Joe Bonamassa's "Shake This Ground" - Publishing Royalties

This catalog is a single composition at the very start of its earning life, recorded by Joe Bonamassa, who has been filling theaters and arenas decades and shows no sign of stopping. He is in the middle of a European arena run through November 2026, with a nineteen-date US theater tour behind Breakthrough booked for February and March 2027.

“Shake This Ground” was released on February 28, 2025 as the first music made public from Breakthrough, Joe Bonamassa’s seventeenth studio album. The album arrived on July 18, 2025 and went to No. 1 on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart. That was the 29th time Bonamassa has topped that chart. It also reached the top ten in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria, and No. 38 in the UK.

One year of reporting exists, four distributions covering public performance through BMI, physical and download sales, streaming and satellite radio. Nearly all of what has arrived is domestic while the album’s strongest chart placements came from continental Europe. The asset is young. Bonamassa’s audience is not, built over a decades-long career with a touring calendar booked eighteen months out, and it is priced before the foreign income arrives.

Joe Bonamassa is a four-time Grammy-nominated guitarist, singer and bandleader, a fifteen-time Blues Music Award nominee and four-time winner, and the holder of the record for the most No. 1 albums in the history of Billboard’s Blues Albums chart. 

“Shake This Ground” was released as a standalone single on February 28, 2025, the first piece of music made public from Breakthrough. Produced by longtime collaborator Kevin Shirley, whose credits include Iron Maiden, The Black Crowes and Journey, the track was described at release as the moody, introspective side of an album recorded across Greece, Nashville and Los Angeles. Breakthrough became Bonamassa’s 29th No. 1 on the Blues Albums chart and placed inside the top ten in four European markets.