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Bob Dylan’s catalog of past and future recorded music was sold to Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced Monday, over a year after the legendary musician’s songwriting catalog was sold to Universal Music Publishing Group.
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The deal, which was finalized in July 2021, includes Dylan’s entire catalog of recorded music since 1962—39 studio albums and 16 “bootlegs,” according to កម្មវិធី Billboard, along with the rights to future re-issues of his work, the company said.
Sony paid between $150 and $200 million, anonymous sources told ភាពខុសគ្នានិង កម្មវិធី Billboard reported the recordings are worth over $200 million and generate $16 million in revenue a year, though Sony did not say how much they paid for them.
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“Columbia Records and Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records,” Dylan, 80, said in a statement, referring to Sony’s subsidiary, the record label he signed to when he first started his music career. “I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong.”
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In December 2020, Dylan sold his songwriting catalog to Universal Music Publishing group, a deal that was rumored to go for between $250 and $300 million, according to the កាសែត New York Times and Bloomberg, making it one of the largest sales of its kind. Recording catalogs are often referred to as an artist’s “masters” and are the funnel through which artists are usually able to collect royalties from their music, according to Pitchfork. Songwriting catalogs deal with the actual crafting of the songs, like the notes and the lyrics, and come into play when another artist wants to cover their work, for example.
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The last few years have seen a plethora of music legends cashing in on their recording and songwriting catalogs. In April, Paul Simon’s song catalog was also sold to Sony for $250 million. Two weeks ago, David Bowie’s entire music catalog sold to Warner Chappell Music for over $250 million, several news outlets reported. Stevie Nicks and Neil Young have also sold stakes in their catalogs.
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/01/24/bob-dylan-sells-recording-catalog-to-sony-in-major-deal-one-year-after-he-sold-songwriting-catalog/