So, more news. Seems David Guetta has sold his back catalogue to Warner for a 9 figure sum (£72M/$100M).. and if the BBC is reporting it, odds are its true lol. Check out the article here

Variety article here

Ya seeee, this is why I wanted to start the “extra” written content back up.. stuff like this I`m seeing news of weekly, almost daily.. and I reckon its important.. and if you read between the lines, and add a bit of thought about the big picture.. you might, just, come to the same, or completely wrong conclusion as me as to whats going on in certain areas of the Biz.

The conclusion is there definately something going on. Lets keep it simple.

What pricked my ears up on this one tho, is that this new deal includes all future recordings. Which, in this current round of sell off of rights, I think, is a first. That alone I think is newsworthy.

I have been following this M/O of what the big producers/artists have been doing quite keenly, with regards to them selling their back catalog, and rights to their songs, back to the labels, and private companies like the Nile Rodgers backed Hipgnosis who recently bought the rights to (amongst others), Bob Dylan, Shakira, RHCP & Fleetwood Mac ect..

And this is being done with billions of bucks and not chump change. So I honestly think its fair to say, something is afoot.

But what?

Its all conjecture from here tbh, but you can see why the big names are jumping in.. or out, depending on your perspective..

The thing that gets me is what these new rights buyers are actually going to do with the stuff they are buying? I cant see them just sitting on them, spose maybe thats an option, but I just get the feeling that theres going to be a bigger move somewhere down the line..

I`ll try to elaborate on my thought process ! Imagine if say Warner decided to set up a multitrack site, now they have David`s masters and the OK to do whatever they want with them. They could do anything. So could Hipgnosis. And I`m sure everybody else involved in this space would presumably follow.. What if they decided to sell these masters to the public as Stem sets? If doing that happens to become a money spinner, its basically lift off for stems & multitracks as a format in the same way we have known MP3 for a while now ..as a format.. kinda. Pipe dream..? maybe, but you have to agree, the option to do that is now there.. even thought the likelyhood of that happening is low. Still, I do like the fact that this option wasnt there a year or so ago. So I`m calling progress. Especially now as Nile Rodgers is involved [with Hipgnosis] . Pound to a penny he`s already one of the soon to be patented catchphrase “stem aware” brigade lol.

There would be still big hurdles ahead.. because there`s another fact to factor in that if something like the above were to happen, and say Warner put the full multi of Titanium or WLTO up for sale somewhere, it would take approx 45 mins for it to be ripped & half way round the net and on all the stem sites and forums/boards.

So, logically, you`d think thats a non starter.. it`d probs be much worse if Hipgnosis [you`ll have to look them up for now] launched a multi site and released the entire Fleetwood Mac or Chic`s (or who-evers) back catalogue! There would be carnage. Blood in the streets. Everybody would want a copy of the stems for themselves. Absolutely 100%. Discussion over.

So one single sale & 45 mins of ripping and uploading would be enough to send a bootleg multi `round the world & web in no time, and odds are that the store will close and it`ll be game over as we saw with the Ariana Grande stuff on MTM. But much, much worse. Hence, my bet is “that MTM scerario” would similarly play out again. And again X however many companies try it.

That doesnt tho, take away the fact that we all would like to OWN all our favourite songs in multi form one way or another. But how I hear you ask, if everything gets leaked in minutes and all the stores shut down overnight because they think theyve made a giant booboo..??

answer: NFT`s. We all get a copy of the “eventually” leaked stems, but only a select few will actually own them. Legally.

Think about it. I genuinely have.. a lot. And thats the only way I can see things working where everyone is happy and there`s tons of multis bouncing round the net..

And for those wanting those Prince multis from the Paisley Park vaults, where, I believe there may even be no record company involved (as such) I`m sure your time will come. Eventually. Though officially owning one of only maybe 10 “NFT” digital copies of the original Purple Rain multitrack tapes, might become somewhat expensive.

food for thought uh?

ah well best get on with the DG Masterpost:

David Guetta Masterpost

David Guetta – Hey Mama (3 Remix Parts)(44.1k-16bit)
David Guetta – Love Is Gone (13 Stems)(44.1k-16bit)
David Guetta & Showtek – Sun Goes Down (6 Stems)(44.1k-16bit)
David Guetta feat Kid Cudi – Memories (5 Stems)(44.1k-16bit)

Bonus;

The Egg – Walking Away (7 Remix Parts)(44.1k-16bit) flac

Added to the Masterposts page (Mega) here

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