Hilary Duff grew up to be Kim Cattrall? Who do they expect to believe this stuff?

According to the article, they’re on pace to make their money back in 33 years.

But Sony’s also apparently on an aggressive acquisition spree, which I’m assuming gives them a ton of power in negotiations with existing streaming services. Hell, I’m expecting them to launch their own any day now.

“The company now owns 20 of the iconic artist’s work, including famed works Born To Run, The River, and Born In The U.S.A.”

I was a sporadic HIMYM watcher, meaning that I watched a fair amount of episodes out of order in syndication. So, when the finale rolled around I was up-to-date enough on the show. The finale was terrible. My wife and I discussed watching the show as a pandemic watch (comedy, 30 min episodes, 9 seasons - should be…

“Kids, you’ve listened to me go on about why I can’t bone your aunt for 9 years now, so.... How’s that sound now?” 

I think it would be a ballsy move to do a whole bunch of series (How I Met Your Father, How Dad and I Met, The Day Your Father and I First Got Together, etc.), each with a different protagonist/friend group in a different city... and all of them end with Pete Davidson as the father.

Spoiler alert:  It’s Pete Davidson.

If anyone wants it, I’ll sell you my unpublished novels for $50.

And also—related to heirs—managing the ins and outs of music publishing rights is a pain in the ass, especially now with streaming in the equation. This way, rather than leaving the kids a headache, he can leave them a fortune. 

Oh Kim Cattrall, you can read the phonebook to me and I’ll be happy.

His F-150 is in the shop so he has to borrow his wife’s Volvo and the guys down at Duffy’s all bust his balls…

His last album does not remotely suggest cognitive decline. Major stars in their 70's are lining up to do this.

Oh honey songs like this, baby they were born to ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun (during car commercials)

apparently learning nothing from Taylor Swift

Most people doing this are old. They do the negotiating while alive because it’s easier to split money when they die, and they are better negotiators than the heirs.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I in matters of music and music licensing can answer this for me. Do these giant sums being paid make sense for the buyers? Is this a case where revenue that could be generated is so high that what they paid is actually a bargain? Some artists seem to be perennially relevant to…

No offense to Sony, but I don’t see the value here. He only has a few tracks anybody covers and a bunch of his catalog doesn’t really lend itself to advertising. I can’t see any of his later records being consistent catalog sellers either.

He is going to have to pay taxes on the $500M and his agents probably get a healthy cut so it isn’t quite as easy as getting a 3% return on half a billion, but it shouldn’t be hard either, like you said.

Besides, he can probably come close to that $15M a year investing the proceeds from the sale.

If they are bringing in $15M a year and he is 72, then half a billion is more than they would make in his lifetime unless he lives to be about 110. Forbes says his net worth before this was about $80M, so this makes a big difference in the total, if probably not in his lifestyle. Besides, he can probably come close to…