Catalogue sale

David Gilmour: $400M moved in 2024

Sony Music bought Pink Floyd's recorded music catalogue and name and likeness rights after years of talks.

The figure

  • Amount400,000,000 US dollars
  • CategoryCatalogue sale
  • CorridorLondon, United Kingdom → New York, United States
  • Distance5.6K km apart
  • Year reported2024
  • Documentation confidence85/100

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.

David Gilmour is publicly known as guitarist, pink floyd. The arc drawn for this entry joins London and New York 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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