KKR In The News

From the rise of the investment giants to Adele’s return: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter

Here. Come. The. Giants.

Blackstone x Hipgnosis; KKR; Apollo Global Management. They're all in.

BMG buys bundle of Tina Turner rights in music’s latest big-money deal

Deal includes artist’s share of her recordings, plus Turner's music publishing writer’s share

BMG revenues up 9% in first half of 2021… and it has over $1bn of acquisition deals in play with KKR

Recordings revenues were up 29.4% on the same period last year, says Hartwig Masuch

Music catalog sales are reaching an all time high. So how will AI music catalogs fit into this new matrix and what is their value?

Rory Kenny, co-founder & CEO at Loudly examines the status of music catalogs today....

Epidemic Sound Chairwoman Vania Schlogel joins Hipgnosis board as Non-Exec Director

Former KKR executive and founder of Atwater Capital previously sat on the board of BMG

KKR-backed Artlist joins independent music publishers’ agency IMPEL

Artlist is a creative technology company that provides video creators with over half a million digital assets

Is a reckoning coming to the way collection societies spend songwriters’ money?

Stat Of The Week: Why new data from PRS For Music and GEMA may raise alarm on Wall Street