99: Dan Runcie (Trapital) on Rihanna Super Bowl, Streaming Economics & Cash Money vs. Def Jam
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What's Rihanna's Catalog Value?
In the past two weeks Justin Bieber sold for I think 250 and then you've been talking about Michael Jackson's estate selling his catalog half of it for 800 million. Why those artists catalogs are valuable beyond just the longevity is that they in many cases are the soul singer and the soul songwriter for that so there aren't multiple hands that have a stake in this or that. The decay curve for these songs we already have a pretty good idea of what a Dylan song or what a Stevie Nick song will stream in terms of how many streams that it'll get 10 years from now because it's a bit more predictable but yeah Justin Bieber has had a bunch of songs that have a billion streams
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