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Hipgnosis Songs Fund

  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Blackstone ditches Hipgnosis brand and renames $3bn music business ‘Recognition’

    Investment group with rights to songs by Shakira will be ‘fundamentally different’ under unified structure

    Shakira performs during her ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Ya Lloran’ (Women No Longer Cry) world tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Barry Manilow countersues Hipgnosis in bonus dispute

    American singer files lawsuit claiming London-based music rights owner owes him $1.5mn

    Barry Manilow performs on stage, wearing a shiny black jacket, black pants, and holding a microphone. He stands in front of a grand piano, with blue stage lights illuminating the background.
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Hipgnosis sues Barry Manilow over bonus payments

    London-based music rights owner acquired singer’s catalogue in 2020

    Barry Manilow performs in Palm Springs, California, in March
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Hipgnosis founder Mercuriadis to step down after Blackstone deal

    Chair of group set up to manage music rights will exit when $1.6bn purchase is completed

    Merck Mercuriadis
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Blackstone switches to ‘best and final’ offer for Hipgnosis

    US private equity group moves to stop hedge funds with stakes in music rights owner from pushing for higher price

    Shakira performing onstage
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Blackstone sweetens Hipgnosis offer as part of revised bid

    Private equity group planning to change offer to a ‘scheme of arrangement’ that would ease takeover

    Blackstone’s headquarters in New York
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Media
    Blackstone in pole position over $1.6bn Hipgnosis takeover

    US group Concord walks away from bidding war for London-listed music rights group

    An illustration with a pair of headphones in front of a Hipgnosis logo
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Blackstone strikes $1.6bn deal for Hipgnosis as bidding war escalates

    Latest offer from US private equity group wins backing of UK-listed music rights owner

    Shakira, while singing, crowd-surfs as she is carried by audience members at a concert
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Concord tops Blackstone in bidding war for Hipgnosis

    Offer for music rights group rises to $1.5bn as Apollo-backed investor beats rival’s bid

    Shakira performs on stage
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    Blackstone bid for Hipgnosis receives backing from board

    Effort to trump offer by Concord Chorus could trigger battle for music rights investor

    Red Hot Chili Peppers in concert
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Hipgnosis agrees $1.4bn sale to Concord Chorus

    Struggling music rights business strikes deal with US rival

    Shakira performs with Bizarrap at Coachella on Friday
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Hipgnosis cuts value of music portfolio by over a quarter

    Company says it will not pay a dividend ‘for the foreseeable future’

    Bassist Flea and singer Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers perform
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Lex
    Why Hipgnosis investors can’t agree on the price of a song Premium content

    Changes in taste and the way audiences listen to music can alter valuations

    Rapper 50 Cent
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Media
    Hipgnosis Songs Fund adviser offers to drop clause on music rights

    Merck Mercuriadis in battle to stay on at investment trust that owns thousands of songs

    Debbie Harry, the lead singer of Blondie
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Hipgnosis warns investors on asset value

    Music rights owner says valuation should be treated with ‘higher degree of caution’

    Neil Young performing at the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in 2019
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Lex
    Hipgnosis: debt pressure and asset sales will proceed along parallel lines Premium content

    The UK investment trust may have little option but to begin selling its catalogue

    Blondie singer Debbie Harry in 1980
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Hipgnosis Songs Fund delays results over asset valuation concerns

    London-listed group says independent valuer’s figure ‘materially higher’ than numbers implied by recent industry deals

    A headset in front of a Hipgnosis logo
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    Hipgnosis seeks new auditor as it faces legal action

    PwC refused to reapply for the job at troubled music rights investor

    Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    Lex
    Hipgnosis/SMIT: volatile valuations leave trusts livin’ on a prayer Premium content

    Ensuring valuations are detailed, conservative and fully independent is a lesson to be learnt

    Recording artist Jon Bon Jovi pictured in 2012
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Hipgnosis shareholders vote against continuation of UK-listed music investment trust

    Troubled company that owns song rights for artists including the Red Hot Chili Peppers must now review its options

    Merck Mercuriadis
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Due Diligence
    How a music mogul’s royalties bet got funked up

    Plus, the Hess dynasty tale and AirAsia taxis down Spac runway

    Due diligence logo
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Hipgnosis board under pressure as music pioneer faces crucial vote

    Group battles to persuade investors to continue backing its status as an investment trust

    Merck Mercuriadis
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    Hipgnosis launches strategic review ahead of crucial vote

    Investment trust to look at all options including its management arrangements

    Merck Mercuriadis
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    Lex
    Hipgnosis: continuation vote should be turned into protest

    Scrapping of interim dividend sends depressed share price to all-time low

    Recording artist Barry Manilow
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    FT Alphaville
    Dividends are Hipgnosis’s latest self-inflicted catastrophe

    Three’s not the magic number

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