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In accordance with an unbiased valuer quoted in HSF’s monetary filings (and as reported by MBW final 12 months), HSF’s portfolio of copyrights was value USD $2.55 billion on the finish of September 2021.
Six months later (as per HSF’s new annual report) and that very same unbiased valuer now says that – as of finish of March 2022 – Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s portfolio was value $2.69 billion.
In different phrases, over the course of six months, Hipgnosis grew in worth by $140 million. Curiously, this $140 million development was achieved by HSF with out shopping for a single catalog within the six months to finish of March.
Elsewhere this week, US-based social video firm Triller printed an open letter from its CEO Mahi de Silva, calling for “each American” to delete its rival TikTok.
Inside the letter, which echoes safety issues raised by officers within the US in regards to the ByteDance-owned app, Triller’s CEO claims that “there is no such thing as a doubt that TikTok performs a central function in enabling surveillance networks inside and outdoors China”.
The publication of Triller’s letter follows final month’s information that the corporate has filed to go public within the US on the NASDAQ.
Talking of TikTok, this week, MBW requested how a lot TikTok truly paid the music business from its $4 billion in revenues final 12 months. As a proportion of that complete 2021 turnover, the quantity TikTok is estimated to have paid recorded music rightsholders ($179m) works out at 4.5%.
Additionally this week, Three Six Zero acquired the enduring SARM Music Village in London, whereas HYBE, the corporate behind Ok-pop stars BTS, struck a worldwide content material take care of The Walt Disney Firm.
Earlier than we dig into that, and our headline above, the now-standard little bit of housekeeping:
Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) is the publicly-traded UK fund that IPO’d on the London Inventory Change in 2018;
Its funding advisor is Hipgnosis Track Administration (HSM), which is run by Merck Mercuriadis and his workforce;
Blackstone final 12 months privately invested a billion US {dollars} in a brand new Hipgnosis fund, Hipgnosis Songs Capital (HSC), along with making an undisclosed funding in Hipgnosis Track Administration;
The latter firm (HSM) shouldn’t be solely tasked with discovering catalog acquisition alternatives for each HSF and HSC, but additionally with maximizing returns from their owned catalogs vis sync, advertising and marketing, streaming and many others.
What was notably fascinating about Hipgnosis Songs Fund (the UK-listed entity) within the second half of its newest fiscal 12 months? It didn’t spend a single penny on catalogs.
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In accordance with MBW’s learn of Goldman Sachs‘ newest Music In The Air report, TikTok paid recorded music rightsholders (i.e. labels and artists) a grand complete of round $179 million in 2021.
Now. In accordance with Bloomberg, TikTok generated revenues approaching $4 billion globally in 2021. TikTok is anticipated to triple this determine to $12 billion in 2022.
As a proportion of that complete 2021 turnover, the quantity TikTok is estimated to have paid recorded music rightsholders ($179m) subsequently works out at 4.5%.
The whole lot’s received a bit cozy this summer time.
We haven’t had a correct public falling out within the music business for a while now. However, up steps Triller.
This week, the US-based social video firm printed an open letter from its CEO Mahi de Silva, calling for “each American” to delete its rival TikTok.
The letter, through which Triller’s CEO “calls for each American to delete TikTok as we speak and the US Authorities to take direct and overdue motion to ban TikTok”, echoes safety issues raised by officers within the US.
World artist administration firm Three Six Zero has acquired the enduring SARM Music Village in London.
The recording facility, positioned in Notting Hill, West London, homes six studios (generally often known as ‘SARM Studios’) and a collection of purpose-built workplaces. It had been owned, till now, by Grammy-winning producer Trevor Horn.
SARM Music Village has hosted studio classes from famous person artists together with Paul McCartney, Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Madonna, One Route, Stormzy, Lana Del Rey, Paolo Nutini, Charli XCX, Mark Ronson, and Florence & The Machine.
The Walt Disney Firm Asia Pacific and Korean music large HYBE have signed a worldwide content material deal.
The settlement contains the worldwide distribution of 5 main content material titles from HYBE, which embrace two unique sequence that includes the corporate’s flagship Ok-pop group, BTS.
Within the press launch asserting its strategic collaboration with HYBE, Disney says that it’s going to introduce a sequence of recent titles from HYBE over the following few years, “because the leisure platform continues to provide high-quality content material based mostly on its music and artists’ IPs”.
