NASHVILLE |DATE: DECEMBER 12, 2011
ULTRA MUSIC, ULTRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHING
AND EMPIRE ARTIST MANAGEMENT
CONGRATULATE THEIR GRAMMY NOMINEES
Ultra Music, Ultra International Music Publishing and Empire Artist Management would like to congratulate their artists, writers and producers for their GRAMMY nominations—a total of 13 nominations in all. Winners will be revealed February 12, 2012. Best of luck to the Ultra and Empire nominees:
Ultra Music
Best Dance/Electronica Album: deadmau5, 4×4=12
Best Dance Recording: deadmau5, “Raise Your Weapon”
Best Remix: Benny Benassi, “Cinema (Skrillex Remix)”
Ultra International Music Publishing
Record Of The Year: Katy Perry, “Firework” (co-written by UIMP writer Sandy Vee)
Album Of The Year: Rihanna, Loud (features “Only Girl In The World” and “S&M” co-written by Sandy Vee)
Best Pop Solo Performance: Katy Perry, “Firework” (co-written by UIMP writer Sandy Vee)
Best Pop Vocal Album: Rihanna, Loud (features “Only Girl in the world” and “S&M” co-written by Sandy Vee)
Best Dance/Electronica Album: David Guetta, Nothing But The Beat (features “Where Them Girls At” co-written by Sandy Vee)
Best R&B Album: Chris Brown, F.A.M.E. (features “Beautiful People” co-written by Benassi/Benassi)
Best Reggae Album: Stephen Marley, Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life (features “False Friends” co-written by Andre Forrest)
Best Reggae Album: Shaggy, Summer in Kingston (co-written by Andre Fenell)
Best Remixed Recording: Leona Lewis, “Collide (Afrojack Remix),” Rihanna, “Only Girl In The World (Rosabel Club Mix)” and Benny Benassi, “Cinema (Skrillex Remix)”
Empire Artist Management
Record of The Year: Katy Perry, “Firework” (co-written by UIMP writer Sandy Vee)
Album Of The Year: Rihanna, Loud (feat. “Only Girl in the world” and “S&M” co-written by Sandy Vee)
Best Dance/Electronica Album: David Guetta, Nothing But The Beat (features “Where Them Girls At” co-written by Sandy Vee)
About Ultra Music
Ultra Music is an American independent electronic music record label based in New York City. Ultra’s current roster includes deadmau5, Benny Benassi, Kaskade, Wolfgang Gartner, The Bloody Beetroots, Steve Aoki, Lil Jon, Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Ferry Corsten, Alex Gaudino, Congorock, Adrian Lux, Fedde Le Grand, Axwell, TOKiMonsta, Alexandra Stan and others. Ultra has featured releases from the aforementioned artists and many others including Tiësto, Avicii, Paul van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, The Crystal Method, Sasha & John Digweed, and others. Ultra Music boasts one of the most successful channels on YouTube with over 600k subscribers and nearly 1.5 billion views. www.ultrarecords.com
About Ultra International Music Publishing
Ultra International Music Publishing, LLC is a growing independent music publisher based in NYC. As the publishing arm of Ultra Music, Ultra Publishing represents top songwriters, producers & artists from around the globe with songs spanning catalogs of the biggest stars in their respective genres, such as Pop (Katy Perry, Rihanna, Britney Spears), Rap (Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Ludacris), Dance (David Guetta, Kaskade), R&B/Soul (Keyshia Cole, India.Arie), Reggae/Dancehall (Shaggy, Busy Signal) and more. Ultra Publishing boasts one of the more dominant catalogs in the forum of US radio airplay, continually placing Top 10 amongst all US publishers in airplay performance market share over the last several quarters per Billboard US. Smash hit compositions in 2011 included “Firework” by Katy Perry, “S&M” by Rihanna, “On the Floor” by Jennifer Lopez, “Stereo Love” by Edward Maya and “Mr. Saxobeat” by Alexandra Stan.
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For media inquiries, please contact
Jessica Risling-Sholl, 323.391.2904, jessica@ultrarecords.com
For media inquiries regarding deadmau5, contact:
Alexandra Greenberg/MSO 818.380.0400 x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
