News After teaming up with Sony Music Publishing to buy Ashley Gorley catalog, Domain Capital closes new $700m+ fund As of June 30, 2022, Domain managed approximately $8.4bn in total assets
News Universal Music Publishing Group strikes global deal to represent song catalog of Irving Berlin Deal builds on UMPG’s existing relationship with Berlin’s estate
News Primary Wave buys catalog of US rock band Huey Lewis and The News for $20m Deal encompasses band’s entire commercially released music catalog from inception through 1994
Analysis News Amazon expands Prime member music access to catalog of 100m songs Catalog access increases from 2m to 100m songs for Prime members
News Reservoir strikes deal with Grammy Award-winning artist KayGee, including entire catalog and future works KayGee is a founding member of Grammy-winning hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature.
News Reservoir acquires catalog of Swing legend Louis Prima Deal includes rights to both Prima’s publishing and recorded music catalogs
Interviews Per Sundin on ABBA, Pophouse’s acquisition strategy – and why he thinks the smartest people at record companies will soon be working on catalog The CEO of Pophouse Entertainment, and former CEO of Universal Music Sweden, joins the MBW Podcast
Interviews News Music catalog acquisitions cooling down? Not at Primary Wave: ‘We’ve never been busier.’ MBW breaks down Primary Wave's new deal – and gets answers from Larry Mestel
News Pink Floyd’s $500m catalog auction delayed due to band ‘infighting’ (report) Catalog auction process is reportedly in limbo
News Country superstar Blake Shelton sells catalog to Influence Media Partners Catalog ahs sold more than 10m albums worldwide to date
News BMG’s Global Head of Catalog Recordings, Peter Stack, to step down at end of 2022 Stack joined BMG in 2014 following the company's acquisition Union Square Music
Analysis News From Concord buying Phil Collins + Genesis bandmates catalogs to Pophouse’s Avicii rights deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
Analysis Interviews News New $100m-backed fund launches to buy catalogs in Asia, led by industry veteran Chee Meng Tan and ex-Universal Music China MD Garand Wu Singapore-based music fund launches with initial raise of USD $100m
News Sony Music catalog pulled from Resso, TikTok’s sister subscription platform Sources suggest Sony Music rejected commercial terms offered by platform
News HarbourView buys Big Loud Mountain Music’s publisher share of songs from Florida Georgia Line catalog Big Loud Mountain Music is a Nashville-based independent publishing, management, and production company