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...KKR, which was an early investor in music royalties, has not bought further music assets for at least a year, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...BXPE is being set up to invest in corporate buyouts and equity-oriented strategies including late-stage venture investments, musical royalties and the purchase of stakes in other private equity firms or...
...More than half a century after the heyday of LPs, EPs and singles, vinyl has gone through a renaissance as fans gobble them up as collectibles....
...The answer, like the LP, has two sides....
...The company is also in line to receive a windfall from a US court ruling that increased royalty payments....
...It was a niche . . . music royalties have always been esoteric.”...
...Members of the IIEB have been getting together with presidents, prime ministers and even royalty at châteaux and palaces across Europe for the past seven decades. But you don’t pay to get into IIEB....
...However, the fund’s income from royalties has become comparatively less attractive to other asset classes such as bonds given the rise in interest rates....
...The music management group had floated a royalties fund in London with a tricksy corporate structure and an asset class that might be considered cool, at least relative to peers....
...Across eight rounds, attendees were tested on their knowledge of esoterica ranging from bond king pornography habits to ’00s pop royalty. Unfortunately, Bloomberg won....
...“Over the past couple of years Sequoia has faced a lot of pressure from the US side on its China business,” said one consultant to LPs in China....
...The buyout group was particularly concerned that violence could flare up on its Kericho plantation in Kenya after the country’s general election which is set for August next year....
...One of the key horseracing events of the year, Ascot hosts royalty alongside racing fans from the world over. June 18 to 22; Find information and tickets here....
...Underlying royalty revenue from Hipgnosis’s songs increased about 4 per cent to $121mn in the year to June, the company said on Thursday....
...Big investors such as Pimco and Apollo were lured into music royalties for the first time....
...By packaging the rights to thousands of songs together, royalty payments could be used as a revenue stream from which to pay dividends. But that fund is now, in effect, frozen....
...A drop in its share price means it can no longer raise money, and royalties generated by its current catalogue have been falling for at least the past two years, since the numbers were first disclosed....
...What remains to be seen is how many other music royalty funds will join Hipgnosis in the listed market now buyout funds are active....
...Venture capital, hedge fund and private equity royalty poured money into the company. And now leading law firms are vying for roles in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy like no other....
...At 56, he might be expected to slow down and enjoy the royalty cheques that come with having produced the greatest anthems of rap’s golden age....
...The announcement, made days before Tiger notified LPs of its fundraising push, said that Curtius would stay for a months-long transition....
...Letter in response to this article: Will profits from music royalties strike a bum note? / From Martina Castellanos, New York, NY, US...
...Less is paid if only half the song is listened to, and royalties only start after 30 seconds....
...Covid, and worries around the flare-up of the Omicron variant, meant numbers at the event were a far cry from what they might have been — with a handful of big companies and industry personalities pulling...
...won overwhelming support for the move at a shareholder vote in June.The value of music companies has soared in recent years as streaming services such as Spotify revived the industry, reaping billions in royalty...
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