Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey were living in style on Tuesday night as they ventured out in New York City to celebrate the sale of his entire music ...

Hipgnosis Song Management offer investors the chance to earn royalties from the work of a diverse range of artists such as Barry Manilow and Beyonce. Stealing the sartorial spotlight from Hailey Bieber can be difficult, to near impossible. The soft pink pick in question hails from cult favourite CHERRY LA, which is instantly identifiable by its logo embroidery. Or get inspired in our edit... Click through to make it yours here! At the time, the singer was reportedly in negotiations with Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital in a deal, which would include both his publishing and recorded music catalog. The big ziti! 'Scooter Braun has helped him build a magnificent catalog, and it’s a pleasure to welcome Justin and his incredible songs and recordings to the Hipgnosis family.' Feeling good: Justin and Hailey were seen in NYC earlier in the day for the first time since he sold his entire music catalog for $200million On the town: Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey were living in style on Tuesday night as they ventured out in New York City to celebrate the sale of his entire music catalogue for $200 million She had on a white button-up shirt under it that was covered up, and she complemented the jacket with her pointy-toed black heels. He wore the jacket over a white shirt and contrasted it with black pants covered in large white polka dots.

The pop superstar joins artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young in selling the rights to his songs.

“And he is de-risking his future and giving himself an independence and a cushion that most people in the world would envy.” “They become part of the fabric of society and they live on forever.” “But streaming has changed all of that and it has created a complete new economy for the music industry – and the music industry’s best years are in front of it.

Justin Bieber is not exactly breaking new ground in selling the rights to his work to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for $200m (£162m), but what is eyebrow-raising ...

The Bieber deal is unlikely to be the last done by Hipgnosis Songs Capital. Hipgnosis values its catalogue at $2.2bn (£1.78bn) but the company currently has a stock market valuation of just over £1bn. Warner Music, meanwhile, bought the publishing rights to Bowie's back catalogue for $250m in January last year. For example, Sony of Japan last year bought the rights to Springsteen's back catalogue, while US-based Universal Music bought Dylan's works at the end of 2020. That enabled him to buy the rights to yet more songs. In 1997, he and his management team came up with the idea of selling asset-backed securities to investors, paying them a return from a share of his future royalties for the next 10 years.

Back in 2010 Justin teamed up with Ludacris to bring us the iconic 'Baby'. The song was a huge hit with fans, charting within the Top Five in both UK and US ...

After performing 49 dates across the USA and Canada, Justin announced that the subsequent [performances would be postponed](http://www.planetradio.co.uk/mfr//entertainment/celebrity/justin-bieber-face-paralysis/) due to his health. In 2021, Justin teamed up with Australian rapper, singer, and songwriter The Kid Laroi on their HUGE track 'Stay'. MFR is the home of Dan & Grace In The Morning, Jodie McCluskey and Martin Morrison.](http://mfr.listennow.link/57455) Accompanied with a home-made music video from the pair, featuring a plethora of famous faces and fans, the song made the Top Five in the UK Singles Chart, hitting the Number One spot in the US. Later in 2019, Justin teamed up with country-pop duo Dan + Shay with the tuneful '10,000 Hours'. The song hit the Number One spot in several countries across the world, including the UK and US. [Nicki Minaj](http://www.planetradio.co.uk/mfr//entertainment/music/nicki-minaj-collaborations/). Justin teamed up with Post Malone back in 2016 with 'Deja Vu'. In 2011, Justin teamed up with music giant Mariah Carey in a revamp of the timeless classic 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'. The pair then teamed up again in 2013 with 'All Around the World'. [Justin Timberlake](http://www.planetradio.co.uk/mfr//entertainment/celebrity/justin-timberlake/) and Shakira reportedly involved in deals to sell their rights. The 'Sorry' hitmaker, who released his [sixth album 'Justice'](http://www.planetradio.co.uk/mfr//entertainment/music/justin-bieber-justice/) in 2021, has not publicly commented on the deal yet, but many sources are reporting that he received an alleged $200 million from Hipgnosis Songs Capital.

Pop star sold his music publishing and recording catalogue shares to Hipgnosis Songs Capital, the company said.

Hipgnosis Songs Capital is a $1bn venture between financial giant Blackstone and the British Hipgnosis Song Management. Recording rights govern reproduction and distribution. Pop juggernaut Justin Bieber has sold his music publishing and recording catalogue shares to the Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital for $200m, the company said, marking the industry’s latest blockbuster rights deal.

