The deal includes a joint venture allowing Blake Shelton to continue to earn money from his music post-sale.
Blake Shelton
has sold the ownership of his commercially-released master recordings from 2001-2019 to Influence Media Partners, the company announced Tuesday . Over his career, Shelton has enjoyed 72 Hot Country Songs entries, including 14 No. 1s and 33 top 10s; 58 Country Airplay entries, including 28 No. 1s and 36 top 10s; two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200; and seven No. 1 albums on Top Country Albums. The catalog sale includes tracks like “Boys ‘Round Here,” “Honeybee,” “Nobody But You” , “God’s Country” and “Austin,” among others.
WMG still owns the Shelton recorded music catalog, but the albums’ ownership is slated to begin reverting to the singer in the near term, according to a source close to the dealBillboard. to provide $750 million to fund the company’s Influence X Music Fund II to buy high-value music catalogs; the deal also allowed WMG and BlackRock to participate as investors in Influence Media.
reported that Influence Media had deployed about $300 million of its $750 million in funding for the purchase of musical works including select copyrights from songwriters like
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