He writes the songs
BMI winner Tranter boasts six in the Top 40
JUSTIN Tranter is fast becoming a oneman Holland-Dozier-Holland — the trio who penned some of Motown’s biggest hits, including “Stop! In the Name of Love” and “I Can’t Help Myself.”
Tranter’s publisher, Warner/Chappell, tells On the Money that he was behind six songs in the Top 40 last week, according to Mediabase, which tracks top radio station plays in the US and Canada — a stunning achievement.
Tranter, an LGBT advocate, penned songs including “Bad Liar,” by Selena Gomez (pictured); “Believer,” by Imagine Dragons; “Heavy,” by Linkin Park featuring Kiara; “Issues” by Julia Michaels; “Cold” by Maroon 5; and “Kissing Strangers” by DNCE featuring Nicki Minaj.
The songwriter, who was in Hawaii last week, won BMI’s pop songwriter of the year award earlier this month. On the Money asked him if his dreams were fulfilled and he told us: “There is always a part of me that feels like a glam rocker who was dropped from four record deals, but right now I’m feeling pretty damn joyful that I got to be a part of songs the whole world heard.”
Tranter was a member of the glam rock band “Semi Precious Weapons,” and went on to cowrite with Julia Michaels songs such as Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” and Gomez’s “Good for You.”
BMI also named Warner/Chappell publisher of the year.
Fuse lit
Jennifer Lopez- backed NuvoTV, which bought a majority stake in music network Fuse in 2014 for $226 million, is finally moving out of its 11 Penn Plaza location.
Last week, contractors removed the network’s familiar blue logo. The sign had been atop the $7 million street-level studio since 2006. We hear AMC Networks now has the lease on the space.
The music network tells us not to worry, they’re not going far. Fuse is moving around the corner to One Penn Plaza, where the network will build new studio space.
Jenny from the block was named chief creative officer of NuvoTV back in 2014, when the firm beat out her former flame Diddy to acquire the stake in the channel (though there’s been little news on her involvement in the music network since then).
Mas Vegas
Theatrical producer Adam Steck learned five years ago that what happens in Vegass doesn’t have to stay in Vegas.
His “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” opened at the Strip’s MGM Grand, starring The Baddest Man on the Planet in a one-ne-man show.
Three months later, with a directorial assist from Spike Lee, “Undisputed” had a Broadway run.
Steck is going the other direction with his “Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man.”
The raunchy comedy has been an offBroadway staple since early 2014.
But Steck knew it was better suited to Vegas immediately upon seeing it. “People in New York like to think; Vegas is much more about feeling,” the native of Bayside told our Richard Morgan. Steck’s version of “Sex Tips” opens at the Paris Las Vegas on June 8 starring Kendra Wilkinson of “The Girls Next Door” and Jai Rodriguez of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” But then it’s back to “Tyson,” which will be the title of the one-man sequel, followed by a “III” or a “2.” (Stent hasn’t decided if the numeral will be Roman or Arabic.) The show, which resumes telling the life of Iron Mike aafter his last fight, will debut in Vegas in September. “Believe it or not, these stories are even crazier than those in ‘Undisputed,’ ” Steck says. That suggests it’s not likely to stay in Vegas, either.
It’sI not like that
Uh-oh! Recall that tweet. Sports Business Journal, the well-respected sports industry bible, sent out a tweet congratulating talent agency CAA for both winning one of its annual awards for “best talent representation” — and for sponsoring the publication’s “World Congress of Sports” event. The magazine, realizing how it might appear that CAA was being rewarded for its sponsorship, promptly apologized for the “poorly worded and inappropriate tweet,” sent out onon Wednesday night. “Award winners are chosen solely by independent judges, and any suggestion otherwise is grossly inaccurate, in poor taste and an error in judgment,” it said.