Justin Bieber has sold his share of the rights to his music to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for a reported $200m (£162m). The firm now owns the pop star's stake ...

"In the wider music market, people continue to listen to and pay for music irrespective of today's cost of living challenges with annual audio streams in the US passing the one trillion mark for the first time," he said. In December, Mercuriadis called the share price situation a "disappointment", but said he believed in the company's long-term profitability. [building up a catalogue of hit songs](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48769620) and inviting big institutional investors to share in the proceeds. Justin Bieber has sold his share of the rights to his music to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for a reported $200m (£162m). He said Bieber's music was "arguably the definitive soundtrack of the streaming revolution", with 13 songs that have each achieved more than a billion streams on platforms like YouTube and Spotify. Springsteen received a reported $500m (£376m) for the sale of his life's work.

Hipgnosis said Bieber, one of the youngest artists to cash in on their catalogues amid a boom in music licensing deals, had made a huge impact on global ...

It was propelled by the pandemic, when many artists lost their source of income because they could no longer tour or perform, and investors flush with cash because of few investment opportunities in a low-interest-rate environment backed big deals to acquire popular music as a way to secure regular income derived from their copyrights. “We haven’t seen the terms of this deal [between Bieber and Hipgnosis], but often, assigning your music rights means losing your say over when and where that music is used,” she said. Funds such as Hipgnosis would acquire artists’ catalogues, bundle them together and pay dividends to shareholders off the royalties derived from their ownership of the song rights. The owners of both copyrights need to sign off on any deal to license the song. Under the terms of their agreement, Hipgnosis acquired Bieber’s publishing copyrights. “The impact of Justin Bieber on global culture over the last 14 years has truly been remarkable,” said Merck Mercuriadis, the chief executive of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, in a news release. Blackstone also bought an ownership stake in Hipgnosis Song Management. But the acquisition of Bieber’s music rights stands out among recent such deals because of Bieber’s age, says Richard Baskind, the head of the music department at the London-based law firm Simons Muirhead Burton. “They are being offered more in these deals than they would see in their lifetime if they retained and continued exercising these rights themselves. Accruing money generated from music can be a slow process and an administrative burden, with many royalty collection societies only paying out a few times a year.” The biggest deals have typically involved older artists who are selling the rights to decades of their life’s work. Justin Bieber has sold the rights to his music to a Blackstone-backed investment fund — becoming the latest, and one of the youngest, artists to cash in on their catalogues amid a boom in music licensing deals.

These sales, which have grown in popularity in recent years, are more typical for musicians at the end of their careers, with their legacies already in ...

He got [Lyme disease](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars-whove-battled-lyme-disease-justin-bieber-bella-hadid-more/) and has had [a couple](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/10/justin-bieber-hailey-baldwin-church-ceremony-upstate-canada) wedding [ceremonies](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/10/justin-bieber-hailey-baldwin-wedding-photos) (to one person—Hailey Bieber). [peed in that bucket](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2013/12/charity-water-justin-bieber). There was the thing with the [monkey](https://people.com/pets/justin-bieber-opens-up-about-his-confiscated-monkey-it-was-the-farthest-thing-from-fine/). That interest itself might have been driven by that warm feeling of good music during the hardest pandemic years, and also companies like Spotify, which have provided new avenues for the tippy-top of successful musicians to make money. Hipgnosis also has Barry Manilow and the other Justin, Justin Timberlake. The sales from legacy musicians get a ton of headlines, but Hipgnosis and Vine Alternative Investments have snapped up the catalogs of younger musicians like Shakira and Calvin Harris, respectively. Catalog sales seem to attract musicians at the end of their careers, ones who can look back on their body of work and say, sure, use those songs in car commercials, or whatever. People like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Paul Simon, the Beach Boys, Neil Young, who have sold their catalogs, or large portions of them. Neither side will confirm how much, but the catalog is grade A, pure American-by-way-of-Canada pop. The estimate is just above $200 million, per “Sorry”? “Baby”?

Justin Bieber is the latest musician to sell the rights to his entire catalog of music. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Billboard music publishing reporter ...

The Canadian-American pop star's six albums, including his most recent album “Justice,” are part of the massive catalog sale deal with Hipgnosis, a U.K-based ...

