Justin Bieber is close to selling the rights to his masters and publishing to Hipgnosis/Blackstone. Another mega-deal almost done.
Justin Bieber nears $200m deal to sell music rights to Hipgnosis’ Blackstone fund (report)
– Zeeshan Zaidi
The team at Fan Engagement startup Laylo just got funded by Eldridge among others including Third Prime Ventures, LVRN Management, Shane Mac (XMTP), Gil Weisblum (Ranger Global), Patricio Worthalter (POAP), Jonathan Strauss (There have been lots of startups over the years in this space, none has really blown up. Let’s see how they do.
– Zeeshan Zaidi
Kobalt just got sold – This is a big deal!
Here’s the story in Music Business Week about it.
Congrats to the team at Kobalt.
Another sign that big money continues to pour into music rights.
– Zeeshan Zaidi
A lot of people are incredibly excited about the latest Maggie Rogers album, and I’m one of them. Her emergence onto the scene was the stuff of fairy tales and her debut album was extremely solid.
I’m digging the first single, “That’s Where I Am”