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Why Music Back Catalogs Have Become a Red-Hot Asset Class

Odd Lots

Bloomberg

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Bob Dylan did it last year. Shakira did it in January. More and more famous musicians are selling off the rights to their back catalogs to investors. But why now? Why is there so much demand for this asset? On the latest Odd Lots, we speak with Alaister Moughan, an independent music valuation expert, about why this booming market is happening now.

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0:54.4

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Adlots podcast. I'm Joe Wyzenthal.

1:00.7

And I'm Tracy Alloway. So Tracy, we don't really talk about it that much on the show, but

1:07.1

if there's one thing I know about you and your career, you're very into sort of like

1:13.2

weird asset classes, weird income streams that get packaged and resolved, a lifelong fascination

1:20.4

of yours. Yeah, I guess you could broadly say I'm interested in the financialization of various

1:29.4

assets, but in recent years, there have been some pretty amazing ones. I think one of the weird

1:35.4

things about this is that nowadays, when you hear it, it doesn't actually sound that weird, but

1:40.3

when these things were happening just a couple of years ago, it was really strange. So I remember,

1:44.7

for instance, there was a solar panel, securitization a few years ago. Everyone thought that was nuts,

1:51.5

because bankers were securitizing sunshine into an investible bond. But nowadays, that seems

1:58.9

very, very normal. And then some of the other ones that have come up are franchise rights and sort

2:04.7

of brand values from restaurants. We've had a bunch of those. And the latest one that everyone

2:11.6

is kind of going nuts over is music rights. Yeah, exactly, right. So basically anything that

2:18.0

throws off some sort of predictable or semi-predictable or future cash flows can theoretically be turned

2:26.7

into a product, into a financial product that can be sold. And of course, one thing that we know

2:33.0

throws off cash is music rights. And so this year, there's been a bunch, but a couple artists

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