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Sony spent roughly USD $911 million on music catalog acquisitions within the 10 months main as much as February, 2022.
The stat was lately revealed by Sony Corp‘s Government Deputy President and CFO, Hiroki Totoki, on an investor presentation seen by Music Enterprise Worldwide.
Someplace round half of that $911 million determine would have gone on Sony’s double-acquisition of Bruce Springsteen’s publishing catalog and his recorded music catalog, as introduced in December final 12 months.
Sources counsel the value of that double deal was round $550 million, though not all of that was Sony’s cash: the main music firm was supported by further funds from Eldridge Industries within the publishing aspect of the Springsteen buyout.
It’s attention-grabbing to notice simply how rather more cash Sony has been throwing down within the catalog funding house versus what Common Music Group spent in calendar 2021.
As lately reported by MBW, Common has confirmed that it spent $459 million on music catalog investments in 2021.
That quantity was down 58% year-on-year, though UMG has in Q1 2022 picked up its expenditure on catalogs – together with a ≈$300 million deal for Sting’s music catalog, plus a deal for Neil Diamond’s music and recorded music catalogs.
Hiroki Totoki informed Sony Corp traders in February that roughly 100 billion Yen (round $911 million at annual alternate charges) in music catalog acquisitions had been allotted to Sony’s working money circulate in its monetary numbers for the April 2021 – February 2022 interval.
This funding in artist/author catalogs, he clarified, was separate from different investments and acquisitions Sony had made in music over the earlier 12 months. Such offers embrace the $430 million the corporate paid to accumulate AWAL from Kobalt Music Group in Might 2021, and the $255 million it paid to accumulate Brazilian label Som Livre.
In his presentation, Hiroki Totoki confirmed the under chart that broke down the approximate 850 billion Yen ($7.74 billion) expenditure that Sony made in non-music-catalog strategic investments in the course of the April 2021 – February 2022 interval.
This chart seems to point that Sony’s (non-catalog) music investments represented round 18% of this cash, price within the area of $1.4 billion.
Talking on February 2, Hiroki Totoki clarified that the 850 billion in offers to which he referred included these “which have been determined, however not closed”.
Along with shopping for the Bruce Springsteen catalog, Sony’s 2021 catalog investments included it spending north of $150 million on Bob Dylan’s recordings catalog final summer time.
As well as, the corporate introduced in March final 12 months that it had purchased Paul Simon’s publishing rights in a deal rumored to be price upwards of $200 million.
Main non-music acquisitions executed by Sony Corp previously 12 months embrace the agency’s $3.6 billion deal to accumulate video video games maker, Bungie, introduced in January this 12 months.
In December final 12 months, Sony Photos confirmed it had agreed a merger with Zee Leisure in India, to create that nation’s second-largest leisure community.
The merger resulted in a three way partnership firm by which Sony Photos Networks India (SPNI) is the 51% shareholder.
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