Justin Timberlake Sells Song Catalog to Hipgnosis – Billboard

Justin Timberlake is the most recent artist to dump his songs.

The pop-star has bought his full catalog to Hipgnosis Tune Administration, the corporate introduced Thursday (Could 26). That features Scorching 100 chart-toppers “Sexyback,” “What Goes Round… Comes Round,” “My Love” and “Can’t Cease the Feeling.”

Together with Timberlake’s share of possession over his already basic tune catalog, Hipgnosis now owns the multi-hyphenate expertise’s total author and writer’s share of public efficiency earnings (Timberlake is signed to ASCAP) and can deal with worldwide administration of the compositions, topic to the remaining time period of his Common Music settlement, which expires in 2025.

From Memphis, Tennessee, Timberlake has been probably the most recognizable voices in music since his time as a member of the favored boyband *NSYNC, releasing hits like “Bye Bye Bye” and “It’s Gonna Be Me” from 1997-2001. Timberlake and different *NSYNC members usually didn’t take part within the writing means of their songs, however he’s credited as a author for “Merry Christmas, Completely satisfied Holidays,” the boyband’s perennial vacation hit. He’s additionally credited as a co-writer on just a few of the group’s later songs, together with “Pop,” “Celeb,” “Gone,” “I’ll Be Good To You” and “See Proper By You.”

Timberlake launched his debut solo file Justified in 2002, together with his first Scorching 100 prime 5 hit, the Timbaland-produced “Cry Me A River” and the Pharrell Williams-produced “Rock Your Physique.” Timberlake is credited as a co-writer throughout the entire album’s tracks, and he’s co-wrote “Cry Me a River” with Timothy Mosley and Scott Storch. He co-wrote “Rock Your Physique” with Chad Hugo and Williams.

Its groove-inflected pop sound flirted with in his debut proved to be the precursor to Timberlake’s far funkier, confident sophomore undertaking FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). With the assistance of Timbaland, who did a lot of the heavy lifting on its manufacturing, FutureSex produced the singer’s largest tune so far: “SexyBack” which held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Scorching 100 for seven weeks in addition to “What Goes Round… Comes Round.” The album was totally co-written by Timberlake. Each No. 1s had been written alongside Floyd Hills and Timbaland.

In between albums, Timberlake proved himself to be additionally among the many biggest appearing skills in Hollywood along with his function as Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, in The Social Community (2010) and as Jim Berkey in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He returned to that very same yr with the discharge of The 20/20 Expertise, a sleeker extra subtle undertaking, that includes songs like “Swimsuit & Tie,” that includes Jay-Z and “Mirrors.”

Timberlake additionally holds co-writing credit throughout your complete album, though this undertaking tended to function extra writers than his earlier two. “Mirrors” was co-written alongside James Fauntleroy, Christopher Godbey, Leslie Harmon, Garland Mosley, and Timbaland. “Swimsuit & Tie” was written with Jay-Z, James Fauntleroy, Charles Nonetheless, Leslie Harmon, Terry Stubbs, John Wilson and Timbaland. Since then, he’s minted just a few one-off singles as Scorching 100 hits, together with “Can’t Cease The Feeling” for the Trolls soundtrack, which he additionally government produced. He additionally launched his album Man of the Woods in 2018, which opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, his fourth chief.

With probably the most revered discographies of the twenty first century, Timberlake says that he’s excited to associate with Hipgnosis and its founder and CEO, Merck Mercuriadis, as a result of “he values artists and their artistic work and has all the time been a powerful supporter of songwriters and storytelling.”

He was represented on this acquisition by managers Rick Yorn, Josh Dembling at LBI Leisure and Johnny Wright at Wright Leisure Group and attorneys David Lande and Mitch Tenzer at Ziffren Brittenham LLP.

Mercuriadis provides, “Justin Timberlake just isn’t solely probably the most influential artists of the final 20 years however he’s additionally one of many biggest songwriters of all time…Placing this deal collectively has been an entire labour of affection for Justin, Rick, David and myself, and I’m delighted to welcome all of them to the Hipgnosis Household. That is the start of what we consider will probably be an unbelievable relationship necessary to us all.”

The acquisition was accomplished on behalf of Hipgnosis Songs Capital, a partnership between Hipgnosis Tune Administration and funds managed by Blackstone. The 2 entities first introduced their partnership in October 2021, with Blackstone contributing $1 billion to amass music rights and handle catalogs alongside Hipgnosis Tune Administration.