2000
In 2001 after attempts to capture Avril Lavigne's sound, Arista A&R head Josh Saurbin reached out to the production & writing team of Curt Frasca and Sabelle Breer (Madonna, Ryan Cabrera, Stacie Orrico) to help with the album. Avril Lavigne's debut record Let Go, would go on to sell 18 million albums worldwide and garner 3 Grammy Award nominations. 2002 Curt & Sabelle discovered and signed artist Ryan Cabrera producing and co-writing much of his multi-platinum debut release Take It All Away, which debut on at number eight on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album included the Top 40 hits "On The Way Down" and "40 Kinds of Sadness". The single "On the Way Down" went double platinum and received an ASCAP Pop Award for most airplay of 2006. Curt wrote "Warm Whispers" with the great Missy Higgins for the album On A Clear Night. The album entered the charts at #1. Performed at Live Earth 2007 Founded Verse Music Publishing in 2006 with Sabelle Breer.
In 2009 Verse Music Publishing raised $200 million dollars in private equity to acquire entertainment assets.
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