‘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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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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Hipgnosis founder to roll up management firms in new venture
Don’t call it a comeback, he’s been here for years… Actually, DO call it a comeback: Merck Mercuriadis is bringing back the Hipgnosis brand for a new company that appears […]
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CEO of Dynamite Songs, Alan Wallis: “Catalogues selling for 25x? That’s gone”
June 2025: Alan Wallis, CEO of Dynamite Songs. The price of rights: blockbuster catalogue sales became a core characteristic of the rights business half a decade ago where some of […]
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Sony Music Publishing has acquired Hipgnosis Songs Group
Hipgnosis Songs Group has a new owner: Sony Music Publishing. But it’s important to understand what the acquisition includes.
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Three Hipgnosis companies rebrand as Recognition Music Group
Hipgnosis is dead! But not in a disastrous way: the music-catalogues acquirer has simply rebranded to Recognition Music Group.
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Barry Manilow hits back at Hipgnosis in battle over bonuses
Music and passion were always the fashion for Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) when it acquired veteran artist Barry Manilow’s worldwide recording royalties in August 2020. However, the relationship appears to have reached […]
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Hipgnosis Songs Fund shareholders approve Blackstone deal
Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) shareholders yesterday approved the proposed acquisition of the company by investment giant Blackstone.
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Merck Mercuriadis to step down as Hipgnosis Song Management chairman
Music-catalogues buyer Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) is in the process of being acquired by investment firm Blackstone.
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Blackstone makes ‘best and final’ offer for Hipgnosis Songs Fund
Having fended off Concord in the battle to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund, investment firm Blackstone has made a ‘best and final’ offer for the music-catalogues buyer.
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Hipgnosis Songs Fund agrees to sell to Blackstone-backed bidco
There is big news to report this morning on the battle to acquire music rights-buyer Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF).
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Concord increases its bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund to $1.51bn
The bidding war for Hipgnosis Songs Fund may be only just getting started.
