News Bella Figura Music secures fresh funding to bolster catalog acquisitions The music company has acquired rights to hits by Robbie Williams and Human League, among others
News KISS sells song catalog, name and IP to Pophouse, company behind ABBA Voyage, in $300m deal Pophouse announced acquisition of Cyndi Lauper catalog in February
Music Business Jobs BMG BMG – Director, Deep Catalog (US) Required: Successful track record of leading marketing teams to achieve outstanding resultsJob type: Marketing/Digital MarketingLocation: Los Angeles, United StatesApplications for this position have now closed.
Music Business Jobs SECRETLY GROUP Secretly Group – Project Manager, Catalog (US) Must be able to demonstrate independent thought and action while operating in sync with a larger team. An understanding of the independent retail landscape strongly preferredJob type: OperationsLocation: Brooklyn, Los AngelesApplications for this position have now closed.
News BMG buys catalog of Germany’s Coconut Music, including the recorded rights of ‘What Is Love’ star Haddaway Deal builds on BMG’s 2022 acquisition of Haddaway’s recorded royalties
News Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry sells stake in catalog to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group Deal arrives two weeks after the company raised $1bn to buy more music rights
News Cyndi Lauper sells publishing catalog and master recording revenue to Pophouse Entertainment, the company behind ABBA Voyage Deal marks Pophouse’s first acquisition from a US artist
News Bella Figura appoints Billy Millar as SVP of Creative, Chris Presland as Catalog Project Manager Millar has previously held prominent roles at BMG and Hipgnosis, while Presland comes to Bella Figura from AWAL
News Believe UK and Bella Union ink global partnership for releases and select catalog Believe UK will handle all-format distribution and provide comprehensive support to Bella Union's operations
News TikTok has ALREADY started removing Universal’s music publishing catalog from its platform This Friday (March 1), TikTok's current license for the Universal Music Publishing Group catalog – spanning some 4 million songs – officially expires
Analysis News TikTok: UMG’s catalog, including publishing, only makes up ‘approximately 30% of popular music on our platform’ It's a surprising claim from the ByteDance company...
News Position Music acquires part of catalog of DJ and producer Gesaffelstein The deal includes the publishing rights to Gesaffelstein's catalog prior to his signing with Sony Music Publishing
Analysis News From Rod Stewart’s $100m catalog sale to a takeover bid for Believe… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Duetti raises $90 million in new funding to acquire indie artists’ catalogs The company aims to "democratize" music rights acquisitions by bringing the practice into the indie music space
News Rod Stewart sells catalog to Iconic Artists Group for around $100m; company raises $1bn to buy more music rights Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group has secured a strategic investment from HPS Investment Partners (HPS)