Music Catalogs Are Worth More as Streaming Grows - Here’s Why After subtracting an estimated 20% for distribution and producer royalties, that would leave the Jackson catalog with about $35 million annually. Since Jackson owned his masters (he likely got them back in the 1980s or early 1990s, when a bunch of Sony megastar artists individually negotiated to eventually reclaim ownership of their masters in exchange for re-signing recording contracts with the major record company), he would receive the bulk of that revenue.
Billboard couldn’t confirm those talks are happening, but we crunched the numbers and estimate that the estate may carry an even higher valuation than the $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion speculated in Variety‘s story.īillboard estimates that the Michael Jackson recorded master catalog averaged nearly $44 million in annual revenue over the last three years. That’s the $2 billion question swirling around the business, amid reports by outlets led by Variety, which broke the news, that Sony Music Group is in negotiations to buy 50% of Jackson’s estate.
In today’s red-hot market for music assets, what is Michael Jackson‘s estate worth?
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