Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Blackstone also part owns Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM), the manager of Hipgnosis Songs Fund....
...Blackstone has agreed a deal to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund for almost $1.6bn in the latest salvo in the bidding battle for the listed music rights owner....
...I don’t think doing orchestral music is better than doing a folk song or an advert. I would do a jingle if it was an interesting thing to do and if I had full rein and freedom.”...
...Mélodies and Songs’ is released by Aparté...
...[MUSIC PLAYING]...
...When promoting any business with Ponzi-like economics there might be no such thing as bad publicity, though there’s still such a thing as bad music....
...More than a decade after its release, in 2011, All Songs Considered, US National Public Radio’s flagship music programme, said the album “kick-started an Americana music revival”....
...Blackstone also set up a separate $1bn fund called Hipgnosis Songs Assets to acquire music rights catalogues. That fund is also managed by Hipgnosis Song Management....
...Analysts expect quarterly recorded-music revenues up 6 per cent year-on-year to €2bn, of which about €1.1bn will come from paid streaming services....
...Blackstone has won the backing of Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s board as the US private equity group seeks to derail Concord Chorus’s proposed $1.4bn takeover of the UK-listed music rights investment company Blackstone...
...Music rights are not straightforward to price. Combine record sales, radio play, tour income, streaming and media use, and songs can make millions of dollars....
...On Thursday, Hipgnosis Songs Fund made an unusual offer for bidders to come forward for its music catalogue by promising to cover costs up to £20mn for any recommended offer....
...(UXDesign) — The Silly Season in Antitrust: The Hermès Case (Truth on the Market) — Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno (404 Media) — Brutalist churches (De Zeen) — Rocks (Neal.fun)...
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund has slashed the value of its music portfolio by more than a quarter, and said it would need to use free cash to pay down debt, in the latest blow to investors in the UK-listed music...
...Silvestrov formed part of the programme for the fifth Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, held over three nights at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music....
...In pieces such as his Armenian Dances of 1916 and a selection of his songs, included here, we go to the roots of Armenian music, so immediately distinctive in its rhythms and modal inflections....
...The song belies its foreboding title by settling into a warm groove....
...Universal Music is set to pull its songs from TikTok after a breakdown in negotiations over payment, which would remove the social media platform’s access to music from stars such as Taylor Swift, The Weeknd...
There’s an ever rousing market for programmes, T-shirts and props
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund has slashed the value of its music portfolio by more than a quarter and said it would need to use free cash to pay down debt, in the latest blow to investors in the UK-listed music rights...
...Much of the repertoire is through-improvised, with song titles borrowed from artworks in a Robert Rauschenberg monograph — “Rauschenberg was always good with titles”, writes Hersch on the sleeve....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the listed UK music rights investment company, has agreed to a $1.4bn takeover from US rival Concord Chorus....
International Edition