Tag: catalogue

Hipgnosis Songs Fund wants to buy more songs for its fund, but to do that it’s going to have to raise more money. And so it is: the publicly listed company is going to be selling £150m (around $211m) worth of shares to...

Hipgnosis Songs Fund saw its revenues grow to $138.4m in its last financial year, which ended on 31 March. That’s up from $83.3m the year before. Meanwhile, the company says that its catalogue has been “independently...

We’re delighted to announce the latest insight event that we are working on with British music industry body the BPI. Due to be held online on 8 July, it’s called ‘Tellin’ Stories: The Art of Building...

Westcott is a platform that automatically advertises catalogue music: it generates Facebook and Instagram ads, identifies audiences, tracks industry signals, figures out best market pricing, makes ad buys, and provides real-time...

Influence Media is one of the latest entrants into the catalogue-buying market, having launched its $100m fund in March. The company is making the fact that it was founded by women a key part of its brand: “It’s our...

You wait years for a big music IPO, and suddenly they’re popping up all over the shop – not least because one of the buzziest corporate trends at the moment is going public by merging with a ‘special purpose...

The feeding frenzy around music catalogues continues, with a new player entering the market this week. CTM Outlander Music is a joint venture between US investment firm Outlander Capital Management and Dutch music firm CTM....

The Beach Boys are the latest to join the heritage artists buyouts bonanza, selling a controlling interest in their master recordings and a cut of their publishing, memorabilia and overall Beach Boys brand to Irving Azoff’s...

On the rare news-day when we don’t have a Hipgnosis catalogue acquisition to report, it feels like there’s often news of the company raising more money for its next swathe of deals instead. On Friday, Hipgnosis announced that...

Another day, another publishing acquisition. This time it’s two of the founding members of Massive Attack, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall, selling their back catalogue to Round Hill Music for an undisclosed amount....

Good news! Investment management firm Guardian Fund thinks that by 2030, Spotify will be worth “at least five times more” than its current market cap. Which, with the latter being just under $60bn, means a prediction...

Josh Gruss, CEO of Round Hill Music, was the keynote interviewee for NY:LON Connect’s publishing strand yesterday. He offered some views on the disparity in digital royalties between recordings and songs. “I think it...