Hipgnosis has confirmed that its much rumoured deal with Justin Bieber is now in the bag. Under the deal, worth a reported $200 million, Hipgnosis acquires all of the star’s existing song rights, as well as artist royalty and remuneration rights in relation to his recordings.If you’re interested in the technicalities of who did the deal and where the cash came from to fund it, the whole thing was negotiated by Hipgnosis Song Management on behalf of Hipgnosis Songs Capital, which is Hipgnosis’s partnership with investment outfit Blackstone.Although it’s an extensive deal – with Hipgnosis also securing the so called writer’s share of song income – the price tag is particularly impressive given that Bieber is still only 28 years old.Most of the previous mega-bucks rights acquisition deals have involved older musicians with much longer careers and therefore catalogues that contain plenty of songs with proven longevity in terms of popularity and income generation.Although, as Hipgnosis was keen to point out in its statement confirming the deal, Bieber has impressive stats to accompany the impressive price tag.
Dr Dre close to completing $250 million deals around his music rights
12.01.2023 - 14:53 / completemusicupdate.com
Dr Dre is close to completing two deals that will see Universal Music and Shamrock Holdings each acquire a bunch of music rights and revenue rights in relation to the rapper/producer’s catalogue.
Sources say Dre’s reps were seeking something in the region of $250 million for that little package of rights.According to Billboard, included in the two deals are Dre’s artist royalties from his solo albums and the NWA recordings; his producer royalties; his writer’s share on songs where he doesn’t own the publishing; the recording rights to his ‘The Chronic’ album, which will revert to Dre later this year; and his share of the Top Dawg label that came via a joint venture between that label and his Universal imprint Aftermath.It’s thought the bigger chunk of rights will be acquired by Shamrock Holdings, the equity fund which was newsworthy in music circles in 2020 when it acquired the rights in Taylor Swift’s first six albums off Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings.The good news is that, assuming those deals go through, neither Universal nor Shamrock will have to worry about often controversial US Congress member Marjorie Taylor Greene doing her best to devalue the Dre oeuvre by using it to soundtrack her bizarre political videos.Dre’s lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to Greene earlier this week after she posted a video to social media of her stomping through the halls of Congress accompanied by his track ‘Still DRE’.After Dre hit out at the use of his track in said video, Greene initially hit back, telling TMZ that she’d deliberately only used the instrumental element of ‘Still DRE’ because – while she appreciates the “creative chord progression” of the track – she would never endorse Dre’s “words of violence against women
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