Reference song
The Hills by The Weeknd is included in the MRP Top Charted reference catalog. Billboard Year-End chart research: 2015 rank #10. Use this page as a research reference for music supervision across film, television, advertising, trailers, branded content and creative pitches. Inclusion is for discovery and research and does not imply that MRP or MFP controls or represents the recording or publishing rights.
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Licensing & clearance
Rights representation
Publishing and master information below is reference research and should be independently verified for the specific use, territory, term, and budget.
Publishing Representation
- Publisher / rightsholder
- Sony/ATV Ballad; Songs of Hear the Art c/o Sony/ATV Ballad; Sal and Co Inc. c/o WC Music Corp.; Connoisseur of Connisseurs c/o WC Music Corp.; Clearscore Music Ltd. c/o Kobalt Music Pub America Inc.; Hifi Music IP Issuer L.P. c/o Kobalt Music Pub America Inc.
- Administrator
- Research Required
- Share, when verified
- Research Required
- PRO
- Research Required
- Licensing / contact information
- Research Required
- Verification status
- Research Required
- Verification date
- Research Required
Master Representation
- Exact recording
- The Hills — The Weeknd (Beauty Behind The Madness, 2015; Qobuz track 26766148)
- Historical ℗ owner / credit
- Research Required
- Current ℗ metadata credit
- ℗ 2015 The Weeknd XO, Inc., Manufactured and Marketed by Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
- Master representation / control
- Research Required
- Master owner / rightsholder
- The Weeknd XO, Inc., Manufactured and Marketed by Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
- Record label
- The Weeknd/Lyric
- Distributor / administrator
- Research Required
- Master licensing / contact information
- Research Required
- ISRC, when verified
- Research Required
- Verification status
- Partially Verified
- Verification date
- 2026-09-05
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Request Licensing & Clearance- Genre
- R&B/Soul
- Era
- 2010s
- Categories
- Recognizable · Era-defining · Popular culture · Lifestyle · Advertising · Party/club scene · Fashion/lifestyle · Montage
- Writers (existing research data)
- Abel Tesfaye; Emmanuel Nickerson; Carlo Montagnese; Ahmad Balshe; additional sampled-work interests require repertoire confirmation
- Publishers (existing research data)
- RESEARCH REQUIRED — sample/underlying-work chain requires authoritative repertoire confirmation
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