{"id":1961891,"date":"2025-08-15T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1961891"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:59:14","slug":"chord-music-partners-raises-new-strategic-funding-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chord-music-partners-raises-new-strategic-funding-for-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Chord Music Partners raises new strategic funding for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-247750\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Chord Music Partners is one of the most interesting players in the music catalogue-buying space, not least because Universal Music Group\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2024\/02\/21\/umg-tunes-its-catalogue-buying-strategy-with-240m-chord-stake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bought a 25.8% stake in it early last year.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, UMG announced a new strategic investment in Chord from Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment company.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/searchlightcap.com\/portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As far as we can tell<\/a>, it\u2019s the latter\u2019s first stake in a music entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSearchlight\u2019s expertise, network and ability to meaningfully contribute toward expanding Chord\u2019s premier IP portfolio make Searchlight an ideal strategic partner for our Company\u2019s next chapter,\u201d said Chord co-founder Sam Hendel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Figures were not mentioned in the announcement, but MBW\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/exclusive-chord-music-partners-raises-2-billion-in-investible-capital-with-another-1-billion-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the deal is part of a wider funding round that will raise $1bn-$2bn for Chord by October.Quite the warchest for future catalogue acquisitions\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section>\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chord Music Partners is one of the most interesting players in the music catalogue-buying space, not least because Universal Music Group\u00a0bought a 25.8% stake in it early last year. Yesterday, UMG announced a new strategic investment in Chord from Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment company.\u00a0As far as we can tell, it\u2019s the latter\u2019s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1961892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[345776,315362],"class_list":["post-1961891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-catalogue-sales","tag-funding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Chord-Music-Partners-raises-new-strategic-funding-for-growth.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}