It’s being billed as one of the largest music catalog deals involving a modern ‘frontline’ act: New Orleans duo Suicideboys (aka $uicideboy$) are reportedly shopping both their masters and music publishing rights for a princely sum.<\/p>\n
Billboard<\/em> notes<\/a> that Suicideboys \u2013 also known as cousins\u00a0Scrim<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Ruby da Cherry<\/b> \u2013 are being represented in the potential sell-off by Tim Mandelbaum<\/strong>, a partner with the law firm Fox Rothschild.<\/p>\n The price may stun you. Billboard<\/em> reports<\/a> that the cult hip-hop duo’s masters portfolio alone is being touted by its sellers for over USD $300 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As for their publishing<\/em> catalog? MBW<\/em> has heard a few whispers of our own.<\/p>\n Rumor-mongers are rumor-mongering that the current front-runner in the race to acquire the available package of Suicideboys’<\/strong> publishing rights is Harbourview <\/strong>\u2013 the company led by Sherrese Clarke Soares that raised <\/a>$500 million in debt financing last year from KKR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We will see if said mooted deal comes to pass. (MBW likes to believe we speak to a particularly well-informed class of rumor-mongerer.)<\/p>\n Our sources indicate that the price now likely to be commanded by the Suicideboys’ publishing catalog has reached around\u00a0$100 million<\/strong>, based on an annual NPS in the region of $5<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Since 2021,\u00a0Suicideboys’<\/strong> recorded music catalog \u2013 released on the duo’s own G59 label \u2013 has been represented and distributed by The Orchard.<\/strong><\/p>\n Whispers at the time suggested that The Orchard<\/strong> committed a “strong eight-figure” investment to that agreement.<\/p>\n Prior to this, the recorded music on G59 had been distributed by Universal Music Group \/Virgin Music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n