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| September 08, 2009 |
| Universal Music Acquires International Rights to Historic Sinatra Catalogue Titles Outside North America |
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 Plans are set for 40th anniversary edition of My Way album
Universal Music Group has acquired international catalogue rights to the timeless Reprise recordings of Frank Sinatra.
A new, long-term agreement between UMGI and Frank Sinatra Enterprises, a joint venture between the Sinatra family and Warner Music Group, will result in an extensive reissue programme to start later this year with the release of the 40th anniversary edition of the entertainer's career-defining My Way.
UMG companies around the world, except North America, will reissue all the original albums made by Frank Sinatra for his own Reprise Records: an extraordinary, multi-decade catalogue which includes such popular-culture milestones as "Strangers In The Night," "That's Life," "Theme >From New York, New York," "It Was A Very Good Year" and "My Way."
The agreement covers a total of 38 catalogue albums, plus select new releases, including the highly-prized Live At The Meadowlands, a landmark concert recorded in the singer's home state of New Jersey in 1986. In addition, Universal Music has secured the rights to distribute 14 audio visual programmes on DVD, including the Emmy Award-winning The Man And His Music television specials.
Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO, UMGI, said: "There's simply no one like Frank Sinatra. His music is one of the reasons I got into this business. Now we plan to bring it alive for a whole new generation of fans."
Starting in October, UMGI will begin the reissue programme with the 40th anniversary edition of the My Way album, which will include unreleased Sinatra recordings from the period. The title track was a worldwide hit in 1969, and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of "historical significance." The album, too, was hugely popular around the world: for example, it spent a year in the British charts.
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