GoDigital Music-owned Cinq Music wants to help more African artists break worldwide – and it’s working with Afrobeats artist and label boss D’Banj to do it.
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Hallowed be thy name rights! Pophouse reveals Iron Maiden partnership
British rock veterans Iron Maiden have become the latest artist to strike a wide-ranging rights deal with Swedish company Pophouse, joining Kiss, Cyndi Lauper, Swedish House Mafia and the late Tina Turner and Avicii in its portfolio.
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Multiples ‘have stabilised around 12-17x on iconic catalogues’
What’s been happening to the music catalogue-sales market in the last couple of years? Philippe Astor has been crunching the numbers.
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Exceleration Music and NexTone buy Ryuichi Sakamoto catalogues
Ryuichi Sakamoto died in 2023, but remains an icon well beyond his homeland of Japan. Now his recordings and publishing catalogues are being acquired by Exceleration Music and NexTone. The […]
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Firebird Music reveals $750m fund for catalogue acquisitions
Firebird Music Holdings has a new $750m fund for acquiring music catalogues, following its investments in management firms and labels.
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Duetti expands with acquisitions of newer tracks and remix program
Duetti’s business providing funding for independent musicians is well established, but now it is expanding its horizons in two ways. First, it is lowering its “acquisision age threshold” for recordings. […]
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Sony Music completes big-bucks Recognition Music Group deal
As rumoured, Sony Music Publishing is acquiring the complete catalogue of Recognition Music Group (RMG) – the company formerly known as three different Hipgnosis entities. The deal covers rights to more […]
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WMG and Bain Capital splash $300m on Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue
Warner Music Group clearly realised it didn’t want to be miser when it came to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ recordings. The major’s joint-venture with Bain Capital has reportedly splashed […]
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Primary Wave’s latest fund to buy music rights reaches $2.23bn
Remember the flurry of speculation that the catalogue-sales boom was about to pop – or at least deflate? A series of announcements this year on big raises for catalogue buyers suggests […]
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Chapter Two adds clients for Baltazar AI rights-analysis tool
Outside the GenAI-music arguments, there are plenty of other opportunities for AI technologies to be used positively by the music industry. For example, in the world of catalogue sales and […]
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New & used: the majors’ pivot away from new music (guest column)
Guest column: Music Ally publishes guest columns voicing the opinions of notable authors, or advancing specific perspectives on important issues. These are chosen at the Editorial team’s discretion, are not […]
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Simply Divest: Pophouse buys majority stake in Tina Turner catalogue
Swedish firm Pophouse is best known as one of the founding investors in ABBA Voyage, and as a buyer of music rights – for example its acquisition of rock band Kiss’s […]
