How much did Bruce Springsteen sell his music catalogue for?

Music hard Data from 2021

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

$500,000,000

Roughly $500M.

Springsteen sold his recordings and songwriting catalogue to Sony for a reported $500 million in 2021, the largest deal of its kind. A wave of similar sales followed as investors started treating hit songs as a bond-like asset class.

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Source Sony Music, reported in the trade press
Figure refers to 2021
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