News Round Hill Music Royalty Fund acquires catalog of Dennis Elliott, former drummer of Foreigner Foreigner has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, including 37.5m in the US
News Aerosmith inks deal to bring entire catalog to Universal Music Group Deal will bring the band's current Sony Music recordings into a Universal Music Group partnership
News Tempo Music buys into music catalog of Twenty One Pilots’ singer-songwriter Tyler Joseph Tempo Music Investments is a US-based investment platform for premium music rights
News Hipgnosis buys catalog from Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie Catalog includes 11 No.1s and 47 Top 10s
News Primary Wave acquires music publishing catalog of songwriter and producer Steve Kipner Included in the sale are several songs from Olivia Newton-John
News After buying The Killers catalog, Eldridge invests in fan engagement startup Laylo $5m-backed platform has worked with the likes of Calvin Harris and Dillon Francis
News Concord Music Publishing acquires catalog of Grammy Award-winning songwriter Lori McKenna Concord will co-publish McKenna in partnership with Creative Nation and PULSE Music Group, going forward
News Reservoir acquires minority stake in China-based Outdustry and forms JV to acquire local music catalogs New investment builds on an existing sub-publishing partnership announced in June 2020
News From the rise of catalog music to Europe’s new big money SPAC: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
Analysis News Over 66% of all music listening in the US is now of catalog records, rather than new releases New MRC Data report shows how catalog has increased its dominance over new music in 2021
News Sony Music Publishing teams with Australia’s Alberts to rep AC/DC, Vanda, Young & Wright catalogs Sony will administer the entire catalogs of the rock band and legendary songwriting team
News Actually… Universal Music Group spent nearly $3 BILLION on catalog acquisitions and artist advances last year Vivendi's annual report shows that UMG splashed out $2.87 billion on catalogs and artist advances in 2020
Blog Music catalog sales are reaching an all time high. So how will AI music catalogs fit into this new matrix and what is their value? Rory Kenny, co-founder & CEO at Loudly examines the status of music catalogs today....
News Reservoir acquires catalog of legendary rock producer Tom Werman Deal for 100% of Werman’s producer rights includes the hit Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison
News Primary Wave acquires majority stake in music publishing catalog of AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno Deal includes the hit Sail, which has over 600 million plays on Spotify alone