{"id":2396009,"date":"2026-04-30T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2396009"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:33:50","slug":"primary-waves-latest-fund-to-buy-music-rights-reaches-2-23bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/primary-waves-latest-fund-to-buy-music-rights-reaches-2-23bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Wave\u2019s latest fund to buy music rights reaches $2.23bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-268540\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Remember the flurry of speculation that the catalogue-sales\u00a0boom was about to pop \u2013 or at least deflate? A series of announcements this year on big raises for catalogue buyers suggests otherwise.\n\n\n<aside>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n<\/p><p>Primary Wave Music made the latest headlines, announcing yesterday that it has closed its \u2018Music IP Fund 4\u2019 with total commitments of just under $2.23bn. Originally, it had only been trying to raise $1.5bn.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>The company claims that it\u2019s the \u201clargest dedicated closed-end music royalties fund raised to date in the industry\u201d \u2013 with enough qualifying words in there to fend off anyone who might disagree.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Primary Wave isn\u2019t letting the money moulder in its bank account. The company noted that it has already invested $700m of it in more than 65 artist catalogues, ranging from The Notorious B.I.G., Village People and Gilberto Gil to Thin Lizzy, Neil Sedaka and The Cars.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>The closing of the new fund follows the announcement in March that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/03\/23\/primary-wave-confirms-acquisition-of-kobalt\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Primary Wave was buying Kobalt<\/a>, and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/01\/29\/music-finance-roundup-sony-music-x-gic-primary-wave-x-run\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its\u00a0January investment in Run<\/a>, a company provding financing to artists, labels and rightsholders.\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><\/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>Remember the flurry of speculation that the catalogue-sales\u00a0boom was about to pop \u2013 or at least deflate? A series of announcements this year on big raises for catalogue buyers suggests otherwise. Primary Wave Music made the latest headlines, announcing yesterday that it has closed its \u2018Music IP Fund 4\u2019 with total commitments of just under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2396010,"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":[345776,315362,340717],"class_list":["post-2396009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-catalogue-sales","tag-funding","tag-primary-wave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Primary-Waves-latest-fund-to-buy-music-rights-reaches-223bn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396009","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=2396009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396011,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396009\/revisions\/2396011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}