News Recognition Music Group plans $372m bond sale – as value of catalog once known as Hipgnosis Songs Fund continues to balloon Blackstone-owned Recognition owns the portfolio of music rights built by Merck Mercuriadis at HSF
News Saregama, India’s oldest label, acquires 6,500-track catalog from NAV Records and YouTube channels with combined 24m+ subscribers The acquisition covers 6,500 tracks and YouTube channels with over 24 million subscribers.
Analysis Why the ‘Long Fat Tail’ of the Oasis catalog will Live Forever The following MBW Explains article was written by Will Page, the author of 'Pivot: Eight Principles for Transforming Your Business' and the former Chief Economist for both Spotify and PRS for Music
News Orla Lee-Fisher joins Warner as Head of Dual Catalog Strategy, as major steps up M&A activity Exec joins WMG to 'champion' catalogs represented by WMG across both recorded music and music publishing
News Sony strikes strategic deal with Dominican Republic’s Alofoke Music, acquires portion of label’s catalog Label was founded by prominent Dominican Republic-based media personality Santiago “Alofoke” Matías
News Kobalt inks publishing deal with country songwriter Derrick Southerland, acquires portion of song catalog Southerland was nominated for a Grammy, and won several other awards, for his work on Ingrid Andress' 'More Hearts Than Mine'
News Seeker Music acquires Jay Sean’s catalog, along with music rights from ‘Bobby Bass’ Larow and Cardiak The music company headed up by Evan Bogart has struck its latest deal
News Hopeless acquires catalog of independent punk label Fat Wreck Chords Label, home to NOFX and other influential punk bands, was founded in 1990 by NOFX’s Fat Mike (Michael John Burkett ) and Erin Burkett
Interviews Rezonate plans to spend $1 billion buying producer catalogs over the next 5 years. Here’s why… and how. MBW's Trailblazers series meets Cam Blackwood and Tom Tyler, co-founders of Rezonate Music Rights
News Warner Music Finland acquires catalog of independent record company Skorpioni The company announced earlier this year that it would be ceasing operations
News Catalog management platform OpenPlay strikes partnership with payouts service Trolley Partnership will see Trolley integrated into recently launched distribution and monetization service, OpenPlay Reach
News Anthem Music Publishing acquires Marty Robbins song catalog The acquisition covers more than 500 songs released across 72 albums spanning the late 1940s through the early 1980s.
News Reservoir strikes ‘multifaceted’ deal with indie label Fools Gold Records, including acquisition of several of its artists’ catalogs Deal sees Fool’s Gold join Reservoir’s recorded music division
News Julian Palmer joins UMPG UK as Senior Director, A&R and Catalogue Palmer joins UMPG after 12 years at Columbia Records.
News Rezonate Music Rights launches with $150m backing from Bridgepoint to acquire producer catalogs Company has already acquired rights from several producers