{"id":11017,"date":"2022-08-26T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2022-08-26T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:21:58","slug":"firms-compete-for-400-million-pink-floyd-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2022\/08\/firms-compete-for-400-million-pink-floyd-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms compete for \u00a3400 million Pink Floyd catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculations we reported on in May (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2022\/05\/report-pink-floyd-considers-selling-catalog\/\">&#8220;Report: Pink Floyd considers selling catalog&#8221;<\/a>) that <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> is considering selling its music catalog appear to be true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Times<\/strong> reports a number of entities are competing for ownership of the band&#8217;s songs as well as master recordings. The report states the band is seeking \u00a3400 million, the equivalent of approximately $470 million US.<\/p>\n<p>Private equity group <strong>Blackstone<\/strong> is said to be in the running, as well as <strong>Sony Music Entertainment<\/strong>, <strong>Warner Music Group Corp.<\/strong>, <strong>BMG<\/strong> and <strong>Primary Wave<\/strong>. Sony and Warner already distribute some of Floyd\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Bloomberg<\/strong>, the deal would also include the right to create official band merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>If the band strikes a deal, it would be one of the largest transactions in music history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculations we reported on in May (&#8220;Report: Pink Floyd considers selling catalog&#8221;) that Pink Floyd is considering selling its music catalog appear to be true. The Times reports a number of entities are competing for ownership of the band&#8217;s songs as well as master recordings. The report states the band is seeking \u00a3400 million, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11018,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}