Author archives: Tim Ingham

Hipgnosis Songs Fund raises another $63m, taking acquisitive warchest above $500m to date

“This is not only great for the investors but the songwriting and artistic community as well.”
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How is Taylor Swift’s new album Lover performing on Spotify?

Swift’s new record trumps Ed Sheeran’s latest LP (just) – but not Ariana Grande’s
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Take a look inside Sony Music’s impressive new China HQ in Beijing

““Our new home in Beijing reinforces Sony Music’s investment in the fast-paced China market and our goal to take our local artists beyond China and place them on a regional and world stage.”
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All Eyez on eOne: Is the music industry’s next big money sell-off imminent?

After being snapped up for just $6.6m in 2013, is Death Row Records about to be acquired again?
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Spotify gets more free: 3 month Premium trial launched for new subscribers, rivalling Apple Music

New subscribers can now get 90 days of Premium for free – and it’s a permanent move
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BTS label Big Hit Entertainment turned over $166m in H1 2019 – close to its revenues in the whole of 2018

“The core of Big Hit’s IP business vision is to enhance of the brand power created through artists and secure powerful impact and influence, which can then be expanded into a sustained brand business.”
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Taylor Swift is getting friendly with Spotify ahead of her new album, Lover. Times have changed.

In the lead-up to launch day, two former foes are getting remarkably cozy…
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Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs buys The Chainsmokers catalog

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited has splashed the cash again. This time, the publicly traded UK-based company has acquired both writer and publishing rights in the catalog of The Chainsmokers, the artist and producer duo made up of Alex Pall and Andrew Tag…