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Houses of the Holy

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 […]

Rod Stewart Calls Off Hipgnosis Catalog Acquisition After 2 Years

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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 […]

Hipgnosis Songs Capital Snags a Portion of David Foster’s Songwriting IP

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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 […]

Hipgnosis Strikes Partnership with Reactional Music for Gaming

Hipgnosis Reactional Music partnership for gaming

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 […]

Hipgnosis Partners With and Invests In Timbaland’s Beatclub

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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 Scores Tobias Jesso Jr. Catalog Deal

Hipgnosis Acquires Sam Hollander's Music Catalog

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 […]

Hipgnosis Song Management Buys Entire Justin Bieber Catalog

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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 […]

Hipgnosis Stock Fell By 32% In 2022 Amid Broader Market Slump

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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 […]

Justin Bieber Reportedly Nears $200MM Hipgnosis Catalog Sale

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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 […]

Hipgnosis Refuses to Lower Catalog Valuation As Stock Price Dips

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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. […]

Songclip Announces Partnership Agreement With Hipgnosis

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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 […]

Pink Floyd Catalog Draws Hipgnosis Bid, Price Tag Still At $500MM

Pink Floyd Receives New Catalog Offer Following Bids From BMG, WMG

Nick Mason and David Gilmour performing live. Photo Credit: anyonlinyr Blackstone-powered Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM) is reportedly vying to strike a roughly $500 million deal for the catalog of Pink Floyd. Multiple outlets are reporting […]