Catalogue sale
Brian May: $1.27B moved in 2024
Sony acquired the bulk of Queen's recorded music and publishing rights in the largest catalogue deal ever struck.
The figure
- Amount1,270,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryCatalogue sale
- CorridorLondon, United Kingdom → Tokyo, Japan
- Distance9.6K km apart
- Year reported2024
- Documentation confidence88/100
What that amount buys
$1.27B is roughly 17 long-range private jets, 3.0K median-priced US homes, or 15.8K years of median US household income.
Brian May is publicly known as guitarist, queen. The arc drawn for this entry joins London 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.
Source
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