Tag: primary wave

Is the music rights-buying market heading for a cooldown period? Not as long as investors are willing to pile money into it, perhaps.

They're your average ordinary everyday kids... but in Primary Wave Music's eyes, rock band Def Leppard are also stars worth investing in.

These are boom times for acquisitions of publishing catalogues, with the likes of Hipgnosis, Round Hill Music and Primary Wave competing.

Primary Wave Music and NFTs firm OneOf have a big figure to shout about from their recent auction of an NFT for Whitney Houston.

Primary Wave Music isn't done with acquisitions in 2021 just yet: the company is partnering with the estate of James Brown.

Primary Wave has had a busy year: not only did it rustle up some new funding, it has signed a bunch of partnerships, and spent money on catalogues...

Primary Wave Music is well and truly in the game for buying music rights. This year alone it has acquired (in full or in part) catalogues from artists and/or songwriters including Dan Wilson, KT Tunstall, Jon Lind, Wilson...

Two more musicians are selling their rights – or at least part of them – to investment companies. Shakira is the latest to throw in her lot with Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has acquired 100% of her music publishing rights...

It’s a day off for announcements of new Hipgnosis catalogue acquisitions, but there is still news about the company to report. It has increased its debt facility by £200m to £600m (around $814.4m) as it prepares to...

Soft-rock band Air Supply had some big hits in the early 1980s, and while the group continued as a going concern well into the 2010s, we’re a little surprised to be writing about them in 2020. But perhaps we shouldn’t...

Yes, you read that right. Def Leppard have signed a marketing and branding deal with music publishing firm Primary Wave, which says it's pitching a cartoon TV show based on the band.