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Kenny Chesney Sells Catalog to Hipgnosis Song Management

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Song Management has acquired 80% of Kenny Chesney’s recorded music royalties, the company announced, covering his discography from his 1994 debut “In My Wildest Dreams” through 2017’s “Live in No Shoes Nation.” The catalog includes 22 albums, 15 of which are certified platinum.

The deal is the first acquisition made by Hipgnosis Song Management since its recently announced partnership with Blackstone to acquire music rights and manage catalogs.Terms of the deal were not announced.Chesney is one of the top-selling country performers — and one of the top-grossing live artists — of the past 25 years, with more than 30 million albums sold worldwide.

Songs included in the deal are such country chart-toppers as “The Good Stuff,” “There Goes My Life,” “How Forever Feels,” “When The Sun Goes Down,” “Never Wanted Nothing More” and “Summertime.” He has won Entertainer of the Year from the Academy of Country Music four times each from the Country Music Association, and has been nominated for six Grammys.Chesney was represented in the deal by his longtime manager Clint Higham at Morris Higham Management and lawyer Jess Rosen at Greenberg Traurig.Hipgnosis founder-CEO Merck Mercuriadis said: “Kenny Chesney is one of the truly great American artists.

He has been bringing joy to music fans all over the world for almost 30 years. His incredible success of more than 30 million records sold including nine No.

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