{"id":2443805,"date":"2026-06-03T21:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2443805"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:45:06","slug":"garth-brooks-weighs-music-catalog-sale-at-up-to-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/garth-brooks-weighs-music-catalog-sale-at-up-to-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Weighs Music Catalog Sale at Up to $2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>June 2 (Reuters) \u2013 Country music singer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/garth-brooks\/\" data-ami-celebrity-show=\"\"><strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is exploring the sale of his music catalog, seeking up to about $2 billion in a deal that could rank among the largest for an individual artist, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/garth-brooks-considers-sale-of-music-catalog-seeking-roughly-2-billion-c80c2af2\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reported on Tuesday, June 2, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Brooks, 64, did not immediately respond to Reuters\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The potential transaction would include both his songwriting and recorded music rights, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Brooks has recently discussed valuations ranging from $1 billion to over $2 billion with potential investors, the newspaper said, without identifying the investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sony Music has been an active buyer of music rights. In 2021, it acquired <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/bruce-springsteen\/\" data-ami-celebrity-show=\"\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s entire catalog in a deal Billboard said was worth $500 million. Sony was also reported in 2024 to buy Queen\u2019s catalog in a \u00a31 billion deal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Brooks has sold a record 200 million albums in the U.S., more than the Beatles\u2019 183 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Brooks, known for hits including \u201cThe Dance,\u201d \u201cFriends in Low Places\u201d and \u201cThe River\u201d, has earned honors including the Kennedy Center Honor and the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize, according to his official website.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Carlos M\u00e9ndez in Mexico City; additional reporting by Mrinmay Dey; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2 (Reuters) \u2013 Country music singer Garth Brooks\u00a0is exploring the sale of his music catalog, seeking up to about $2 billion in a deal that could rank among the largest for an individual artist, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, June 2, citing people familiar with the matter. \u2022 Reuters could not immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"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":[25177],"tags":[24003,21800],"class_list":["post-2443805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443805","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=2443805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443806,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443805\/revisions\/2443806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}