Founded in 1980 with an initial investment of just $20,000, Boulder, Colorado based, Spring Hill Music, is currently one of the leading adult-oriented independent record labels in the U.S., with Billboard chart-topping sales, a worldwide reputation, and a 2004 Grammy® nomination among its accomplishments.
The goal of Spring Hill Music, a leader in both the lifestyle classical and new age/adult oriented instrumental genres, is to provide mainstream, global, non-pop audiences with unique, high-quality,and aesthetically unique recordings that spring from a well of innovation and authenticity. The company’s descriptive brand slogan is “body, mind and soul music.”
Among the label’s leading artists is Don Campbell, the world’s most renowned authority on the transformational power of music and author of the best-selling book The Mozart Effect®. Campbell’s Music for The Mozart Effect® recordings, have sold more than 600,000 units, helping make him Billboard magazine’s No. 3 best-selling classical artist and a frequent component of Billboards Top Classical Catalog chart.
Campell’s first three albums of specially selected and sequenced classical albums were the initial releases in Spring Hill’s now acclaimed Books & Music series. Consisting of music albums co-branded and co-marketed with major hardcover books, with this series Spring Hill has carved out a leadership position in the niche, with over a dozen titles and links with publishers including HarperCollins, Random House, and Penguin Putnam.
Other well-established Spring Hill artists include best-selling authors Margot Anand, Joan Borysenko, and Michael J. Gelb, and musicians Michael Hoppé, Golana, and Robert Gass, the founder of Spring Hill Music, whose best-selling pioneering chant recording Om Namaha Shivaya now ranks among a handful of New Age classics with nearly 300,000 units sold.