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FERGUSON INKS DEAL WITH EMI PUBLISHING
EMI Music Publishing has signed a worldwide deal with 2010 X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson.
The agreement includes her debut album Heaven, whose 10 tracks were all co-written by Ferguson and takes in collaborations with acclaimed songwriters such as Fraser T Smith, Eg White and Steve Booker. The album reached number three on the UK albums chart last December and it has sold around 450,000 copies domestically, according to the Official Charts Company.
Ferguson said: “I’m so excited to be working with EMI Music Publishing. They have such a great history and so many fantastic songwriters have signed with them. I’m looking forward to a successful and creative relationship.”
EMI Music Publishing president, UK and European A&R Guy Moot added: “We are thrilled to have signed Rebecca. Her career is off to a flying start and her talent as a songwriter is undeniable. The whole team have been deeply impressed by Rebecca’s natural songwriting ability from the start. She writes honestly and from the heart and that allows her to connect with people. We’re now looking forward to creating opportunities for her music to be heard on a worldwide stage.”
Moot’s company previously signed a publishing deal with fellow X Factor runners-up JLS at the end of 2009.
Ferguson is currently touring the UK, while her album is now starting to be pushed internationally and is due to be released in the US in May.
• CREDIT: MusicWeek.com
REBECCA FERGUSON SIGNS BIG MONEY PUBLISHING DEAL
EMI want to take her music to ‘the worldwide stage’
Rebecca Ferguson has signed a publishing deal with EMI that will apparently see her debut album brought to “the worldwide stage”.
It had been reported late last year that the X Factor runner-up’s work had impressed publishers so much that they were willing to bid up to £1 million for the rights to it – and it appears EMI, who also deal with JLS, emerged victorious.
She said in a statement: “I’m so excited to be working with EMI Music Publishing. They have such a great history and so many fantastic songwriters have signed with them. I’m looking forward to a successful and creative relationship.”
Company president, UK and European A&R Guy Moot added: “We are thrilled to have signed Rebecca. Her career is off to a flying start and her talent as a songwriter is undeniable. The whole team have been deeply impressed by Rebecca’s natural songwriting ability from the start.
“She writes honestly and from the heart and that allows her to connect with people. We’re now looking forward to creating opportunities for her music to be heard on a worldwide stage.”
Rebecca recently revealed that she has been working on some more uptempo music, and would be open to a collaboration with David Guetta at some point in the future.
• CREDIT: EntertainmentWise.com
PHOTOGRAPHS: REBECCA FERGUSON, YORK BARBICAN
REVIEW: REBECCA FERGUSON, YORK BARBICAN
THE ex-X Factor world tends to move on quickly, but Rebecca Ferguson is taking it one steady step at a time.
What she had found already was her voice, big and blue, soulful and as truthful, often tender, thrilling at moments of climax, as expressive of the wounded as the wow.
We knew that from the 2010 series the Liverpool mother of two should have won, leading to a supportive Friday night full house, from the young with their Thank You So Much Rebecca signs and accompanying mums, to the happy loving young couples and the Saturday TV regulars, deserting their sofa for a night out.
We knew too from December’s divine debut album – the aptly named Heaven – that Rebecca had found a way to express that vintage voice with songs as memorable, universal and affecting as on Adele’s 21.
The question that remained was how had her stagecraft progressed to sustain a headline touring show, a giant leap from her nightclub past?
A black curtain drops to reveal Rebecca in figure-hugging, shimmering silver, matched by her shoes and the bandstands for a classic if overloaded line-up in black: bass, rhythm and lead guitars, drummer, keyboard player and two female backing singers. But why is a table with water placed out front, not behind Rebecca?
“Isn’t it amazing what a lonely heart will have you do,” she sings, as she opens with Fighting Suspicions, and straightaway her way with making key words – “amazing” and “lonely” – hit you in the gut strikes you.
