Publishing

Time to pop a bottle or two, as Nettwerk artists collect several nominations for this year's 2010 Juno Awards in St Johns Newfoundland.

The Great Lake Swimmers hit yet another high note with their album Lost Channels, which gets the nod for Best Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year: Group. The nomination is the latest and greatest accolade for an album that has been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, The Folk Music Awards and two Canadian Indies Awards.

Nettwerk One had a great day as well, with two more of their artists getting some major nominations.  Johnny Reid received 4 Juno nominations:  Juno Fan Choice Award; Album of The Year (Dance with Me); Artist of The Year; Country Album of the Year (Dance with Me). New signing Ryan Stewart was nominated for Songwriter of the Year for Carly Rae Jepsen's "Tug of War" and "Money and Ego". He also received a nomination for Dance Recording of the Year for his song and production of "Shine for you" Carmen and Camille.

Nettwerk One Music (NW1) & Upper Class Recordings (UC) are happy to announce that NW1 will represent the publishing works of the phenomenally talented UC roster of artists in a freshly inked worldwide agreement.

“We are excited to help spread the word about such excellent Upper Class artists as The Russian Futurists and DVAS,” says Mark Jowett of NW1. “Orly (Bohbot) and Gareth (Jones) have super ears and have latched on to and helped develop some very promising artists, and we believe that NW1 can further help in this process.”

Toronto-based Upper Class was created in 2000 and has developed into a full-fledged management firm, record label and publishing house with an international reputation for producing unique and exciting music and artists. “Its roster seems to produce blissed-out electronic pop masterpieces like an assembly line.” (Lostatsea.net)

Nettwerk One (NW1) would like to congratulate Moraine Music/NW1 artist Johnny Reid swept the 2009 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards, held last week in Vancouver, BC. Reid won in the categories:

Best Album “Dance With Me “
Song of the Year “A Woman Like You”
Video of the Year
Male Artist of the Year
Fans’ Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year
Top Selling Canadian Artist of 2009 (with Reid’s “Dance With Me” CD being certified Gold in 48 hours and platinum in 8 weeks)

Accolades for Johnny Reid have ever increased since the release of his sophomore album, Kicking Stones, which has helped him achieve two 2008 CCMA Awards for Top Selling Canadian Recording and Top Male Artist. Now, with six CCMA Awards around his third album, Dance with Me, Johnny’s stature as a bright star in Country music is undeniable.

Brooklyn's Matt and Kim were awarded MTV’s Breakthrough Video award for their “Lessons Learned” music video by the moon man himself, Buzz Aldrin, at last nights 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The band beat out a slew of well-known nominees in the category including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bat For Lashes, Cold War Kids, Passion Pit, Death Cab for Cutie, Gnarls Barkley and Chairlift among others. The award-winning video for “Lesson’s Learned” (featured above), which is off the bands current release Grand (FADER Label in US; Nettwerk Records in UK and Europe) features the duo taking a stroll through Times Square while disrobing in the middle of February.

“After all the convincing it took me to get Kim to strip in Times Square she's finally gonna trust me!,” says Matt Johnson of Matt and Kim. “Every time she questions one of my dumb ideas I'll say ‘But Kim, remember that time we won the VMA!’”

NW1 is proud to announce that NW1/Moraine artist Johnny Reid is up for six major nominations at the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards, to be held in Vancouver this September. These nominations include:

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
ALBUM OF THE YEAR, DANCE WITH ME
SINGLE OF THE YEAR, “A WOMAN LIKE YOU”
VIDEO OF THE YEAR, “A WOMAN LIKE YOU”
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR, “A WOMAN LIKE YOU” (Johnny Reid & Brent Maher)
TOP SELLING ARTIST

Accolades for Johnny Reid have ever increased since the release of his sophomore album, Kicking Stones, which has helped the Scottish-born, Canadian singer/songwriter achieve CCMA Awards for Top Selling Canadian Recording and Top Male Artist. With his third release, Dance with Me, Johnny’s stature as a bright star in Country music is undeniable.

Fintage Music and Nettwerk One announced today a publishing partnership whereby Fintage will handle the administration of Nettwerk’s publishing entities, Nettwerk One, Artwerk Music llc, Nettwerk Songs Publishing & Manett Publishing in Benelux, Spain, Australia, Asia, S. America and Italy. 

The catalogues include songs by Sarah McLachlan, Sinead O'Connor, SUM 41, 10,000 Maniacs, Kanye West , The Outfield, Datarock, Matt & Kim and Super Furry Animals.