Alice in Chains members Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Inez and William DuVall have sold their catalogs with the band to Round Hill Music, a rep for the company has confirmed. Terms of the deal …
, ten made the cut by selling copyrights. Alice In Chains’ haul falls in the same range as the sums received by acts from Blake Shelton to Shakira to ZZ Top .
Formed in Seattle by Cantrell and Kinney in 1987, Alice in Chains arose during the “grunge” era of the early 1990s but were always slightly separate from that scene. Their music often had more in common with classic rock than the punk and indie sounds that influenced grunge, and album radio embraced them immediately.
While the group’s often-dark and aggressive music may not seem like a natural fit for such common sync uses as advertisements, six of its releases reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart — two, the “Jar of Flies” EP and the self-titled album, reached No. 1 — and all of the group’s core albums have been certified multiplatinum. Also, the group’s songs helped form the musical backdrop for their generation.
“With such a dedicated following and an enduring catalog, there is tons of upside potential for licensing across film, TV and videos games,” says Jordan Passman, founder and CEO of Score a Score, a music production and licensing company.
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