Genesis’s most-streamed song, Invisible Touch, has about 170 million plays [on Spotify].

Ack. I don’t even remember the melody for that shit. It must be defense mechanism.


Neil Young sells song rights in ‘$150m’ deal - BBC News

6 January 2021


David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen among music stars whose back catalogs are sold : NPR

Updated January 4, 2022

Warner Chappell Music has bought the publishing rights to David Bowie’s catalog of songs for what may be more than $250 million.

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Springsteen sold his entire back catalog – including songwriting and recordings – to Sony Music Group, according to a Dec. 16 announcement. Industry reports placed the purchase at north of $500 million.

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$300m? Who the fuck bought Phil Collins’s catalog for the same price that the masters for Taylor Swift’s first 6 albums went for?

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there must be some misunderstanding

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i dont understand how you recoup that. if the whole genesis catalog disappeared few would notice or care.

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Michael Jackson has sold more albums since he died than when he was alive.

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Yeah but Michael Jackson is good

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MJ was a fucking phenomenon worldwide, not so much with Phil Collins.

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Collins is a shivering bag of skin nowadays, what the fuck does he need more money for? Oh yeah, of course, he moved to Switzerland for the exact purpose of paying less tax. That’s why.

Genesis post-Gabriel were always fucking rank.

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jokes on them I’ll never pay for music again

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