KKR In The News

Universal Music buys $240m stake in Chord Music Partners

The transaction will see KKR sell its majority stake in Chord to current shareholder Dundee Partners and its investor consortium with a minority stake held by UMG

News

Transgressive Records expands to the US, names Jack Hedges General Manager, North America and brings Canvasback Music imprint into the fold

News arrives just over a year after Transgressive partnered with Firebird Music Holdings

Analysis

Primary Wave could buy a ‘music platform’. Here’s 4 ideas about what it might acquire…

Company teased that it was targeting a music platform last week. Which areas will it be considering?

Analysis News

Merck Mercuriadis seems willing – currently – to trade in his ‘call option’ at Hipgnosis Songs Fund. So why is the company’s board offering to ‘bribe’ potential bidders with a £20 million bung in an attempt to offset it?

Yesterday, this saga took a turn for the bizarre

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As SoundCloud considers options for sale (or investment), it hires ex-Kobalt exec Tom Sansone as CFO and COO

Sansone, who reports to Eliah Seton at SoundCloud, brings more than 20 years of global financial and operational experience with him across tech and music industries.

Interviews

‘The catalog acquisition business requires not just capital, but long-standing trust, reputation, and rapport.’

MBW's World Leaders series interviews Jangwon Lee, CEO of Korea-based catalog buying fund Beyond Music

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Ryan Tedder calls Lindgren ‘the German wunderkind’. Now they’ve inked a partnership deal – as Lindgren renews his agreement with Sony Music Publishing

Deal expands long-standing relationship with SMP

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JKBX, music royalty trading platform, will launch September 12, aiming to become ‘transformative force in music and investing’

Songs that will appear on the platform on day one will include a run of chart hits performed by artists like Beyoncé, Major Lazer, and Taylor Swift