Music Business News: United Kingdom News After $1.5bn takeover proposal, Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s board tells Blackstone: We’re listening…Bring on a firm offer, HSF's board tells private investment giant News Strap in. Blackstone is ready to bid $1.5 billion for Hipgnosis Songs Fund.To paraphrase Pink Floyd, Will the sun (Concord Chorus) be eclipsed by the moon (Blackstone)? News Concord, financed by Apollo, makes $1.4bn cash bid to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s assetsBut will Merck Mercuriadis and Blackstone go quietly? Don't bet on that. News Harri Davies appointed Head of A&R at RCA Records UKHe most recently held the position of Senior Director A&R at Concord Music Publishing in the UK News Secretly Distribution hires Warner Music’s Rich Thane as Associate Director of Artist & Label StrategyThane is also the founder of music magazine-turned-music company The Line of Best Fit. News Private equity firms Blackstone and CVC eye European festivals organizer Superstruct (report)Conde Nast, KKR and EQT are also interested in the events company, a news report suggests News TikTok strikes global ticketing partnership with AXSThe feature is live in the US, UK, Sweden and Australia News Warner Chappell Music taps ICE as sole digital licensing partner in Europe, Middle East, AfricaLaunched by the UK’s PRS for Music, Sweden’s STIM and Germany’s GEMA, ICE represents 330,000 rightsholders1 2 … 431 Next
News After $1.5bn takeover proposal, Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s board tells Blackstone: We’re listening…Bring on a firm offer, HSF's board tells private investment giant
News Strap in. Blackstone is ready to bid $1.5 billion for Hipgnosis Songs Fund.To paraphrase Pink Floyd, Will the sun (Concord Chorus) be eclipsed by the moon (Blackstone)?
News Concord, financed by Apollo, makes $1.4bn cash bid to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s assetsBut will Merck Mercuriadis and Blackstone go quietly? Don't bet on that.
News Harri Davies appointed Head of A&R at RCA Records UKHe most recently held the position of Senior Director A&R at Concord Music Publishing in the UK
News Secretly Distribution hires Warner Music’s Rich Thane as Associate Director of Artist & Label StrategyThane is also the founder of music magazine-turned-music company The Line of Best Fit.
News Private equity firms Blackstone and CVC eye European festivals organizer Superstruct (report)Conde Nast, KKR and EQT are also interested in the events company, a news report suggests
News TikTok strikes global ticketing partnership with AXSThe feature is live in the US, UK, Sweden and Australia
News Warner Chappell Music taps ICE as sole digital licensing partner in Europe, Middle East, AfricaLaunched by the UK’s PRS for Music, Sweden’s STIM and Germany’s GEMA, ICE represents 330,000 rightsholders