David Bowie’s huge musical catalog has just been acquired by Warner Chappell Music for more than 250 million.
According to the specialist magazine Variety, the deal between the British singer’s heirs and the music giant (a subsidiary of Warner) spans six decades of material and includes songs like Changes, Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust Where Heroes, as well as the part Under Pressure, 1981 collaboration with Queen.
Hundreds of songs by David Bowie, who died of cancer exactly six years ago, are now the property of Warner Chappell Music. These tracks are taken from the prolific musician’s 26 studio albums, the two albums by the group Tin Machine (Bowie’s project between 1988 and 1992), soundtracks, as well as the posthumous album. Toy, which is scheduled for release on Friday.
It was already announced last September that Warner Music had acquired the license rights to David Bowie’s catalog since 1968, including albums released between 2000 and 2016 under the Sony label.
Monday’s announcement comes as January 8 will be celebrated on the 75e birthday of Bowie, in particular with the publication of the opus Toy.