News Reservoir acquires rights to catalog of Grammy-winning Lion King composer Lebohang Morake South African composer strikes music rights deal with Reservoir Media
News GoldState Music buys catalogs from CatchPoint Rights, AMR Songs for $200m (report) GoldState has strategically targeted music publishing and royalty income streams that offer steady returns
News Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music acquires The Wombats publishing catalog Company has acquired the publishing rights to the band's first four albums
News Bell Partners and Larrosa form strategic alliance, backed by $350m in investments, to acquire music catalogs and companies Bell Partners was founded by veteran writer, producer and executive Hayden Bell
News Nashville hitmaker Matt Alderman sells catalog to Anthem Entertainment Anthem has also signed a publishing deal with the hitmaking country songwriter
News AEG sues Young Thug for breach of contract after $16M catalog sale (report) The live entertainment company says Young Thug sold a repertoire of songs that were collateral for a loan
News Anthem Entertainment acquires Puerto Rican rapper Darell’s catalog, hires Victor Mijares as VP of Latin Music The Toronto-headquartered company is looking to bolster its presence in the Latin music space
News Sony Music acquires recorded music catalog of Egyptian superstar Amr Diab Sony has also signed what it calls a 'forward-looking multi-album deal' with the artist
News BeatStars integrates music catalog into Voloco mobile recording app BeatStars' catalog of over 9 million tracks will now be available directly within Voloco's platform
News Duetti secures fresh $114m to buy indie artist catalogs, including $80m raised through firm’s first asset-backed securitization transaction Company, which officially launched in May 2023, says it has raised $235 million so far
News The Hipgnosis Songs Fund catalog has just been valued at $2.36bn… around $150m more than HSF’s enterprise value when Blackstone acquired it Blackstone raises nearly $1.5 billion in debt financing via new ABS, based on substantial valuation for Hipgnosis Songs Fund assets
Analysis Why was Sony Music willing to pay megabucks for Queen and Pink Floyd’s catalogs? MBW glances over some of the key factors in Sony's willingness to spend over $2 billion on three recent catalog deals
News Whose rights were sold to Concord in that $217m catalog deal? Daddy Yankee. Puerto Rican megastar inks deal which covers recording and publishing assets
Analysis News Concord acquires mystery Latin Music catalog for $217m, after raising $850m in latest asset backed securities transaction Concord catalog now worth more than USD $5 billion, according to Kroll report
News Drake and Travis Scott collaborator Cardo sells publishing catalog to Kilometre Music, as fund’s total music rights spend nears USD $150m Kilometre says that its latest acquisition covers about 350 songs