LONDON: The Board of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited and its Investment Adviser, The Family (Music) Limited, have acquired a music catalogue from Brittany Hazzard, aka Starrah, an American songwriter, producer and singer whose songs have achieved 94 Number 1, 199 Top 5 and 277 Top 10 Chart positions globally.[the_ad id=”31605″]Starrah co-wrote Camila Cabello’s ‘Havana’ which is the IFPI global Number 1 Song of 2018. The song, together with the subsequent remix version with Spanish lyrics from Daddy Yankee, reached Number 1 in 95 countries, rocketing Camila Cabello’s global solo-success. In June 2018, Havana became Spotify’s most-streamed song ever by a solo female artist, with 888 million streams. Across all providers, it has now been streamed over 2.6 billion times globally and was globally the best-selling digital single of 2018.
In addition, the catalogue includes Maroon 5’s ‘Girls Like You’ which was Number 1 in the US Billboard Hot 100. ‘Girls Like You’ spent 33 weeks in the Top 10 in the US and reached Number 1 in 11 countries, including Canada and New Zealand. The song was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
Starrah also wrote five songs for Calvin Harris’ UK Number 2 album ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1’, including the UK Number 1 single “Feels” featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean, and three songs for Travis Scott’s US Number 1 album ‘Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight’, including the US two times platinum single ‘Pick Up The Phone’ featuring Young Thug and Quavo.
The catalogue includes a total of 14 US singles that have reached the Top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100 including Rihanna’s ‘Needed Me’; Drake’s ‘Fake Love’; Halsey’s ‘Now or Never’; and Nicki Minaj’s ‘No Frauds’.