‘Primary Wave Music acquires Hipgnosis’ is an announcement that a few years ago would have almost-certainly involved music rights. But no, this is the other Hipgnosis: the one that designed […]
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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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Times Music acquires long-running Punjabi music label Catrack Entertainment
The Times Group-owned Times Music has acquired the catalogue of Mohali-based Punjabi music label Catrack Entertainment, its third buyout of an Indian regional-language music company after receiving a strategic investment […]
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Primary Wave confirms acquisition of Kobalt
The recent rumours suggesting Primary Wave Music was in advanced talks to buy Kobalt were on the money. The deal has been officially announced this afternoon. Primary Wave said that the deal […]
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Publishing moves: Kobalt and Reservoir are acquisition targets
In a break from individual music catalogues being rumoured to be up for sale, a pair of prominent companies in the music-publishing sector have been making headlines in recent days. […]
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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.
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Primary Wave gets puzzly with Game My Fan mobile games
While UMG’s Pause studio is turning music videos into art prints, Primary Wave’s latest partnership is about turning albums into mobile games. It is working with a company called Game My […]
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Primary Wave and Devo to launch ‘Devolutionary Times’ YouTube series
New wave pioneers Devo are taking a lap of honour 52 years after they formed. A farewell tour kicks off this September in North America, while Netflix will debut a […]
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Times Music buys two Indian labels after Primary Wave deal
Two years after taking a strategic investment from Primary Wave, Indian firm Times Music is making some of its own M&A moves.
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Primary Wave Music Founder & CEO Larry Mestel: “Most of our competitors are only interested in a strategy of buying and then flipping quickly”
June 2024: Larry Mestel, founder and CEO of Primary Wave Music. He discusses why buying a catalogue is the easy part, what is behind a slip in the value of […]
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Hall and Oates legal battle focuses on trademarks and recordings
Some things are better left unsaid, we hear, when it comes to disputes between famous rock duos. Someone should tell Hall and Oates.
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Primary Wave joint-venture sale? Daryl Hall can’t go for that
News broke last week of a rift between longtime collaborators Daryl Hall and John Oates Now details have emerged on why.
