SESAC is the latest performance rights organization to garner interest from financial investors, as owner Blackstone fields private equity offers.| Billboard
Global Music Rights' majority ownership officially changed hands after a deal valuing it at $3.3 billion closed just before Christmas, sources say.| Billboard
2017 started off with a bang for the music business: Blackstone's Core Equity Partners fund acquired SESAC in what might well be $1 billion deal. That's the rumored price tag floating around the industry. Who knows ig the rumor is true, but here we will look at SESAC's financial numbers to see if that price is feasible.| Billboard
Dave is the senior director for live music and touring at Billboard, where he oversees the publication’s business coverage of the concert, festival and live-music industry. He joined Billboard in 2017 following the acquisition of his member-supported newsletter and news site Amplify, which he launched with his wife, Kristen, in 2014. Dave is the former managing editor of Venues Today magazine and previously worked as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times in the newspaper’s Orange County...| Billboard
The band's current drummer Josh Freese will reportedly join Nine Inch Nails.| Billboard