catalogs

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s…

Music rights company Reservoir Media has been very busy of late.This year alone, the New York-headquartered company signed a deal with De La Soul that brought the hip-hop trio’s music to streaming services for the first time; bought the…

After a somewhat sluggish second half of 2022, the music M&A market has come roaring back to life this year.The first quarter of 2023 was marked by some of the highest-profile acquisition deals yet seen, including Blackstone-backed…

MBW Reacts is a series of comment pieces from the Music Business Worldwide team. They are our analytical (and sometimes opinionated) reactions to major recent entertainment news stories.Reservoir Media had an impressive 2022.The New…

Spain-born Larrosa Music Group has secured €15 million ($16m) for what it says is “the purchase of catalogs and the deployment of advances for Spanish-speaking markets”.Larrosa describes itself as a “financing and technology consultancy for…

Mojo Music & Media has acquired a series of separate catalogs that collectively include 30 chart hits spanning seven decades, from the 1950’s through the 2010’s.The deals, done with 2022 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Warren…

Seeker Music, the new music rights and publishing company headed up by hit songwriter Evan Bogart, has acquired the catalogs of two pop songwriters.The first of those deals is with John Ryan (40+ One Direction songs, Maroon 5, John Legend)…

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s…

The global music rights acquisitions space’s biggest players have been predominantly based in the US and Europe to date.But over in Asia, new big-money funds have started to make some serious noise over the past few months.In June, for…

Nashville-based independent publishing company Mojo Music & Media has acquired a 50% interest in the publishing catalog of songwriter Bob Morrison.The company has also acquired the writer share, artist and record royalties of writer,…