On the latest Music Business Worldwide (MBW) podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Sherrese Clarke Soares, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners. HarbourView has earned plenty of headlines since it was founded in 2021. Under Soares, the company has acquired premium recorded music and publishing assets performed by stars such as Wiz Khalifa, Nelly, Lady A, Florida Georgia Line and the late, great Christine McVie. One of HarbourView’s biggest deals to date is its reported $325 million purchase of SoundHouse Acquisitions LLC in 2022, a catalog that includes royalty streams for songs by artists such as Tech N9ne, George Jones and Trey Songz. HarbourView has made all of these acquisitions with the financial backing of Apollo Global Management, Inc., who partnered with Soares to launch the firm. (Apollo recently partnered with Sony Music Group via a $700 million investment which is believed to have partly funded Sony's buyout of Queen's catalog.) Over the past year, HarbourView has expanded its remit beyond music into other entertainment verticals, a good example being its investment in content company Mucho Mas Media, which produced the Netflix hit The Long Game. (It's also continued to buy in music: subsequent to Ingham's interview with Soares, Harbourview confirmed its acquisition of a select publishing catalog from Grammy-winning James Fauntleroy.) In March 2024, HarbourView announced a new source of funding for future deals, having secured $500 million in debt from KKR via a private securitization of its catalog of music royalties. Sherrese Clarke Soares is well-versed in the financialization of entertainment rights. Prior to starting HarbourView, between 2019 and 2021 she led Tempo Music, a pioneering music acquisition vehicle created with and bankrolled by Providence Equity Partners. Before that, she spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley, where – between 2017 and 2019 – she founded and led the development of the firm's entertainment, media and sports structured solutions platform. On this podcast, Ingham talks to Soares about HarbourView’s ambitions in the music and entertainment space, the apparent recent slowdown in streaming growth, the impact of elevated interest rates on music M&A, and much more. Read abridged/edited highlights from their conversation, or listen to the full podcast, here... Thanks to Voly Entertainment for the support. #Podcasts #musicbusiness #musicindustry
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Today’s entertainment market is increasingly global. The music industry risks hampering its future potential by thinking too local, too often. Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is a free and in-depth news, jobs and insight platform for the music industry in every corner of the earth
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- 2015
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Employees at Music Business Worldwide (MBW)
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Stephane Prin
Artist, Band member, Composer, Producer chez Independant
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Daniel Tencer
Reporter and editor at Music Business Worldwide. Previous gigs include MoneyWise, HuffPost and Postmedia. Twitter @danieltencer
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Rebecca Ingham
Operations Director at Music Business Worldwide (MBW)
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S. C. Lee
Administrator at Music Business Worldwide (MBW)
Updates
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Congrats to Jamie Krents who has been promoted to CEO and President of Verve Label Group; and to Dawn Olejar who has been named Chief Operating Officer. #Musicindustry #executiveappointments
Jamie Krents promoted to CEO and President of Verve Label Group; Dawn Olejar upped to Chief Operating Officer
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Congrats to Mary Catherine Kinney who has been appointed EVP of Artist & Label Strategy at Republic Corps. #musicbusiness #Republic
Mary Catherine Kinney appointed EVP of Artist & Label Strategy at Republic Corps
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A blockbuster legal dispute is brewing in Hollywood. Talent giant CAA (Creative Artists Agency) has filed a lawsuit against management firm Range Media Partners this week, accusing it of “stealing confidential information” ahead of the latter company’s launch in 2020. #Talentagencies #musicindustry #musicbusiness
Range Media Partners sued by talent giant CAA for alleged theft of confidential information
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This week's Job of the Week is for Closer Music who are looking for a Music Licensing Manager. You must have 2-5+ years of work experience working on IP, content and services negotiation, music licensing (and pitching) at a major or indie label, streaming platform, advertising agency, law firm, media company, or in music supervision. Based remotely. #musicindustry #musicjobs #jobsearch #jobsearching #jobhunt #jobhunting
Closer Music – Music Licensing Manager (US)
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"It’s not just about managing established stars; our bread and butter is taking an artist with raw potential and helping them build a career from A to B, and now we’re focused on taking them from B to Z." Trailblazers is an MBW interview series that turns the spotlight on music entrepreneurs with the potential to become the global business power players of tomorrow. This time, we meet music and tech entrepreneurs Chief Zaruk and Simon Tikhman, co-founders and CEOs of fast-rising music company The Core Entertainment, which launched The Core Records in partnership with Universal Music Group last year. Thanks to TuneCore for the support. #Countrymusic #musicindustry #musicbusiness
‘Clinging to old-school methods of breaking artists is holding the industry back. It’s like, do you want to be Blockbuster or Netflix?’
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The deal is done: Pink Floyd has this week agreed to sell their recorded music catalog to Sony Music in an agreement worth approximately USD $400 million, according to sources. #PinkFloyd #Sonymusic #musicbusiness
Sony strikes deal to acquire Pink Floyd catalog in $400 million deal, say sources
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It’s true: MBW has confirmed that TikTok recently scrapped re-licensing discussions with Merlin, despite the indie group’s current deal with the ByteDance platform expiring on October 31. The reason is something of a shock: as industry discussion over streaming fraud grows ever-louder, TikTok has called into question the legitimacy of music delivered to its platform by certain Merlin members. #TikTok
TikTok: We shut down Merlin negotiation over fears about streaming fraud
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Congrats to Alen Torosyan who has been appointed General Manager of Warner Music Emerging Markets Warner Music Group #Warnermusic
Alen Torosyan promoted to General Manager of Warner Music Emerging Markets
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From TikTok Music's shutdown to Atlantic Music Group's new leadership team... don't miss MBW's Weekly Round-Up, where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. Thanks to Centtrip Ltd for the support. #TikTok #musicbusiness #musicindustry
From TikTok Music’s shutdown to Atlantic Music Group’s new leadership team… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
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