celeb news Katy Perry sells her music catalog for $225M

[Anti-Hero]

1 hour ago, LastGreatBloodline said:

I know its huge money but I dont get why she would give away her entire career. She already made a bank in recent years with idol + her business endeavors, plus its her intelectual propriety and she would continue to profit from recurrents for years to come. 

I think Orlando needs money now cause his career is fading 

[Vermillion]

3 minutes ago, Anti-Hero said:

I don't have the data, so I just assumed with all the money and resources they have investors are smart with their investments.

I don't have the stats to support my argument either, but if we're guessing, as everyone is here apparently, my bets on the cash-out.

 

And it's not even close.

 

The stats being thrown around here are from her peak and aren't factoring in depreciation since then, regardless of new licensing deals.

[JawBreaker]

1 hour ago, favorite crime said:

It doesn't make sense for an artist that's past their peak to not sell their music catalogue. All Katy loses is the right to choose where her music gets licensed but she'll easily make more from this deal than she would ever make from her catalogue in the next 50+ years. Especially considering her music is not exactly gaining popularity with time like say Lana

Honestly yeah I agree with this. 

This seems like the best decision for artist like Katy but not artist like Taylor where her catalog gets way more stronger with time. Shes making $80M+ a year from Spotify alone currently. 

 

[gagacasanova]

Well gah damn

[Anti-Hero]

1 hour ago, Mystical said:

So her family is basically set for generations, good for ha   Not every artist is supposed to be obsessed with owning their masters  

Katy does not own her masters so stop throwing this subtle shade. 

 

This is about Katy's publishing rights and royalties from her masters.

[mypaintoyou]

2 hours ago, chiliam said:

 i mean she has hits, she has classics, but still 225m is insane for her catalouge

so Katy`s 1st five album almost valued the same as Taylor 1st six albums ( it was 300m but it`s for the whole Big Machine label which i think Taylor`s part is around 250m)

 

Yes but if Taylor ever sold your catalogues it’d be like over one BILLION

[Abracadabra]

3 hours ago, Badgalbriel said:

Well, she had to do it eventually. Her music career is just not making any more money. 

If that was the case her stake in her masters wouldn't be worth $225M

[mypaintoyou]

Idk why they didn’t Jsut buy debut to prism 

 

like why buy those two other albums that don’t bring any money, I just feel like it’s a waste of money.

[perfect blue]

These companies are privy to all the financial details and have teams of professionals performing deal valuation analysis. I’d trust their valuation over an expired twink’s hunch on ATRL.net.

[FENTY.]

6 minutes ago, JawBreaker said:

Honestly yeah I agree with this. 

This seems like the best decision for artist like Katy but not artist like Taylor where her catalog gets way more stronger with time. Shes making $80M+ a year from Spotify alone currently. 

 

Streaming royalties in 2022: $28.9M

 

https://celebrityaccess.com/2023/01/03/taylor-swift-tops-billboards-music-money-makers-list-without-touring/

[Anti-Hero]

1 hour ago, FENTY. said:

So now she’ll be making money from songwriting credits only as if she gave these songs to other artists? 
 

Thats crazy

I think she also sold her publishing rights, so now she does not have control on any aspect of her past music which really makes me sad. 

[enchanted0]

1 hour ago, Walk_Away21 said:

She literally just made $225 million while your brokeass is posting for free on ATRL. If you are gonna drag her making that much money, at least make some sense.

These kinds of drags are sooo pointless  then what’s the point of dragging Xtina she’s still successful and rich than 99.9% of Atrlers 

[Anti-Hero]

6 minutes ago, FENTY. said:

Streaming royalties in 2022: $28.9M

 

https://celebrityaccess.com/2023/01/03/taylor-swift-tops-billboards-music-money-makers-list-without-touring/

is this before or after midnights?

[Walk_Away21]

2 minutes ago, enchanted0 said:

These kinds of drags are sooo pointless  then what’s the point of dragging Xtina she’s still successful and rich than 99.9% of Atrlers 

Lol we all love to drag on this site in some cute stan wars, but saying "Her music career is just not making any more money." is utterly stupid in a thread about her making $225 million off her music career.

[Otter]

4 minutes ago, Anti-Hero said:

I think she also sold her publishing rights, so now she does not have control on any aspect of her past music which really makes me sad. 

What kind of control over your past music do you need? Essentially this probably just means her music will be popping up more casually in commercial usage and be more frequently repackaged, covered etc... As a listener/fan it shouldn't have any impact on you. 

[BILLIONAIRE✘BOY]

[Breathe On Moi]

I know people just like to beat up on Katy here (look at this thread) but this is very impressive and amazing for her, unexpected. 

[JawBreaker]

5 minutes ago, FENTY. said:

Streaming royalties in 2022: $28.9M

 

https://celebrityaccess.com/2023/01/03/taylor-swift-tops-billboards-music-money-makers-list-without-touring/

That's just the US babe but u already knew that 

Also ofcourse the numbers I mentioned were for this year and obviously not all goes to her anwyay

[FENTY.]

Just now, JawBreaker said:

That's just the US babe but u already knew that 

Also ofcourse the numbers I mentioned were for this year and obviously not all goes to her anwyay

This is WW

 

"Taylor Swift topped this year’s Billboard Music Money Makers list with global earnings."

[Feanor]

5 minutes ago, JawBreaker said:

That's just the US babe but u already knew that 

Also ofcourse the numbers I mentioned were for this year and obviously not all goes to her anwyay

Those are global estimates from Billboard, but they're not for 2022, but for 2021 instead.

She went from 15.6B estimated global streams in 2021, to 36.6B in 2022 according to UMG, so based on this increase alone, her global revenue from streaming would've been ~$68M last year. In 2023 her streaming stats have exploded even further, so she'll exceed that number once again this year, at least as a far as we can tell from publicly available numbers.

 

The true revenue numbers are unknown to everyone except to Taylor and her label, so it's just speculation at the end of the day.

 

Edited September 18, 2023 by Feanor

[terrorblade]

ouch

[Kill Me]

10 minutes ago, FENTY. said:

Streaming royalties in 2021: $28.9M

 

https://celebrityaccess.com/2023/01/03/taylor-swift-tops-billboards-music-money-makers-list-without-touring/

Putting aside the fact those billboard numbers are from 2021; 

Spoiler

https://www.billboard.com/pro/top-earning-musicians-taylor-swift-bts-global-money-makers-2021/

Taylor's streams for the whole of 2021 on spotify - 9B

Taylor's streams for the whole of 2022 on spotify - 14B

Taylor's streams from January to July 2023 - 14B (with 1989TV coming soon she will double the 2022 numbers).

 

If 9B -> 30M; 28B -> 93M

So, where do we go from here?

[peacok]

Richer than Gaga now 

[PrettyHurts]

Hot n Cold alone was worth 224m 

[FENTY.]

3 minutes ago, Miss Americana said:

Putting aside the fact those billboard numbers are from 2021; 

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https://www.billboard.com/pro/top-earning-musicians-taylor-swift-bts-global-money-makers-2021/

Taylor's streams for the whole of 2021 on spotify - 9B

Taylor's streams for the whole of 2022 on spotify - 14B

Taylor's streams from January to July 2023 - 14B (with 1989TV coming soon she will double the 2022 numbers).

 

If 9B -> 30M; 28B -> 93M

So, where do we go from here?

Oh okay you got me. I didn’t know thid was from 2021