Justin Bieber sells music rights for $200 million - Fox Business

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Justin Bieber sold his euphony rights for much than $200 cardinal to Hipgnosis Songs Capital, the institution confirmed Tuesday. 

"Justin is genuinely a erstwhile successful a procreation creator and that is reflected and acknowledged by the magnitude of this deal," Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun said successful a statement, according to Variety. "For 15 years I person been grateful to witnesser this journey, and contiguous I americium blessed for each those involved. Justin’s greatness is conscionable beginning."

The woody includes each of Bieber’s 291 songs released earlier the extremity of 2021 up to his latest medium "Justice."  

Hipgnosis celebrated the merchantability connected Instagram, writing: "Welcome to the Hipgnosis family @justinbieber."

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Following the sale, Bieber's maestro recordings volition reportedly inactive beryllium administered by Universal Music, and the institution volition inactive ain the maestro recordings successful perpetuity.

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Justin Bieber sold his euphony catalog for $200 million.  (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue / Getty Images)

Bieber’s catalog is reportedly the largest acquisition for the euphony rights radical and reportedly 1 of the largest for a instrumentalist his age. 

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"This acquisition ranks among the biggest deals ever made for an creator nether the property of 70," Merck Mercuriadis, the laminitis of Hipgnosis Song Management, said, per Variety. "At lone 28 years of age, helium is 1 of a fistful of defining artists of the streaming epoch that has revitalized the full euphony industry."

Younger artists are often considered much of a hazard successful a catalog merchantability due to the fact that their songs person yet to basal the trial of time, but the "Never Say Never" singer's continued occurrence makes him an exception, according to the outlet.

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The woody includes each of Bieber’s 291 songs released earlier the extremity of 2021 up to his latest medium "Justice." (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

Justin Timberlake, Neil Young, Kenny Chesney, Leonard Cohen, Nile Rodgers and Nelly Furtado antecedently inked akin deals with Hipgnosis. 

Timberlake sold his catalog for a small much than $100 million, and Young 50% of his for astir $150 million. 

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The woody with the 'Never Say Never' vocalist was 1 of the 'biggest' for an creator nether 70, Hipgnosis said. (Cliff Lipson/CBS via Getty Images / Getty Images)

In 2020, Bob Dylan sold his opus catalog to Universal Music Publishing for $400 million, Variety reported. 

Generally, publishing rights are not arsenic invaluable arsenic the existent recorded songs and albums; however, gross from advertizing and movie licensing tin supply a important nett implicit a play of time, particularly for fashionable artists similar Bieber. 

A rep for Bieber did not instantly respond to FOX Business' petition for comment.

FOX Business' Phillip Nieto contributed to this report. 

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