News Warner Music spends over $100m to buy David Guetta recordings catalog Is Warner Music Group leaning towards hits created in the past 20 years?
News In historic move, Sony Music is disregarding unrecouped balances for heritage catalog artists Rob Stringer-led company meets demand from artist advocates – a policy that some believed a major record company would never openly adopt
Analysis News Hipgnosis Songs Fund now owns a music catalog worth over $2.2 billion MBW pulls out three things you need to know about UK-listed company's latest annual results
News From Believe’s $600m IPO to Hipgnosis and Influence Media’s catalog deals: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Influence Media Partners buys catalog from Grammy-nominated songwriter Julia Michaels Firm launched a $100m fund in March to invest in catalogs of female music creators
News Want to play pretend at being a record company boss? Now you can, with a fully licensed catalog. Streaming tech firm Tuned Global will handle music ingestion, delivery and royalty reporting
News Hipgnosis buys catalog from Grammy-winning producer Andy Wallace Acquisition includes 100% of his Producer, Mixer and Performance royalties
News From Jay-Z selling TIDAL to Hipgnosis and Primary Wave’s catalog buys: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Primary Wave buys Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers catalog, including master royalty income stream across Rihanna’s first seven albums 'Multi million dollar deal' includes hits from N’Sync, Kelly Clarkson, Donny Osmond, Nick Jonas and others
News Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis just spent over $100m on a rock catalog, say MBW sources Who is the artist at the center of Merck Mercuriadis's latest nine-figure deal?
News Sony says it’s ‘aggressively pursuing’ music acquisitions… and buys a Mexican catalog to prove it Comment comes as Sony Music Group posts a strong quarter in the three months to end of March
News After selling catalog to Concord, Downtown launches new services division led by Mike Smith Downtown projects that it will generate over $600m from services this year alone
News Concord buys Downtown’s owned music copyright catalog for around $400m Downtown becomes services company with no significant owned copyrights, as Concord grows again
News Primary Wave buys catalog of Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard in ‘multi-million-dollar deal’ Deal includes publishing and recorded music catalogs, as well as his master royalties as a producer
News After launching $100m fund, Influence Media buys catalog from Grammy-nominated songwriter Ali Tamposi Deal includes songs performed by Camila Cabello, Selena Gomez, Beyoncé, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber and BTS