Hipgnosis has revealed a nearly $1.5 billion asset-backed securitization (ABS). Photo Credit: Hipgnosis Another day, yet another asset-backed securitization – this time from Blackstone’s Hipgnosis, which has formally announced a $1.47 billion deal. The appropriate […]
Hipgnosis, the venture-capitalist upstart that in recent years acquired the catalogs of Leonard Cohen, Justin Bieber, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many others, has sold its assets to Blackstone for $1.6 billion, The New […]
Six years and many twists later, what’s going on with Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF), the Merck Mercuriadis-founded company that owns 138 high-profile catalogs? The question is front of mind in industry circles now that Hipgnosis, […]
Only at the end of our interview does it dawn on both of us that Anton Corbijn has been sitting in front of his huge vinyl record collection at his home in Amsterdam the whole […]
Photo Credit: Ian Dury / CC by 3.0 Rod Stewart has called off his catalog acquisition talks with Hipgnosis Songs after a lengthy negotiation process. Steward will now take his ball home and retain ownership […]
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / CC by 2.0 Hipgnosis Songs Capital snags a portion of David Foster’s songwriting IP: 100% of his writer’s share of performance income for all 500+ of his songs. Celebrated songwriter […]
Photo Credit: Fausto Sandoval Reactional Music has reached an agreement with Hipgnosis Song Management. Here’s the latest. Reactional Music’s patented technology allows any music to be brought into a game—with the entire game reacting live […]
Photo Credit: Stephen McCarthy / Collision / CC by 2.0 Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM) has inked a partnership deal with Beatclub and invested in the Timbaland-founded platform. London-based Hipgnosis Song Management (the “investment adviser” of […]
Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM) has officially acquired the rights to “around 40 songs” that Tobias Jesso Jr. penned between 2015 and 2020. An exec from London-headquartered Hipgnosis Song Management reached out to Digital Music News […]
Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun. Photo Credit: Lou Stejskal Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM) has officially acquired Justin Bieber’s catalog, including the 28-year-old’s publishing and recorded interests. Blackstone-powered Hipgnosis Song Management reached out to Digital Music […]
Photo Credit: Hipgnosis Songs Fund Hipgnosis stock (SONG on the London Stock Exchange) has suffered an approximately 32 percent valuation falloff since 2022’s beginning. But the high-profile entity’s market cap remains above £1 billion, and […]
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 […]
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. […]
Despite beginning a long-anticipated share-buyback program about three weeks ago, Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LON: SONG) has a market cap of about £1.04 billion (currently $1.18 billion) – well beneath the value assigned to its song […]
Photo Credit: Hipgnosis Songs Fund Hipgnosis Songs Fund is now repurchasing its own shares as its stock valuation plunges to almost half of what the company said its catalogs were worth. The situation at Hipgnosis […]
Photo Credit: James Yarema Music-integration company Songclip, which, as its name suggests, specializes in equipping apps with song clips, has officially unveiled a partnership agreement with Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM). Songclip and HSM – the […]
Photo Credit: David Vincent Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LON: SONG) shares have dipped to a record-low price, but some investors appear relatively upbeat about the entity’s path forward following a $700 million refinancing. During Tuesday’s market […]
Nearly three months after signaling that it was “in the process of a review of its leverage structure with a view to reducing interest rate risk and control costs,” Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LON: SONG) has […]
After two less-than-positive assessments of Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s long-term outlook entered the media spotlight earlier this month, the price of the entity’s stock (LON: SONG) touched a 2022 low. But according to an analysis from […]
Last week, a blunt assessment of Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LON: SONG) indicated that the entity had “burned through its funds” and become “unable to raise more” capital. Now, a new report, once again from the […]