{"id":2262949,"date":"2026-02-02T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2262949"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:30:31","slug":"distrokid-is-latest-music-firm-rumoured-to-be-exploring-a-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/distrokid-is-latest-music-firm-rumoured-to-be-exploring-a-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"DistroKid is latest music firm rumoured to be exploring a sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-261869\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Last week, news broke of talks for BMG to potentially acquire Concord. Now another prominent music company is fluttering its eyes at potential suitors: DistroKid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MBW\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/distrokid-repped-by-goldman-sachs-and-raine-exploring-a-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the company has enlisted Raine Group and Goldman Sachs to drum up a potential $2bn-plus acquisition. That\u2019s up from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2021\/08\/17\/distrokid-1-3bn-funding-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the $1.3bn valuation in 2021<\/a>\u00a0when DistroKid raised funding from VC firm Insight Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than two million artists on its books \u2013\u00a0and a claimed 30%-40% share of all new music releases \u2013\u00a0DistroKid seems like an attractive acquisition for someone, whether that be a company from the private-equity world or the music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>That said, if one or more major labels wave their wallets in its direction you can expect more protests \u2013 and calls for regulators to step in \u2013\u00a0from the independent sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UMG\u2019s $775m acquisition of Downtown Music\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/01\/21\/umg-update-downtown-deal-to-be-approved-plus-def-jam-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seems set to be approved in the EC<\/a>, but any effort to snaffle DistroKid by the company or its rivals would certainly ignite another big row within the industry.<\/p>\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>Last week, news broke of talks for BMG to potentially acquire Concord. Now another prominent music company is fluttering its eyes at potential suitors: DistroKid. MBW\u00a0reported\u00a0that the company has enlisted Raine Group and Goldman Sachs to drum up a potential $2bn-plus acquisition. That\u2019s up from\u00a0the $1.3bn valuation in 2021\u00a0when DistroKid raised funding from VC firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2262950,"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":[26605,438346],"class_list":["post-2262949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-acquisitions","tag-distrokid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DistroKid-is-latest-music-firm-rumoured-to-be-exploring-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262949","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=2262949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262949\/revisions\/2262951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}