Primary Wave Acquires Music Publisher Kobalt

The deal turns Primary Wave into one of the biggest music companies in the business.

Primary Wave: Collecting Legendary Music Publishing Catalogs

As key acts or their estates capitalize on the value of career material, a few companies have been strategically positioning ...

Primary Wave to Acquire Kobalt, Creating $7 Billion Company

Primary Wave Music has announced a "definitive" agreement to acquire Kobalt, one of the world's largest independent music publishing and technology platforms, creating a company valued at ...

Eartha Kitt estate partners with Primary Wave & more music deals

Other recent music deals include Symphonic's acquisition of distribution and YouTube monetization platform Distro Nation and ...
Music Business Worldwide

From the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling to Primary Wave’s Kobalt deal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our ...
Music Business Worldwide

Primary Wave makes strategic investment in Vietnam’s POPS Music – with plans to ramp up catalog deals in Southeast Asia

Primary Wave Music has made what it calls a “strategic investment” in POPS Music, a prominent music company based in Vietnam.
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PE-backed Primary Wave Music acquires Ric Ocasek’s music publishing catalog

Ocasek, who passed away in 2019, is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for popular pop/rock band The Cars The Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 Based in ...