Warner Chappell Music Signs Sam Hales: Exclusive

BRISBANE, Australia — Sam Hales is the latest signing to Warner Chappell Music, striking a planetary woody with the euphony publishing giant.

With the caller arrangement, the celebrated Australian songwriter’s full catalogue and aboriginal works volition beryllium represented by Warner Chappell, Billboard.com can exclusively reveal.

“I americium thrilled to invited Sam Hales to our planetary roster of songwriters and producers astatine Warner Chappell,” comments Dan Rosen, president of Warner Music Australasia, successful a statement. “Sam is an exceptional endowment with a planetary vision. His songwriting has not lone shaped the Australian euphony scenery but continues to marque an interaction connected a planetary scale. At Warner Chappell Music, we’re excited to enactment the adjacent section of Sam’s originative journey.”

Hales is simply a engaged man. He’s the vocalist, guitarist and superior songwriter of Brisbane indie set The Jungle Giants, whose 4th and astir caller album, Love Signs, opened astatine No. 1 connected the ARIA Chart pursuing its merchandise successful July 2021.

His co-writing credits see tracks with Australian Music Prize winners Hermitude and Mexican breakout prima RENEE, and remix collaborations with the likes of Odd Mob, Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, Chromeo and Tom Trago. Also, Hales precocious produced the pb azygous for Love Fame Tragedy, the solo task of The Wombats’ Matthew Murphy.

Hales was a regular contributor to Confidence Man, leaving the electro-pop enactment immoderate two-and-a-half years ago. The caller woody is understood to screen his works with ConMan for Australia and New Zealand only.

“Sam is simply a phenomenal songwriter. His quality to trade songs that consciousness some profoundly idiosyncratic and universally anthemic is rare,” adds John Halstead, elder A&R manager astatine Warner Chappell Music Australia. “We’re arrogant to invited him to Warner Chappell and excited to assistance instrumentality his euphony to adjacent greater planetary heights.”

On signing with the euphony publisher, Hales says the timing couldn’t beryllium amended to “delve into much planetary co-writing. This has been a imagination of excavation for years, and the squad couldn’t beryllium much perfect.”

The publishing pact has a beardown absorption connected the future, explains Stu McCullough, manager, Amplifire Music, and leans into much co-writing and producing opportunities for the talented creative. “We person waited for good implicit a decennary to bash a publishing woody for Sam and it feels similar the close clip and close squad to instrumentality this adjacent measurement successful Sam’s career,” helium tells Billboard. “We are each excited astatine the possibilities up of us.”

The Warner Chappell woody caps an eventful twelvemonth for Hales, who was hospitalized successful March pursuing a centrifugal accident. That didn’t forestall him from hitting the roadworthy with The Jungle Giants for the nationalist Hold My Hand tour, successful enactment of the January merchandise “Hold My Hand,” their archetypal successful much than a year.