John Rich, writer and co-writer of such Reservoir catalog hits as “Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy” (Big & Rich), “We Got It Going On” (Bon Jovi), and “I Play Chicken With The Train” (Cowboy Troy), spoke to Larry King about the moment he discovered Gretchen Wilson. On […]
Cruel Summer, the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album featuring three tracks with Reservoir songwriter 2 Chainz, was released on September 18th and, as of the morning of the 24th, is the #1 album in the U.S. iTunes store. The album features all of the major players from Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music rap […]
“Bad Girls,” the hit penned for M.I.A. by Reservoir writer Danja, made a primetime appearance last night in the premiere episode of Fox’s new series, The Mindy Project. This comes after notable “Bad Girls” placements in the hit summer movie Step Up Revolution and the Oxygen network’s Bad Girls Club promotional spots. The Mindy […]
Big & Rich‘s “Comin’ To Your City” has been selected to kick off college football season on ESPN. The energetic country-rock track will appear in ESPN’s College Game Day, a series of promotional spots running before each college football game. ESPN comissioned a College Game Day version of […]
Variety Magazine called on Reservoir Executive Vice President Rell Lafargue to weigh in on “Gold Bars in Rap Music,” the magazine’s recent piece exploring the complicated nature of collaborations in rap. The piece ran both in Variety’s online magazine and in their physical Emmy issue. The feature dove right into […]
Reservoir is proud to announce the acquisition of leading U.K.-based independent music publisher, Reverb Music. The deal covers the entire Reverb operation, including its catalog of over 30,000 copyrights and agreements with over one hundred songwriters. Reservoir President Golnar Khosrowshahi confirmed that Reverb Managing Director, Annette Barrett, will […]
Awards have been kind to 2 Chainz this season. Following an outstanding performance on the MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper has been nominated for no fewer than thirteen BET Hip-Hop Awards. His number of nominations is second only to Kanye West’s. Toronto-born rapper Drake follows Chainz at 11 nominations. […]
The music video for “Bad Girls,” the exotic urban-pop track written by Reservoir songwriter-producer Danja and performed by British rapper-singer M.I.A., secured two wins at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards. The video won in the Best Cinematography and Best Direction categories. Reservoir congratulates both Danja and M.I.A. for […]
2 Chainz is confirmed to perform at this year’s Video Music Awards, airing on MTV Thursday, 9/6. It was announced last week that 2 Chainz would present an award at the ceremony, and previously that he would vie for 2 awards himself. Then, just today, it was confirmed by MTV that […]
The track listing for Cruel Summer, the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album spearheaded by rapper Kanye West, was released over the weekend to reveal twelve new and current songs. Reservoir songwriter 2 Chainz appears on three of the album’s compositions: the previously-released single “Mercy” with West, Big Sean, and Pusha […]