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  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    Lex
    Concord royalty bond: rising rates challenge music valuations Premium content

    Deals have been capped by growth of low-value streaming and soaring interest rates

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Due Diligence
    Hipgnosis: Livin’ on a Prayer Premium content

    Plus, the ‘THG loan’ that had more to it than met the eye and inside Italy’s race to sell Monte dei Paschi

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Hipgnosis sticks to song catalogue valuation as shares slide

    London-listed music group seeks to revive stock after run of deals end

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Hipgnosis Songs Fund launches debt-funded buyback to halt share slide

    Acquirer of song catalogues from Blondie to Neil Young says market value has fallen to half the value of its catalogues

  • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
    Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
    How Wall Street became infatuated with the music industry

    Low interest rates made investing in song catalogues a hot trend on Wall Street. As interest rates rise, what happens now?

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    The Big Read
    How Wall Street stormed the music business

    Investors poured billions into buying rights, turning pop songs into a new asset class — but then the economy stalled

  • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
    News in-depth
    Blackstone-backed song rights machine suffers growing pains

    Rapid expansion of Hipgnosis Songs Fund stalls as higher interest rates start to bite

  • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
    Lex
    Hipgnosis/Pink Floyd: Blackstone deal may leave trust uncomfortably glum Premium content

    Songs fund’s yawning discount suggests scepticism about its net asset value

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    Media
    Another brick in the Wall Street as Blackstone seeks Pink Floyd catalogue

    Deal through Hipgnosis fund could value songs at as much as $500mn

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    Media
    Blackstone tunes into Hipgnosis strategy with $1bn music investment

    Private equity group also buys stake in Merck Mercuriadis’s company as valuations boom

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    LexFinancial services
    Music/Blackstone: royalty streams are better left to institutional backers Premium content

    Private funds gain superior visibility into business prospects

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    LombardBryce Elder
    UK housing is booming, but Ibstock offers a risky bet

    Building materials are safe as houses but only at a price; Hipgnosis’ sketchy disclosure hits all the wrong notes

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    The music keeps on playing at Hipgnosis

    The acquisitive song royalty fund shows no sign of shifting tempo.

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Hipgnosis issues new shares to fuel music rights buying spree

    London-listed group also scoops up Metallica producer’s catalogue as frenetic pace of acquisitions continues

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    Stifel is worried that Hipgnosis Songs Fund is slipping out of tune

    The sellside have heard a bum note, or four.

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Neil Young joins music rights gold rush after striking Hipgnosis deal

    Merck Mercuriadis’s group continues spending spree on hit catalogues

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Hipgnosis buys Jimmy Iovine’s production royalties back catalogue

    Beats co-founder known for work with John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen is latest to cash in on music rights boom

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    FT Magazine
    From Bob Dylan to Blondie — why investors are buying up hit songs

    Songwriters deprived of touring revenue are cashing in their back catalogues but will it pay off?

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Hipgnosis plans to raise new funds with £1bn of songs in its sights

    Merck Mercuriadis’s music publishing group seeks to sustain spending on hit catalogues

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    City Bulletin
    City Bulletin: Music rights owner Hipgnosis eyes £1bn deal Premium content

    Hipgnosis eyes £1bn deal; Warner streaming shock, a defence of Philip Green

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    Hipgnosis doubles size of songbook with $323m Kobalt deal

    British music fund picks up 33,000 titles in biggest acquisition to date

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    IPOs
    Round Hill hopes to hit the right note with London IPO

    Music publishing company follows Hipgnosis in raising equity

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    LexMedia
    Hipgnosis/song funds: precarious pachyderms Premium content

    This is a risky binary stock, destined for spectacular hits or misses

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Hipgnosis enters US market with acquisition of Big Deal Music

    UK company expands song rights catalogue and adds publishing to its portfolio

  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    Music
    Blondie in rapture after selling song rights to Hipgnosis fund

    Merck Mercuriadis adds to portfolio with hits including ‘Heart of Glass’ and ‘Call Me’

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