According to several online industry sources, the Queen catalogue — including both the group’s recording and publishing rights — is in the process of being sold, with Universal Music Group among the key prospective buyers showing interest. The most commonly number being bandied about for the right to Queen’s albums, songs, and intellectual property is a cool $1 billion.
Music Business Worldwide reported, “Should a sale get completed, this would become the biggest single-artist music catalog sale in history, easily surpassing the $500 million-plus paid by Sony Music Group to acquire Bruce Springsteen’s recorded music and music publishing catalogs in late 2021.”
- Out now is Queen’s massive five-disc box set of their critically acclaimed 1989 album, The Miracle.
- The Miracle box contains over an hour of unreleased studio recordings including six previously unpublished songs — “plus intimate fly-on-the-wall audio of the band at work (and play) in the studio.”
- The Miracle — Queen’s 13th studio set — was released on May 22nd, 1989. The album, which stalled at Number 24 in America, topped the charts in the UK, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, and Germany.
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