Concord set to buy Round Hill’s UK-listed royalty fund in a huge $468.8m deal
Earlier this summer, MBW reported that Concord had over USD $550 million in fresh capital to spend on acquisitions....
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Snafu launches AI-powered ‘Snafu Song Fund’ financing for indie artists backed by $7m round led by Pophouse Entertainment
Sweden-based Snafu Records has attracted a fair bit of industry attention since launching in February 2020 with $2.9 million...
HYBE is raising $380m to fund more music acquisitions in the US (report)
HYBE, the music company behind K-pop superstars BTS and rising stars New Jeans, is looking to raise around 500...
Canadian fund ICM buys High Society Management catalog including songs by Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA
ICM Crescendo Music Royalty Fund, a Canada-based music rights-buying fund, has acquired a catalog of songs owned by High...
Justin Bieber nears $200m deal to sell music rights to Hipgnosis’ Blackstone fund (report)
Justin Bieber is reportedly nearing a deal to sell his music rights to Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital. That’s according...
4 things we learned from Merck Mercuriadis’ Q&A with Hipgnosis Songs Fund analysts
Earlier this month, UK-listed Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) published its latest fiscal results, and they were speckled with up-pointing...
Artist financing platform beatBread closes $100m fund to ’empower independent artists and labels’
Music funding platform beatBread has been making a lot of head-turning headlines this year. In February, for example, the...
New $100m-backed fund launches to buy catalogs in Asia, led by industry veteran Chee Meng Tan and ex-Universal Music China MD Garand Wu
The global music rights acquisitions space’s biggest players have been predominantly based in the US and Europe to date....
Blockchain music platform Opulous launches fund to buy copyrights
Catalog acquisitions and Web3 innovations: Perhaps the two music industry narratives that have generated the most headlines in the...
Germany’s music publishing landscape transforms via €10m+ acquisition: Roba teams with fund to buy GERIG
The music industry hasn’t been short of eight-figure ($10m+) acquisition deals in the past week. First BMG swooped for...