{"id":98243,"date":"2021-01-19T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98243"},"modified":"2021-01-19T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:39:42","slug":"imagem","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/imagem\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagem was a Netherlands-based music publishing company founded and run by Andre de Raaff.<\/p>\n<p>It was founded in 2008 with dual stakeholders: the Dutch company Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, one of the world&#8217;s biggest pension funds, alongside indie publisher CP Masters BV.<\/p>\n<p>Imagem was sold to Concord in 2017, in a deal which brought over 250,000 copyrights to Concord.<\/p>\n<p>Sources suggest Concord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/concords-500m-purchase-of-imagem-marks-the-birth-of-a-major-player-in-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid over $550 million<\/a> to acquire Imagem, whose catalog included songs by Mark Ronson, Phil Collins, and Daft Punk.<\/p>\n<p>Concord&#8217;s Imagem buy included the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/concord-bicycle-music-acquires-imagem-music-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquisition of both Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein and Boosey &amp; Hawkes<\/a> catalogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagem was a Netherlands-based music publishing company founded and run by Andre de Raaff. It was founded in 2008 with dual stakeholders: the Dutch company Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, one of the world&#8217;s biggest pension funds, alongside indie publisher CP Masters BV. Imagem was sold to Concord in 2017, in a deal which brought over 250,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/imagem\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22986,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98243","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}