EMI Christian Music Publishing and Lilly Mack Announce Groundbreaking Partnership

Inglewood, Calif. based Lilly Mack Publishing’s catalog is comprised of more than 800 songs written by some of gospel music’s premier artists and writers. Kirk Franklin, who has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide (Fight of My Life, released last month, hit the Billboard Top 200 chart at #33 and scanned 75,000 units) will star in the upcoming Lions Gate film, “Church Boy,” gospel writers and artists Byron Cage, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Hezekiah Walker, Myron Butler, Kurt Carr, Carnell Murrell and Trin-i-tee 5:7 are among Lilly Mack’s stellar roster. The company, founded and led by Vicki Mack-Lataillade and Claude Lataillade, has 15-plus years of A&R and publishing experience in the gospel and urban market.

Church Boy is projected to debut in theatres nationwide in 2008 and includes several songs by Kirk Franklin from the Lilly Mack catalogue.

Lilly Mack Publishing is having one of its best years in 2007. Its writers have received multiple nominations and awards at the Grammy, Stellar, Dove, BET and NAACP Image Awards, highlighted by Franklin’s song Imagine Me, which won the first Grammy ever presented for Best Gospel Song at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The publishing company has had numerous #1 Billboard gospel chart-topping songs and landed tunes in several major theatrical releases and television shows, including “Any Given Sunday,” “Kingdom Come,” “The Gospel,” “American Idol,” “The Parkers,” “Sister Sister”, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” BET’s Sunday’s Best,” and many more.

“I’m proud of what Lilly Mack has accomplished and believe we are still a growing company with tremendous potential. This was a perfect moment in our company’s history to find a partner in EMI CMG Publishing that will understand our writers and their music and will help them to flourish in the years ahead,” said Mack Lataillade who will continue to be the new partnership’s creative envoy to the gospel industry.

In addition to the administration and exploitation of the existing catalog worldwide and new writer signings, a major focus of the partnership will be introducing Lilly Mack songs to the broader church community and onto the CCLI charts representing the church’s most sung songs. EMI CMG Publishing has had great success in recent years with 4 of the top 6 songs currently sung in North American churches, and two more in the top ten. The partnership will work closely with EMI CMG’s WorshipTogether.com in an effort to make churches around the world aware of Lilly Mack’s extensive catalog of worship songs. EMI CMG also plans to further maximize the value of Lilly Mack’s catalogue by producing and marketing sheet music, songbooks, method books for voice and musical instruments and other print music products.