Firebird Music Holdings has a new $750m fund for acquiring music catalogues, following its investments in management firms and labels.
Tag: Catalogue Sales
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Duetti expands with acquisitions of newer tracks and remix program
Duetti’s business providing funding for independent musicians is well established, but now it is expanding its horizons in two ways. First, it is lowering its “acquisision age threshold” for recordings. […]
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Sony Music completes big-bucks Recognition Music Group deal
As rumoured, Sony Music Publishing is acquiring the complete catalogue of Recognition Music Group (RMG) – the company formerly known as three different Hipgnosis entities. The deal covers rights to more […]
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WMG and Bain Capital splash $300m on Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue
Warner Music Group clearly realised it didn’t want to be miser when it came to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ recordings. The major’s joint-venture with Bain Capital has reportedly splashed […]
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Primary Wave’s latest fund to buy music rights reaches $2.23bn
Remember the flurry of speculation that the catalogue-sales boom was about to pop – or at least deflate? A series of announcements this year on big raises for catalogue buyers suggests […]
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Chapter Two adds clients for Baltazar AI rights-analysis tool
Outside the GenAI-music arguments, there are plenty of other opportunities for AI technologies to be used positively by the music industry. For example, in the world of catalogue sales and […]
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New & used: the majors’ pivot away from new music (guest column)
Guest column: Music Ally publishes guest columns voicing the opinions of notable authors, or advancing specific perspectives on important issues. These are chosen at the Editorial team’s discretion, are not […]
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Simply Divest: Pophouse buys majority stake in Tina Turner catalogue
Swedish firm Pophouse is best known as one of the founding investors in ABBA Voyage, and as a buyer of music rights – for example its acquisition of rock band Kiss’s […]
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Music-investment report tracks confidence of catalogue buyers
The initial boom in sales of music catalogues was followed by suggestions that the bubble had popped. However, in recent months there appears to have been an un-popping as deals […]
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Connect Music raises $80m funding for catalogue acquisitions
New entrants are still emerging in the music catalogue-buying sector, while established players have been swelling their wallets with new funding. The latest example is Memphis-based Connect Music, with $80m of […]
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With revenues up 10%, WMG is planning more catalogue buys
Warner Music Group has followed Sony Music in announcing double-digit revenue growth in the final quarter of 2025 – its fiscal Q1. For WMG, that meant a 10.4% year-on-year rise to $1.84bn. That […]
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Music-finance roundup: Sony Music x GIC, Primary Wave x Run
The global majors are as hungry to snap up interesting catalogues as investment firms are, but they can’t do it all alone.
