If the recent big-money acquisitions are anything to go by, catalogue – both recording and publishing – has never been valued higher. Hipgnosis is splashing hundreds of millions of dollars on the composition rights of big-name songwriters as fast as it can raise the money, and the $300m sale of Taylor Swift’s recordings to a private equity company is an intriguingly murky high-stakes tale.
Source: Experts panel: the secrets to unlocking the value of music catalogues