News Reservoir acquires catalog of Latin Music hitmaker Rudy Perez Agreement also includes a publishing deal for his future works
News $200m-backed Multimedia Music acquires catalog of film and TV composer Christopher Lennertz Lennertz has worked on scores for films like Horrible Bosses, Pitch Perfect 3 and others
News deadmau5 manager and other industry veterans launch The Circuit Group to acquire stakes in song catalogs Company was founded by Dean and Jessica Wilson of Seven20, and Brett Fischer, David Gray, and Harvey Tadman of AYITA
News BMG acquires recording catalog of Australia’s Dope Lemon from creator Angus Stone Dope Lemon has amassed over 450 million streams
News Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music acquires catalog of Plested, songwriter behind hits for Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Jonas Brothers and more Founded in 2020, Seeker is led by hitmaker Evan Bogart, who is behind Rihanna’s 2006 No. 1 hit SOS
News Do Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones plan to sell their catalog? No – but it could be donated to charity. Jagger told the WSJ that “the children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on.”
News Jet, rock band behind ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’, strikes ‘landmark’ catalog deal with BMG 'Jet are a generation-defining band,' said Heath Johns, BMG President, Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia
News Primary Wave strikes ‘multi-million-dollar’ catalog deal with estate of iconic songwriter P.F. Sloan Primary Wave acquire Sloan’s publishing and writer’s share in his works, as well his master royalty income
News Primary Wave acquires stake in music publishing catalog of singer-songwriter Eddie Rabbitt Singer-songwriter co-wrote a dozen country music hits
News Influence Media, in partnership with Warner Chappell Music, acquires publishing catalog of songwriter Jesse Frasure Influence Media Partners is a US-based music and rights company founded in 2019 and led by Lylette Pizarro, Lynn Hazan, Rene McLean, and Jon Jashni
News Concord buys again as it swoops for Mojo Music & Media’s catalog of more than 30,000 songs The catalog includes the works of the bands REO Speedwagon, KISS, and Cheap Trick
News Switzerland-based MusicBird buys catalog of songwriter and producer Alex P MusicBird secured a $100m loan facility in February 2023 for music rights acquisitions
Analysis From Hipgnosis’ catalogs sale proposal to DistroKid’s Bandzoogle acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Five of the biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
News Hipgnosis’ Blackstone fund set to spend $440m buying 29 catalogs from Hipgnosis’ UK-listed fund; competitors have 40 days to try and outbid its offer. Public fund is also looking to sell another 20,000 songs acquired from Kobalt Capital for $25 million
News One Media iP acquires ‘licensor’s income share’ of Entertain Me catalog Catalog includes songs by Louis Armstrong and James Brown