Catalogue sale

Michael Jackson: $750M moved in 2016

The Jackson estate sold its half of the Sony/ATV publishing joint venture, including the Beatles songbook, to Sony.

The figure

  • Amount750,000,000 US dollars
  • CategoryCatalogue sale
  • CorridorLos Angeles, United States → Tokyo, Japan
  • Distance8.8K km apart
  • Year reported2016
  • Documentation confidence95/100

What that amount buys

$750M is roughly 10 long-range private jets, 1.8K median-priced US homes, or 9.3K years of median US household income.

Michael Jackson is publicly known as musician (estate). The arc drawn for this entry joins Los Angeles and Tokyo 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.

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