"Sony Music" Buys Bob Dylan’s Recorded Music

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Bob Dylan has sold the master recordings to his entire back catalogue to "Sony Music".
The deal, completed last July, includes everything from classic 1960s albums like Blonde On Blonde, up to his latest release, 2020's Rough And Rowdy Ways.
Billboard magazine says the catalogue is worth about $200m, based on annual revenues of roughly $16m.
In Dylan’s case, his songwriting corpus is so valuable because of the thousands of cover versions of his songs that have been made over the years — from Peter, Paul & Mary in the 1960s to Adele, who recorded Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” on her first album.
Dylan’s history with Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony, goes back more than 60 years. He was signed to the label in 1961, by its famed talent scout John Hammond, and Columbia released Dylan’s self-titled first album the following year, which included traditional folk songs and a handful of Dylan originals like “Talkin’ New York” and “Song to Woody, ” a tribute to his hero Woody Guthrie.
"I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong, " Dylan said in a statement. 
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