Katharine McPhee 簽約 Sony - 美國偶像

在 Verve Forecast 發了兩張專輯之後，
Katharine 拜參與 NBC 音樂電視劇「Smash」之賜，
也與發行該劇原聲帶的 Columbia Records 簽下個人唱片約。

http://tinyurl.com/3cyd8ts

Columbia Records Teams With NBC For‘Smash’Music Albums, Inks Solo
Recording Deal With Co-Star Katharine McPhee

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 9, 2011 @ 3:10pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Following in the footsteps of Fox’s Glee, NBC has signed a deal
with Columbia Records for the soundtrack of the network’s new musical drama
series Smash. Additionally, Columbia has signed a solo recording pact with
Smash breakout star and American Idol alumna Katharine McPhee. I hear
Columbia, which also handles the soundtracks for Glee and the upcoming X
Factor, landed the rights to Smash after a bidding war. The deal, brokered by
NBCUniversal TV Consumer Products Group, gives Columbia Records worldwide,
digital and physical rights to the first season of Smash, with options to
subsequent seasons. It includes both original songs, written exclusively for
the TV series by the Tony Award-winning duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman,
and covers of hit songs featured on the show. “Our Columbia Records partners
will guide the soundtrack of Smash into a big component of the show’s
success,” said NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt. Added Rob Stringer, Chairman of
Columbia/Epic Label Group, “Music is at the heart of Smash, and with our
wonderfully creative broadcast partners, we will develop innovative
strategies to present this music to a huge audience.”

Smash, slated to air in midseason behind The Voice on Mondays, stars Debra
Messing, Christian Borle, McPhee and Anjelica Huston and follows the creation
of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. Playwright/screenwriter Theresa
Rebeck wrote the pilot and is executive producing the series with Steven
Spielberg (on whose idea the show is based), Craig Zadan & Neil Meron, Darryl
Frank & Justin Falvey, Shaiman & Wittman and David Marshall Grant. Following
her runner-up finish on American Idol in 2006, McPhee has released two
albums: a self-titled one in 2007, which premiered at the No. 2 spot on the
Billboard 200, and Unbroken in January 2010, which debuted at No. 27.


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