{"id":57076,"date":"2019-01-30T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=57076"},"modified":"2019-01-30T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:43:45","slug":"hipgnosis-songs-buys-music-catalog-of-santanas-smooth-co-writer-itaal-shur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/hipgnosis-songs-buys-music-catalog-of-santanas-smooth-co-writer-itaal-shur\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipgnosis Songs buys music catalog of Santana’s Smooth co-writer Itaal Shur"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been exactly 27 days since Hipgnosis Songs Fund last announced a catalog acquisition<\/a> – and today (January 30) it adds another one to its growing list of purchases.<\/p>\n

The publicly-traded UK company, set up by music industry veteran\u00a0Merck Mercuriadis, has acquired a music catalog from Itaal Shur – including\u00a0the gigantic hit Smooth, co-written with Rob Thomas and performed by Santana.<\/p>\n

Shur’s catalog comprises 209 songs in total, which also includes the US Top 10 song Ascension by Maxwell.<\/p>\n

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Hipgnosis has acquired a 100% interest in the catalog including the BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) share.<\/p>\n

Smooth became a chart-topping hit in 1999, spending 12 consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n

The song then stayed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of 30 weeks and, in 2018, Billboard ranked it as the second most successful song of all time.<\/p>\n

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