A song or album that sells more than a million copies receives platinum certification, while works that surpass two million sales become multiplatinum. Bieber’s publishing copyrights, songwriter’s ownership, master recordings and all rights of his entire catalog of recordings made through 2021 are now owned by Hipgnosis. Hipgnosis [acquired Shakira’s catalog](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-shakira-30e5d4736c1927fe4f02c95fd856f055) in 2018.

The Canadian-American pop star's six albums, including his most recent album “Justice,” are part of the massive catalog sale deal with Hipgnosis, a U.K-based ...

A song or album that sells more than a million copies receives platinum certification, while works that surpass two million sales become multiplatinum. Bieber's publishing copyrights, songwriter's ownership, master recordings and all rights of his entire catalog of recordings made through 2021 are now owned by Hipgnosis. Hipgnosis [acquired Shakira's catalog](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-shakira-30e5d4736c1927fe4f02c95fd856f055) in 2018. Mercuriadis said that Bieber is a defining artist in the streaming age and “the acquisition ranks among the biggest deals ever made for an artist under the age of 70.” “Justin is truly a once in a generation artist and that is reflected and acknowledged by the magnitude of this deal.” Scooter Braun, Bieber’s longtime manager, said in a statement Tuesday. [Sting](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-bob-dylan-stevie-nicks-paul-simon-911cda08593588e06ec16e5f983cb5a4), [Bob Dylan](https://apnews.com/article/bob-dylan-music-catalog-umg-7748e53ffd61e8fe6652a1b6af82ed20) and Shakira have in recent years sold rights to their catalogs for massive sums, but at 28 Bieber is the youngest superstar singer to do so.

Justin Bieber has reportedly netted $200 million after selling his 15-year music catalogue – following in the footsteps of artists including Bob Dylan, ...

In today's newsletter: The Canadian singer is the latest among many stars to give up the rights to their music in exchanging for untold sums – but will it ...

In spite of Brexit, the pandemic and now a cost of living crisis, trade is booming, with co-founder Ian Stirling telling her that the business – the third distillery to open in the city in recent years – sees itself as part of a “new wave”. Toby Moses, head of newsletters [Heather Stewart went to](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/25/the-job-is-not-human-uk-retail-warehouse-staff-describe-gruelling-work)Coventry to speak to the Amazon workers striking for the first time. Nimo [Jonathan Freedland’s warm recollection](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/25/ian-black-obituary)of Ian Black, the Guardian’s former Europe, diplomatic and Middle East editor who died this week, is a beautiful tribute to a journalist who managed to cover the most thorny of issues in the most elegant way imaginable: “Even if [Jews and Palestinians] rarely agreed on much else, they found common ground on this: when it came to coverage of the Middle East, you could trust Ian Black.” Toby [Anita Asante writes](http://theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/25/coaching-has-given-me-months-of-headaches-but-also-bags-of-joy-anita-asante) about the joy and hardships that come with coaching, as an assistant at Bristol City. Similarly, at Scotland’s oldest working distillery, Glenturret, managing director John Laurie echoed the sentiment that it is a golden age for the production of scotch: “There are 122 distilleries in Japan and it’s still one of our strongest markets. [Phoebe Jane Boyd reflects](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/25/brendan-fraser-fat-suit-the-whale-tragic-funny)on this flimsy Hollywood “progress” after Brendan Fraser earned an Oscar nomination for his fat-suited performance in The Whale. While there might be merit in wanting to invest in artists in an industry that has historically exploited them, ultimately it seems likely the rate of growth and the size of these deals are not sustainable. Conversely, it also might mean that publishers who are spending huge sums of money on these catalogues will have less money to invest “in the short-term on the new stars of tomorrow,” Eamonn notes. After five years of investment and disruption, 2023 could be the year that their chickens come home to roost – are they going to sell, or will they stick it out and hold on to – and work on – these catalogues for 50 or 60 years? In 2022, that number declined but was still steady, at [9.2%.](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/2022-us-year-end-music-report-luminate-top-album-bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-1235196736/) And with TikTok propelling older tunes to the top of the charts, it’s no surprise that people are combing through back catalogues to find hits from previous decades. The severity of some of the claims and the extent of the investigation have led to doubts from government insiders about how long Raab can stay in his position. But the sheer size of the deals have prompted many to ask whether they are overvalued or hyper-inflated.