{"id":30507,"date":"2024-10-02T18:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/report-pink-floyd-sells-catalog-for-400-million\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:03:25","slug":"report-pink-floyd-sells-catalog-for-400-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/report-pink-floyd-sells-catalog-for-400-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pink Floyd sells catalog for $400 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-02\/Getty_PinkFloyd_100224.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Jon Furniss\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Looks like the long-in-the works deal to sell <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>\u2019s catalog\u00a0has finally happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c484dfc0-e144-4313-b70f-040a47c189ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The<\/strong><\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong> Financial Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">reports that the band has agreed to sell the recording rights to their catalog to Sony for a reported $400 million.\u00a0The deal covers the copyrights\u00a0only to the band\u2019s recorded music, not their songwriting. It also includes rights to the band&#8217;s\u00a0name and \u201clikeness,\u201d which\u00a0can cover things like merchandising and possible movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This isn\u2019t the first time Pink Floyd\u2019s catalog has been the subject of sale talks; in 2022 several companies were reportedly interested but the sale was put on hold, with infighting between band members, particularly <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong> and <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>, getting in the way of a deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The paper notes that Gilmour and Sony did not comment on the deal, and Waters was unavailable for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pink Floyd, made up of Gilmour, Waters, <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> and the late <strong>Richard Wright<\/strong>, is one of the bestselling rock bands around, thanks to albums like <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Dark Side of the Moon<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Wish You Were Here<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Animals<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Wall<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and more. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Furniss\/WireImage Looks like the long-in-the works deal to sell Pink Floyd\u2019s catalog\u00a0has finally happened. The Financial Times reports that the band has agreed to sell the recording rights to their catalog to Sony for a reported $400 million.\u00a0The deal covers the copyrights\u00a0only to the band\u2019s recorded music, not their<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/report-pink-floyd-sells-catalog-for-400-million\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}