News Reservoir buys Mannie Fresh’s catalog, including publishing and recorded music rights Mannie Fresh spent a large portion of his career producing for Cash Money Records
News Primary Wave acquires stake in catalog of singer songwriter Russ Ballard Deal includes a stake in his music publishing catalog and writer’s share royalties, as well as his writer’s share of public performance
News After raising $100m last month, Multimedia Music acquires catalog of Hollywood composer Trevor Morris in eight figure deal Company has deployed over $120m on acquisitions since launching 15 months ago
News Canadian fund ICM buys High Society Management catalog including songs by Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA ICM was established via a partnership between ICM Asset Management and Crescendo Royalty Corporation in July 2020
News Primary Wave acquires stake in catalog of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan Deal sees company acquire a stake in McLachlan’s music publishing and recorded music catalog
Analysis News Reservoir Media has spent over $695m on catalogs to date (and 5 other things we learned about the company from its new Investor Factsheet) MBW fillets a new investor factsheet published by the publicly-traded firm
News NetEase Cloud Music renews deal to distribute Rock Records’ catalog in China Rock Records was established in 1980 by Tuan Chung-tan and Tuan Chung-i
News Hipgnosis acquires ‘Despacito’ co-writer Erika Ender’s catalog Hit song was written alongside Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee
Analysis News BMG annual revenues jumped 30.6% to over $900m in 2022, as it spent $400m on catalog acquisitions Annual EBITDA expands to top $200 million at Bertelsmann-owned music company
News After securing $100m loan facility to buy music rights, Switzerland-based MusicBird acquires Midge Ure catalog Company says it has acquired the writers share, master recording and neighboring rights income on over 300 songs
News Cutting Edge acquires ‘major’ film music catalog from First Score Music in multi-million dollar deal Company says acquisition gives it full master and publishing rights to more than 75 'premium' film scores
News Canadian singer-songwriter Corey Hart sells publishing catalog to peermusic He has sold over 16 million records worldwide
News $100m-backed rights company AMR Songs launches, acquires interest in catalog of The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian Sources tell MBW that AMR Songs has raised USD $100m in backing from institutional investors
News Multimedia Music raises another $100m, acquires catalog of Emmy-winning composer Sean Callery New investment sees the company grow its funds from $100 million to $200 million
News Spotify removes catalog of Zee Music, one of India’s largest domestic labels, due to licensing dispute Zee has 93.6 million YouTube subscribers