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...In 2021 the firm also struck a partnership with BMG, which had been set to buy $1bn of songs, but that arrangement had only resulted in “a handful” of deals — including ZZ Top and John Legend — this person...
...Flush with cash, BMG is scooping up deals that rivals are letting go of due to cold feet, according to Masuch, a trend he noticed about four months ago — just after the Federal Reserve began raising US interest...
...It has sold 75mn albums in the US, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, compared with Springsteen’s 65.5mn US albums....
...Its members included platinum-selling bands such as Stone Temple Pilots....
...US private equity group Blackstone is vying to buy Pink Floyd’s back catalogue, a big bet on music rights that could value the band’s songs at almost half a billion dollars....
...Warner Music last March cut about 4 per cent of its staff, or 270 jobs, while publisher BMG laid off roughly 40 employees in October....
...Its $1bn partnership with BMG has only struck “a handful” of deals, this person said, including for songs by ZZ Top and John Legend....
...Thanks in large part to catching on early to the value of artists’ back catalogues — and snapping them up in a huge buying spree funded partly by the US private equity firm KKR — BMG is now the world’s fourth...
...“Hands” is a pop-R&B misstep with synthetic US-accented vocals and a semi-rapped refrain that resembles a shout-out to Barbie, as though the song were a cast-off from the blockbuster film’s soundtrack....
...The topic is complicated, he agrees, with artists sometimes championing new versions of their songs created online....
...Campaigns in the US and Europe generated lower outperformance of 6 per cent on average. The UK’s appeal to activist investors makes sense....
...Its $1bn partnership with BMG had only struck “a handful” of deals, this person said, including for songs by ZZ Top and John Legend....
...“It wasn’t just the song, it was Bowie’s entire persona,” he continues of the influences that impacted the band. “Glam rock was very important to us, then punk and disco....
...Dave Grohl’s multi-platinum rock band emerged from the ashes of another multi-platinum act, Nirvana, after Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994....
...Dates to be announced; further information here soon November Music Ghali, Palazzo dello Sport The platinum-selling Italian-Tunisian rapper and activist powerfully conveys the realities of life in Italy...
...The album went multi-platinum, elevating her to the ranks of pop’s biggest names....
...In the two decades since Pink released her debut album, Can’t Take Me Home (2000), the US superstar has ricocheted through various shades of pop....
...The approach has brought them immense success, starting with their multi-platinum debut, 2014’s In the Lonely Hour....
...Those were the days when a codpiece-wearing rocker with a line in ribald stage chat could turn a fascination for comparative religion into platinum records....
...Letter in response to this article: How to keep this Byrd song in the repertoire / From Gavin Turner, Hanworth, Norfolk, UK...
...US private equity group Blackstone is vying to buy Pink Floyd’s back-catalogue, a major bet on music rights that could value the band’s songs at almost half a billion dollars....
...She’s wearing a black knit top, jeans and grey Nikes, her hair in a short platinum bob. Ten days into rehearsing, she cautiously allows that it’s going well....
...Securitising songs has led to some unusual forms of financial analysis, such as a Kroll report that last month told bond investors a cover of Cohen’s “Hallelujah” by Pentatonix, a US a-cappella group, accounts...
...Warner Music: Investors will be paying attention to the once red-hot market for song and recording acquisitions....
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