billboard.com/pro/kanye-west-song-catalog-sale-market-publishing-share

that seems really low

im interested

let's all pitch in and buy it

publishing rights are the same or different than masters?

would be typical ye to go on and on about owning your own masters and then selling them not but like a couple years later. again though not sure if publishing rights and masters are the same

Dang 175 lmao mans really falling off in real time

Different

That seems really low considering his catalog

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He doesn't own his masters pre TLOP (or pre Ye), right? So that could be a contributing factor to why the figure is lower than expected

But he's top 25 streamed every year & is licenced/synced all the time

different, publishing is basically the owner of the composition/lyrics

masters is the owner of the recording ish

How did Wayne sell his masters for? Why does that feel insultingly low for Kanye?

This is interesting

U should only sells these as a legacy act where the value of the catalog is only likely to diminish overall with more time.

Ye is an active artist with likely new material coming out in the future. The positive perception of his brand is also volatile. There's no reason his catalog is potentially not more valuable in the future. He shouldn't sell

Either that or he's scared his assets are going to lose tremendous value soon n he needs the money

it’s over

I’d agree with masters, but idk for Kanye’s publishing since his music is synced / plays a lot in trailers

Might be worth it to keep the publishing tbh

Ya'll are confusing this with masters. $175M for publishing is insane

IIRC during that Uganda stream when Kanye complained about having the money to buy his publishing but them not letting him, I believe he said at the time they told him he'd need to pay $9M

Nah it's mostly his new stuff so that's actually alot considering these songs don't have any shelf life yet

not his master’s being sold

I get its not his masters but someone explain what this means if someone were to buy it

oh okay I get it basically get streaming and purchased revenue? why Ye so focused on making more money right now though?

I thought he was focused on the art especially 175 million which is great money but he has billions so why not own his own publishing rights for life?

I dont know I am confused

What does that mean then? Like he can't rerecord new music with those lyrics like Taylor Swift?

He does not have “billions”