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Music as an Investment – part 7: An Explanation
The boom in the music rights market continued in 2023. In January of the new year, Primary Wave announced that it had acquired all the...
Peter Tschmuck
Jan 29, 202414 min read
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Music as an Investment – part 6: Reservoir Media Management
Reservoir Media Management is a new type of music publisher, launched in 2021 through the financial vehicle of a Special Purpose...
Peter Tschmuck
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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Music as an Investment – part 5: The rise and fall of the Hipgnosis Songs Fund
For several years, Hipgnosis made headlines with spectacular acquisitions of music rights catalogues worth hundreds of millions of...
Peter Tschmuck
Jan 16, 202410 min read
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Music as an Investment – part 4: Round Hill Music
In 2010, former hedge fund manager Josh Gruss founded the music publishing company Round Hill Music in New York City together with Neil...
Peter Tschmuck
Jun 26, 202311 min read
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Music as an Investment – Part 3: Primary Wave
Primary Wave is a new type of music publisher founded in New York City in January 2006 by former Virgin Records CEO, Larry Mestel....
Peter Tschmuck
May 1, 202312 min read
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Music as an Investment – Part 2: BMG re-enters the music rights business
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) is an interesting case of a company exiting the music business in the 2000s and re-entering it in 2009 to...
Peter Tschmuck
Apr 4, 202311 min read
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