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The music catalog of rock band Queen could soon sell for more than $1 billion, CNN is reporting. Citing an anonymous source, CNN says a deal is underway for Universal Music Group to acquire the ...
Sting has become the latest elder rocker to cash in his songwriting catalog, selling his back output to Universal Music for a reported $300 million.. In doing so, the 70-year-old Sting joins ...
In December, Sony purchased Bruce Springsteen’s entire catalog — covering both his songwriting and recorded music, which have separate copyrights — for around $550 million.
Before the rebrand Universal Music Catalogue had a logo but it wasn’t really being used as a brand according to Simpson. “They’re not a dusty old warehouse…” “They’re not a dusty old warehouse, but a ...
Sting is the latest rock star to cash in on his music catalog, cutting a deal to sell it for an estimated $250 million. The British-born singer has sold his publishing and recorded music catalogs &… ...
Universal Music Group on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa’s catalog of music, recordings and film archive for an undisclosed fee.
As long expected, Universal Music Publishing has acquired 17-time Grammy Award winner Sting’s career catalog of music. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in recent months the artist was ...
Streaming music services have seemingly become the dominant medium these days in terms of how people listen to music, and it's no wonder considering how. X. Home; All the ...
British singer-songwriter Sting has sold his career music catalogue to Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the company said on Thursday, in the latest such move by an artist to cash in on ...
Bob Dylan sold his songwriting catalog, which included 600 copyrights over the course of 60 years of music, to Universal in 2020 for between $300 million and $400 million. Last month, Mr. Dylan ...
Before the rebrand Universal Music Catalogue had a logo but it wasn’t really being used as a brand according to Simpson. “They’re not a dusty old warehouse…” “They’re not a dusty old warehouse, but a ...
Universal Music Publishing Group has acquired Sting‘s entire song catalog, which includes rock classics from The Police frontman like “Roxanne,” “Every Breath You Take” and “Message in ...