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 […]
Photo Credit: Amazon Amazon Music expands its entire catalog of 100 million songs to Prime members in shuffle mode. Amazon Prime subscribers now have access to the entire Amazon Music catalog in shuffle mode and […]
Huey Lewis and The News performing live in 2016. Photo Credit: PaulHamaker Primary Wave has acquired the rights to the first seven studio albums from Huey Lewis and The News. New York City-headquartered Primary Wave, […]
Huey Lewis and the News have sold the majority of their catalog to Primary Wave Music for around $20 million, Variety reports. The deal includes all of the band’s music from inception through 1994, which includes […]
Photo Credit: Eva Rinaldi / CC by 2.0 Shamrock Capital, the media and entertainment investor that owns Taylor Swift’s masters, sells a minority stake in the firm. RidgeLake Partners, a strategic partnership between Ottawa Avenue […]
Photo Credit: Miami Film Festival / CC by 2.0 Fugees rapper Pras faces $6.5 million lawsuit over allegedly fraudulent catalog sale. A company called Open On Sunday has sued Pras and investment firm Harbourview over a rights […]
Photo Credit: Escobar Cigars Rapper and exec MC Serch (full name Michael Berrin) has revealed that he’s looking to sell his interest in Nas’ catalog. The 55-year-old 3rd Bass co-founder MC Serch, who served as […]
Beat Happening have announced remastered vinyl reissues of their entire catalog: 1985’s Beat Happening, 1988’s Jamboree, 1989’s Black Candy, 1991’s Dreamy, 1992’s You Turn Me On, and the 2003 rarities and B-sides compilation Music to […]
Beat Happening have announced remastered vinyl reissues of their entire catalog: 1985’s Beat Happening, 1988’s Jamboree, 1989’s Black Candy, 1991’s Dreamy, 1992’s You Turn Me On, and the 2003 rarities and B-sides compilation Music to […]
Pink Floyd performing live in 1973. Photo Credit: Erik Calonius More than five months have passed since Pink Floyd began pursuing a $500 million catalog sale, but the process – and the half-billion-dollar payday – […]
Pink Floyd have reportedly been shopping their back catalog for a potential half-a-billion dollar payday, but according to Variety, incendiary comments from co-founder Roger Waters in a recent interview with Rolling Stone could bring any hope […]
Photo Credit: Alexander Shatov Meta says it is opening its catalog of ‘free, high-quality songs’ to Reels advertisers on Instagram. Meta saw 30% more engagement with its Reels across both Facebook and Instagram in Q2 […]
(l to r) Starstruck Entertainment’s Narvel Blackstock, Influence execs Rene McLean and Lylette Pizarro, Blake Shelton, Influence higher-up Lynn Hazan, Warner Music Nashville CEO John Esposito, and WM Nashville co-president Ben Kline. Photo Credit: Influence […]