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Music rights acquisitions had been massive information this previous week, as they usually have been lately. If stories are to be believed, Major Wave is on the verge of hanging a music rights take care of the Infamous B.I.G. property.
In different rights acquisitions information, we discovered this week that Raven Capital Administration and Aquarian Holdings have joined forces to launch Raven Music Companions, a brand new music funding fund with an preliminary $250 million in capital to amass catalogs.
Elsewhere,Common Music Group reported its full-year 2024 earnings, displaying recorded music subscription revenues up 9.1% YoY, to USD $5 billion for the yr.
Whereas UMG celebrates its income haul, YouTube is celebrating an enormous subscriber milestone: The platform added 25 millionYouTube Music and Premium subscribers over the previous 12 months, bringing the entire to 125 million.
Lastly, we received phrase this week that Rimas Leisure, the house of Dangerous Bunny, has acquired a “important” stake in Dale Play Information, the label behind famous person producer and DJ Bizarrap.
Major Wave is reportedly near buying a major stake in Infamous B.I.G.’s music catalog plus identify and likeness rights in a deal that could possibly be valued between $100 million and $150 million.
That’s in line with The Hollywood Reporter, which reported on February 28, citing sources, that the deal is predicted to shut inside weeks.
Publishing rights to the rapper’s catalog are reportedly on the desk for $100 million, as are grasp rights for a barely greater value of an extra $30 million to $50 million.
Nevertheless, s supply informed the information outlet that the ultimate value could also be within the eight figures, not 9…
Common Music Group‘s newest FY outcomes had been launched on Thursday (March 6).
Inside UMG’s monetary figures for the 2024 fiscal/calendar yr lies this pearl: the corporate’s recorded music subscription revenues hit EUR €4.624 billion yearly, up 9.1% YoY.
That represented the equal of USD $5.00 billion, in line with common alternate charges for the yr as per IRS knowledge.
In the meantime, This fall 2024 (the three months to finish of December), UMG’s subscription streaming revenues from recorded music had been up 9.0% YoY, to EUR €1.227 billion (USD $1.33bn)…
A brand new music funding fund with deep-pocketed backers has made itself recognized.
Raven Music Companions has launched with what MBW understands to be an preliminary funding of USD $250 million to amass music rights. The fund’s longer-term aim is to personal $1 billion price of music-related copyrights.
The fund is a three way partnership between Raven Capital Administration and Aquarian Holdings. The latter agency is an funding firm based by ex-Guggenheim Companions government Rudy Sahay with $22 billion in property underneath administration.
Commenting on Aquarian’s enlargement within the music M&An area, Sahay defined in a press release on March 5 that his firm “acknowledged a compelling alternative in a crowded music royalties sector, attracted by the predictable money move and the uncorrelated nature of music rights to broader macroeconomic developments”…
Rimas Leisure, greatest often called the house of Latin music famous person Dangerous Bunny, has acquired a ‘important’ stake in Dale Play Information.
Shaped in 2018 by Federico Lauría, Argentina-based Dale Play releases music by famous person producer and DJ Bizarrap, whose Bzrp Music Periods with numerous Latin Music artists are streaming megahits.
In keeping with the official announcement on March 6, the deal was “made potential due to the help of Rob Stringer (Chairman, Sony Music Group), Afo Verde, and your complete Sony Music household, in addition to Brad Navin, Jason Pascal, and the staff at The Orchard“.
The press launch added: “Their collaboration has been instrumental in bringing this partnership to fruition, and their belief underscores the importance of this new chapter within the trade…”
Common Music Group‘s Chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge confirmed on UMG’s Q3 earnings name on the finish of October that YouTube Music “has grow to be one of many fastest-growing gamers in subscription”.
Now we all know precisely how briskly.
The platform, which additionally operates the TikTok rival Shorts, has surpassed the numerous milestone of 125 million paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers worldwide, together with trials.
The milestone implies that YouTube added 25 million subscribers over the previous 12 months – which works out to barely over 2 million subs monthly on common – since its final subscriber announcement of 100 million in February 2024…