First thoughts: Rebecca does not move much, a raising of the left hand here, a hitch of the dress there; she always looks down, not up, when singing, but she has such rhythm and flow, and don’t you just love how she knows when to hold back, then maximise a defining moment.
What is immediately apparent as she moves from Mr Bright Eyes to Glitter & Gold is that her vocal confidence exceeds the rest of her still developing performance skills. Interacting with her players will come the more she performs. For the moment, it is Rebecca and some musicians, not Rebecca’s band, a gap rather than a groove.
Second thoughts: she loosens up the more she chatters, and she has a naturally confessional, heartfelt manner, talking about the important things in her life, love, her children, not materialism. What a contrast to the sisterhood of bling and titillation.
Shoulder To Shoulder is breath-taking, before two successive cover versions, the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter and Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come, reveal she is better so far at the slow-burning Cooke than the Jagger swagger.
Final thoughts: Rebecca taking a seat to perform the ballad Teach Me How To Be Loved is an inspired move (she could do it more often); Rebecca dancing in Run Free is a joyous sight (she should do that more often too); and Nothing’s Real But Love is the perfect encore.
She is real, and long may this diamond have rough edges, but there is room for a guiding hand to make her live show even better.
• CREDIT: YorkPress.co.uk
REBECCA FERGUSON WANTS GUETTA COLLABORATION
Rebecca Ferguson would love to provide vocals for one of David guetta’s tracks.
The ‘Nothing’s Real but Love’ singer is a big fan of dance music, and would one day love to collaborate with the French producer on a track.
She said: ”I’ve been a fan of his since back in the day. I love the song ‘Titanium’.
”There will be a time for me to do dance music, but not now. But I would love to do vocals on a dance tune so maybe I should give David a call soon.”
While she isn’t ready to change musical directions just yet, Rebecca has been working on dance tracks for other artists.
She added to the Daily Star newspaper: ”I like dance music a lot. I think I’ve got a dance album in me.
”I’ve just been sent some songs by [record company] EMI that they want me to work on. So I’m writing some dance music on the road – but not for me, for other artists.”
The 25-year-old star is hoping her latest single, ‘Too Good To Lose’, shows fans a side to her music which is different to what they would normally associate with her.
She added: ”I wanted to show a different side of my personality with the song.
”It’s definitely got a different vibe to the big soul ballad people associate me with.”
• CREDIT: ContactMusic.com
HEAVEN TOUR, RANDOM PHOTOGRAPHS
Rebecca posted these photographs on her Official Tumblr a few days ago. Enjoy!
HEAVEN TOUR, NEW THEATRE, OXFORD (24/02/2012)
‘TOO GOOD TO LOSE’ SINGLE OUT TODAY!
Rebecca’s second single ‘Too Good To Lose’ hits stores today across the UK!
REBECCA FERGUSON PLANNING DANCE TRACKS FOR NEW ALBUM
THE amazing Rebecca Ferguson plans to go up-tempo and record some dance tracks for her second album.
The single soul sensation told me: “I’ve looked at my schedule and this whole year is taken up with promoting Heaven.
“I wouldn’t have time for a boyfriend even if I wanted one.
“I’m going to America in May and then Japan and Australia.
“Then I want to spend all of next year writing the next album to release it in 2014.
“I’m really into dance at the moment so I want to throw in a few curve ball dance tracks and surprise people.”
Rebecca, who is in the middle of a sell-out UK tour, added: “I had a James Bond-like car chase this week. “Someone wanted an autograph and chased me all the way to my hotel. I should have been scared but I just laughed.”
Rebecca’s new single Too Good To Lose is out today.
2012 NEW NOW NEXT AWARDS
Rebecca has been nominated for the Brink of Fame: Music Artist Award in this year’s New Now Next Awards from Logo TV. Click here to vote!
TOO GOOD TO LOSE
HEAVEN
NOTHING'S REAL BUT LOVE