Catalogue sale
Bob Dylan: $400M moved in 2020
Sold his songwriting catalogue to Universal Music, then his recordings to Sony a year later.
The figure
- Amount400,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryCatalogue sale
- CorridorNew York, United States → Los Angeles, United States
- Distance3.9K km apart
- Year reported2020
- Documentation confidence88/100
What that amount buys
$400M is roughly 5 long-range private jets, 952 median-priced US homes, or 5.0K years of median US household income.
Bob Dylan is publicly known as musician. The arc drawn for this entry joins New York and Los Angeles because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.
Source
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