Hipgnosis Songs Fund In The News

From Universal’s stake in Chord Music to Live Nation’s biggest year ever… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

3 observations on… Universal Music Group’s $240m bet on Chord Music (and the real story, Dundee Partners)

Looking underneath the hood of today's big story in the music business

From Warner’s best-ever quarter to Spotify’s $9bn payout to the music industry… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

Hipgnosis Songs Fund shareholders vote in favor of giving £20m ‘bung’ to bidders on its catalog

Decision could result in multiple companies each being paid £20 million by UK-listed fund

Downtown, Hipgnosis and NMPA rally behind Universal Music Group in its fight with TikTok

Andrew Bergman, David Israelite, Merck Mercuriadis all publicly support UMG's position

Merck Mercuriadis to exit CEO role at Hipgnosis Song Management, becoming Chairman; Ben Katovsky promoted to Chief Executive of company

HSM, which has approximately $3 billion-worth of assets under management, counts Blackstone as a majority investor

Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s Chairman is determined to abolish Merck Mercuriadis’ ‘call option’. He was less bothered when Round Hill Music Royalty Fund’s investment manager had a near-identical clause.

A tale of two call options...

Former Hipgnosis exec Tom Stingemore launches new platform, ALLOY, to streamline sync licensing

“Sync is arguably the last area of the music industry to be modernized,” Tom Stingemore says