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...Hipgnosis Songs has separately agreed to sell a portfolio of non-core song rights for $25mn, although it did not disclose the buyer....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the listed UK music rights investment company, has agreed to a $1.4bn takeover from US rival Concord Chorus....
...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...
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the listed UK music rights investment company, has agreed to a $1.4bn takeover from Apollo-backed rival Concord Chorus....
...However, the sector has come under greater scrutiny in recent months given the mounting problems at Hipgnosis Songs Fund, a listed music rights investment company that has been forced to slash the value...
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Song Management declined to comment on Mercuriadis’s proposal....
...The board had previously asked for an opinion from Hipgnosis Song Management (HSM), the company’s investment manager run by Mercuriadis and majority-owned by Blackstone....
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...Brûlée features a pair of English singers performing songs written by a Belgian musician from Brussels. He is Thomas Jean Henri, leader of the collaborative project Cabane....
...It is part of a project about life in China’s Song dynasty. Is he interested in Chinese history?...
...However, deals for significantly sized labels such as Believe are relatively rare with most transactions focused on acquiring the rights to song categories that provide a steady income and potential to revive...
...Miley Cyrus had the longest stretch at the top of the charts — with her song “Flowers” remaining at number one for 10 weeks — but four of 2023’s five biggest tracks and seven of the year’s top 10 songs were...
...Shareholders in Hipgnosis Songs Fund have overwhelmingly voted down the investment trust’s attempt to secure a further five-year mandate, throwing the future of the troubled UK-listed music rights owner...
...Other highlights include the Chansons de Bilitis, elegantly sung by Mantashyan, and En blanc et noir for two pianos, in which Gerstein is joined by none other than composer Thomas Adès....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the troubled music rights owner, is searching for a new auditor after PwC refused to reapply for the job....
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...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the UK listed investment company that buys the rights to songs, will sell some of its music to a Blackstone-owned sister fund for $465mn to try to address the large discount between...
...HSF said on Monday that Citrin Cooperman, the independent valuer of HSF’s catalogue, had “materially reduced” expectations of industry-wide payments from US songs....
...Because the listed fund trades below the valuation of the song catalogue that HSF has presented to investors, it cannot raise more money to add to its catalogue, which includes songs by Neil Young and Blondie...
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the troubled music rights investment trust, has launched a strategic review that could change the terms of its management agreement following shareholder dissent over plans to sell...
...The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Blackstone’s Hipgnosis Songs Capital will acquire one large portfolio of song rights for $440m, while another buyer has been found for rights worth $25m....
...Emma Thomas, Nolan’s wife and the film’s producer, accepted the best picture prize. “I could deny it but I have been dreaming of this for so long,” Thomas said in her acceptance speech....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the UK-listed music rights owner, has pulled payment of its interim dividend after warning that debt covenants would have been at risk because of a change in royalty payments made to...
...But one of the groups at the vanguard of this push — the UK-listed Hipgnosis Songs Fund — has been hit by a series of issues as the value of music rights has stalled....
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