News Music licensing platform Freshsound raises $1.33m, recruits ex-Sony and Warner exec Helen McLaughlin to lead catalog expansion McLaughlin is a former Managing Director of Warner Music Sweden, Head of A&R at Sony Music Sweden
News Arctic Monkeys’ label Domino grew its turnover by 31.6% in 2021, driven by strong catalog sales AM, the 2013-released fifth album from Arctic Monkeys was the UK’s No.1 best-selling independent album in 2021
Analysis News From Universal’s Frank Zappa catalog acquisition to Triller’s US IPO… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The big stories from the past week
News Universal buys Frank Zappa recordings, song catalog and complete contents of ‘The Vault’ housing 1,000+ hours of film and video Acquisition also includes Frank Zappa’s name and likeness
News Reservoir strikes deal for stake in catalog of hip-hop producer Marley Marl Deal includes the 2x-Platinum album Mama Said Knock You Out and Grammy-winning title track performed by LL Cool J
News Primary Wave Music strikes catalog deal with ‘Danger Zone’ co-writer Tom Whitlock The 'multi-million-dollar deal' brings all of Whitlock’s music publishing interests to Primary Wave
News Zara Larsson buys back recording catalog, launches new Sommer House label Larsson's catalog has been streamed over 9 billion times
News The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas sells stake in publishing catalog to Primary Wave in ‘multi-million dollar deal’ Company says deal includes 'share of music publishing on all Strokes compositions, as well as his share of master copyrights and master royalties'
Analysis News From Justin Timberlake’s catalog sale to Sony’s unrecouped balance program expansion: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Justin Timberlake sells song catalog to Hipgnosis and its $1bn-backed Blackstone fund Hipgnosis buys 100% of all of Timberlake’s copyright, ownership and financial interests of the Writer and Publisher’s Share of Public Performance income, and the catalog of musical compositions written by Justin Timberlake.
News BMG and Warner competing for Pink Floyd catalog, which could fetch more than Bruce Springsteen’s $500m+ deal (report) FT reports that bids are flying in above the half-billion-dollar mark
News Sony Music Publishing teams with Domain Capital to acquire career-spanning catalog from hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. (MBW’s sources put the deal at $40m.) Gorley had three cuts featured on the standard version of the biggest album in the US last year, Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album
Analysis News Pink Floyd considering sale of recorded music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, say Bloomberg sources Warner bought control of Pink Floyd with Parlophone. But not, it seems, for the long term.
News Multimedia Music buys Atlantic Screen catalog, including Max Richter, Atticus Ross scores The James Gibb-founded company raised over $100 million in February
Analysis Blog Could the Music Catalog Rights Boom Generate Windfalls for Non-Superstars? YM&U Executive Manager, Alex Frankel, on tech that could expand the catalog rush to smaller artists and songwriters