John and Julie Fogerty. Photo Credit: Kyle Spicer After an array of companies scooped up high-profile song rights during 2022, Creedence Clearwater Revival founder John Fogerty has flipped the script by purchasing a majority interest […]
Dr. Dre — reportedly worth an estimated $820 million — might soon inch closer to becoming a bonafide billionaire. The pioneering N.W.A. rapper and self-made entertainment mogul is selling an assortment of music income streams […]
Dr. Dre’s seminal The Chronic: is it part of this juicy deal? Dr. Dre has reportedly sold a sizable chunk of his music rights — at a juicy multiple — to Shamrock Holdings and Universal […]
Dr. Dre is reportedly headed toward a huge payday. According to Billboard, the 57-year-old hip-hop mogul is preparing to sell a portion of his music assets for more than $200 million. Sources say the assets generate about $1 […]
Photo Credit: Zhang Kaiyv Apple has launched a catalog of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may bring the beginning of the end of human narrators. Apple has quietly released a catalog of […]
De La Soul has announced that after years of legal battles, the group will finally make its entire catalog available on streaming services. The announcement comes after the New York trio finally resolved their decades-long […]
De La Soul’s entire catalog will be available on all streaming platforms and digital retailers for the first time beginning March 3rd, 2023. Due to sample clearance issues and label disputes with Warner Bros. Records […]
Seoul, South Korea. Photo Credit: Mathew Schwartz Beyond Music has officially purchased the catalog of veteran producer and songwriter Greg Wells, who’s worked with Adele, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Quincy Jones, and a number of […]
Photo Credit: Peterboropetes / CC by 4.0 Beyond Music has announced it has acquired the music catalog of Canadian producer and songwriter Greg Wells. Wells has produced and written songs for Adele, Taylor Swift, John […]
Justin Bieber is about to get a massive holiday bonus … and he’s already spending some of the money that’s seemingly coming his way. The singer and his wife Hailey splurged on Thursday, going shopping […]
Photo Credit: Crocs Hipgnosis is reportedly closing in on an approximately $200 million deal for the publishing and recorded catalogs of Justin Bieber. Rumblings of this latest song-rights play from Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Song Management and […]
Peter Frampton. Photo Credit: BMG BMG has officially acquired the “music interests” of “Show Me the Way” vocalist, songwriter, and producer Peter Frampton as part of a far-reaching deal. Bertelsmann’s BMG unveiled its agreement with […]
Photo Credit: Hipgnosis Songs Fund Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF), the publicly traded entity that’s spent billions on music IP, hasn’t materially lowered its catalog valuation despite suffering a stock-price decline throughout the past 12 months. […]
Photo Credit: WMG BMG has announced it has acquired the catalog of singer-songwriter Chris Rea. His evergreen “Driving Home for Christmas” track is a hit yet again, sitting in the Top 10 Spotify charts in […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify expands audiobooks into the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, with a catalog of more than 300,000 titles. Spotify users in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, can now purchase […]
Earlier this month, Domain Capital announced that it had obtained $700 million in “equity commitments” for an entertainment fund. Now, the company has purchased Iggy Azalea’s catalog “for an eight-figure sum,” according to the 32-year-old artist. […]
Whitney Houston performing live in 2010. Photo Credit: Egghead06 About five weeks after selling “a significant minority interest” to Brookfield Asset Management as part of a wider $2 billion partnership, Primary Wave has acquired a […]
No word on Pink Floyd’s $500 million catalog deal — though Roger Waters just released a ‘dark version’ of ‘Comfortably Numb.’ Sony Music released Roger Waters’ “Comfortably Numb 2022,” available today on all streaming platforms. […]
photo Credit: Neil Krug (Warner Chappell Music) Warner Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, has signed Scissor Sisters’ complete catalog. If you’ve been to a club in the last 20 years, […]
Nick Mason and David Gilmour performing live. Photo Credit: anyonlinyr More than six months back, reports suggested that Pink Floyd was preparing to sell its catalog in a more than half-billion-dollar deal. But an agreement […]