News Jennifer Kirell promoted to SVP, Catalog & Retail Marketing at AWAL Prior to joining AWAL, Kirell spent 11 years with Sony Music Entertainment at Legacy Recordings
News Round Hill Music buys catalog from White Snake’s David Coverdale, strikes deal with Nancy Wilson from Heart Coverdale deal includes hits like Here I Go Again and Crying in the Rain
News Reservoir buys publishing catalog of Grammy-winning DJ, songwriter, and producer Fred Rister Deal includes several collaborations with David Guetta
News Primary Wave spends $60m on stakes in Paul Rodgers and America catalogs Primary Wave acquires again
Analysis News About that catalog music stat we published the other day… MRC Data has issued a correction to its numbers for 2021. As a result, MBW has had to re-run our own calculations based on that data.
News Cosmos Music buys Ace Records catalog, including recordings by Etta James, B.B. King and more Catalog amounts to some 9,000 masters and 3,000 compositions
Analysis News From WMG’s $250m David Bowie deal to catalog claiming 82% of the US market: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Now John Legend sells: BMG and KKR buy catalog from All Of Me hitmaker Deal was executed in September last year, according to regulatory filing
Analysis Over 73% of the US music market is now claimed by catalog records, rather than new releases (UPDATE) MBW's analysis of latest MRC Data numbers show that less than a fifth of US market in H2 2021 was made up of new releases
News Primary Wave acquires stake in catalog of singer-songwriter Matt Redman Primary Wave says the deal strengthens its position in the faith-based market
News Warner buys David Bowie song catalog for $250m+ Allen Grubman said: “We are truly gratified that David Bowie’s body of music will now be in the capable hands of Warner Chappell Music Publishing."
Analysis News The important detail of Bruce Springsteen’s $500m-plus catalog sale to Sony Music Group Sony had a co-investor in the acquisition of publishing rights: Todd Boehly's Eldridge Industries
News Concord Music Publishing acquires catalog of Country singer-songwriter Andy Albert Songwriter also inks worldwide publishing deal covering full acquired catalog and future works
News Music’s first $500m artist catalog deal finally arrives as Bruce Springsteen sells rights to Sony Springsteen reportedly sells masters and publishing rights to Sony Music
Analysis News Hipgnosis Songs Fund now owns a catalog of 65,413 songs… worth a combined $2.55bn "As we look forward, despite the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, we continue to see a promising outlook for the music industry and our Catalogues."