4056 or [email protected]. UNIVERS AL M USIC 2450 Victoria Park Avenue, Suite 1, Toronto, ON M2J 5H3 Phone: (416) 718‐4000 Fax: (416) 718‐4218 UNIVERS AL M USI C CA NAD A N EW RELEASE Artist/Title: André Rieu – Magic of the Waltz (CD) Cat. #: 4783783 Price Code: N Order Due: March 17, 2016 Release Date: April 15, 2016 File: Classical Genre Code: 11 Box Lot: 25 Key Tracks: 6 0254 7 83783 7 The Windsor Waltz – written to honour H.R.H. Elizabeth II’s 90th Birthday ‐ April 21, 2016 Other tracks: The Blue Danube / The Merry Widow (Lip's Are Sealed) SHORT SELL / Valse Triste / Edelweiss / The Marino Waltz / Walzer Medley / The Godfather Waltz / Strauss & Co. / Dreaming of New Zealand / La Petite Valse / And The Waltz Goes On / My Lovesong Should Be A Waltz / That's Amore / Grande Valse Viennoise KEY POINTS From a very early age, André Rieu knew that there was something magical about waltz music. Defining this magic and making it accessible for everyone became his life’s mission so he was crowned by his audiences as “King of The Waltz”. Magic of the Waltz presents the most beautiful and enchanting waltzes, selected, curated, performed, and sometimes even composed, by André himself. The brand new “Windsor Waltz”, written for the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday, the famous “Blue Danube”, “Edelweiss”, “The Godfather” as well as the incredible “And The Waltz Goes On”. Also Availaable: Artist/Title: André Rieu – Love In Venice Cat#: 3794632 Price Code: UPC#: 602537946327 INTERNAL USE Label Name: Polydor Territory: International Release Type: O For additional artist information please contact Thom McKercher at 416‐718‐4056 or [email protected]. UNIVERS AL M USIC 2450 Victoria Park Avenue, Suite 1, Toronto, ON M2J 5H3 Phone: (416) 718‐4000 Fax: (416) 718‐4218 UNIVERS AL M USI C CA NAD A N EW RELEASE Artist/Title: André Rieu – Magic of the Waltz (DVD) Cat.