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BIG SALE: Artist Bob Dylan, pictured here in 2015, has sold his entire music catalog. Photo: Vince Bucci / TT NEWS AGENCY
The price of the music catalog is not yet known, but it is estimated at about $ 300 million.
The record company Univarsal Music has bought the rights to more than 600 of the songs that Bod Dylan has written, which make up the artist’s entire catalog, writes The New York Times.
This is probably the largest rights purchase made by a single artist.
The price has not been indicated, but is estimated at about $ 300 million, equivalent to 2.6 billion crowns, according to the newspaper.
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Jody Gerson, CEO of Universal, describes the acquisition of rights as “a privilege and a responsibility”
Dylan himself has so far not commented on the sale, according to the New York Times.
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Bob Dylan has delivered an “extraordinary” Nobel lecture
The legendary artist is known for songs like “Like a rolling stone”, “Knocking on heaven’s door” and “Hurricane.” In 2016, he even won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
– Bob Dylan receives the award for having created new poetic expressions within the great American singing tradition, the Nobel jury wrote about the artist at the time.
This is why Dylan received the award:
