Roba Music Publishing House
| Roba Music Verlag GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1969 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | Rolf Baierle, managing partner |
| Branch | Music industry |
| Website | http://www.roba.com |
The Roba Music Publishing is an independent German music publisher . The company was founded by Rolf Baierle in Hamburg in 1969 and is active worldwide with foreign representatives.
The company acquired several German and international music publishers. For example, the former state- owned music publisher Lied der Zeit , which acquired the rights to almost all of the GDR's entertainment songs . Among them were well-known melodies such as the melody of Our Sandman and a large part of the repertoire of the GDR hit star Frank Schöbel . In addition, the European Publishing Company was taken over, which represents a large number of well-known German hit melodies.
Evergreen songs such as YMCA or Go West , represented by Roba music publishers , can be found in GEMA's annual top lists and are therefore among the most frequently played works in Germany.
In addition, a large number of German film productions use the rights of the Roba music publishers. For example, for recordings in Downward , The Venus Trap , Caipiranha, The Little Polar Bear , Good Bye, Lenin! and Bang Boom Bang .
Well-known authors, works and performers whose titles and a. be represented by Roba Music Verlag:
- Madonna
- black Eyed Peas
- pink
- Elvis Presley
- Sean Paul
- Fugees
- Village People
- Celine Dion
- Anastacia
- Aretha Franklin
- Mary J. Blige
- Jessica Simpson
- Donna Summer
- Luther Vandross
- Janet Jackson
- Tokio Hotel
- Udo Lindenberg
- Münchener Freiheit
- Howard Carpendale
- The flippers
- Pouya Saraei
Cooperation with Imagem
In April 2008, the publishing group took over the exploitation of the publishing rights from the former catalogs of Zomba UK / US, Rondor UK, 19 Music / Songs and BBC Music for Germany through Imagem-Musikverlag .
With the conclusion of the contract, Roba now represents u. a. the song rights of:
Justin Timberlake , Linkin Park , R. Kelly , Britney Spears , Backstreet Boys , * NSYNC , Nas , Ne-Yo , Shania Twain , Mutt Lange ( Bryan Adams , Celine Dion ), Iron Maiden , Billy Ocean , Daft Punk , Korn and Macy Gray .
This also includes the compositions of the Kaiser Chiefs , Sophie Ellis Bextor , William Orbit (Madonna), Leo Sayer , Nik Kershaw , Hammond & Hazlewood as well as famous TV anthems such as the American Idol fanfare.