Michael Jackson Buys Eminem Songs

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Michael Jackson Buys Rights to Eminem's Catalog

I remember when Michael Jackson raised hell over Eminem's parody of the Gloved One the music clip for "Just Lose It." Em basically told Jacko to lighten up, it was all in good humor after all. Well, I wonder how the Slim Shady feels now that Michael Jackson owns the rights to two of his biggest hits: "Without Me" and "The Real Slim Shady."

Jackson, who owns a stake in The Beatles' catalog, recently acquired Famous Music LLC from Viacom. The new purchase grants him copyright access to the aforementioned Eminem songs, in addition to songs by Beck, Shakira, and Bjork.
"This is a milestone event for Sony/ATV Music Publishing," said Jackson in a statement. "The diverse collection of songs in this catalog range from timeless classics to contemporary hits, and I am pleased to add the acquisition of Famous Music to Sony/ ATV."

[pawel]

Michael Jackson is rich as fuck anyway :p I simply don't understand why he'd wanna buy that...

[Shady's_Back]

What does that mean though owning the rights to a song? Does that mean he can control if anyone does a cover of the song? I'm confused.

Anyway, nice new forum layout!

[BigBangBazinga]

Michael Jackson is not rich. He's got a lot of debts. Even though he owns two of Em's songs, I don't think he will use them in any way at all.

Btw, nice look on the forum!

[T & T]

How the hell did he do that he is in so much Debt..
He needs to pay his bills

[bobmoo79]

Basically, Michael Jackson has debts in the same way that Microsoft and Sony have debts. Debts are a necessary way to run large businesses all over the world and the fact that large companies have debts does not make them broke. The same goes for Jacko.

For example, he is rumoured to owe Bank of America several hundred million dollars. That is nothing.
He owns 50% of Sony/ATV, which before he bought Future was estimated to be worth in excess of $1.2billion. So if he had sold that he would have received around $600million (before costs).
Michael Jackson now owns (with Sony) Future Publishing LLC, which was bought for around $350million. Jacko would have to have paid 50% of that fee himself.

Owning the publishing rights to songs as Jacko does through Sony/ATV, Future publishing and other companies means that any time a song held by the publishing company is used on TV,radio, or sold as a single or on an album Jacko gets paid.

Jacko owns literally thousands upon thousands of songs including:

The beatles catalogue
Elvis Presley
Beyonce
Ne-Yo
Fall Out Boy
Eminem
Shakira
Bjork
Rhianna (umbrella!)
Bon Jovi
Jimmi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
Gary Barlow
Take That
Wyclef Jean
James Morrison
Destiny's Child
Beck
Joni Mitchell
Lauren Hill
System Of A Down AND MANY MORE....



So eveytime you buy an album by any of these people (and more) remember you're putting money in Jacko's pockets.

He earns a personal salary from Sony/ATV of around $40million a year. Add the new income from Future publishing, income from other businesses (hotels entertainment companies) and his own music. Add to that the value of Neverland Ranch (estimated to be worth almost $100million) other huge properties around the world. Add all these together and anyone can see that Jacko is nowhere near to bankrupt. Anyone who says otherwise is just an ill-informed reporter, a reporter who likes to recycle the Jacko is broke story, or a member of the public that believes what they read in the papers without thinking. The papers have been reporting he's broke since the early 90s and there's no sign of him going bankrupt any time soon.

[unlabeled04]

so what can he do with the songs now that he owns them?

[imarun10]

I'm actually not really that surprised. Anyone who is seriously considering investing in purchasing albums of successful artists is smart to gain a variety of genres and styles. Eminem is definitely one of the icons of the rap scene, so that was a very understandable decision and purchase.

[D0llyShady]

So eveytime you buy an album by any of these people (and more) remember you're putting money in Jacko's pockets.

Whoa. I've never thought of it that way.
But yea... it was a good investigation, that's for sure.

Edit: That's what happens if it's late and I'm tired... I meant investment, not investigation.

[bobmoo79]

so what can he do with the songs now that he owns them?

He can now control when and where they are used and gain a portion of the profit every time they are used on TV, radio, film etc, plus every album that is bought with those songs on it.

[lil_hernandez]

wouldnt it make mroe since if the person who wrote the songs would benefit fomr it, if it was played on tv/ radio....what ever????

[bobmoo79]

Since acquiring Famous Music, Jacko (as part of SONY/ATV) has also bought other music collections


Just some current examples of Sony/ATVs money makers.:

"Closer"
( Eriksen )
by Ne-Yo
UK Singles Chart #4

"Take A Bow"
( Eriksen )
by Rihanna
UK Singles Chart #9

"Love Song"
( Bareilles )
by Sara Bareilles
UK Singles Chart #12

"That's Not My Name"
( White )
by The Ting Tings
UK Singles Chart #14

"Wearing My Rolex"
( Keane )
by Wiley & Bless Beats
UK Singles Chart #21

"Low"
by Flo Rida
UK Singles Chart #22

"Shine On"
( Pritchard , )
by The Kooks
UK Singles Chart #25

"When You Touch Me"
( Small / Wiltshire , )
by Freemasons
UK Singles Chart #27

"Love In This Club"
by Usher
UK Singles Chart #29

"Elevator"
by Flo Rida Featuring Timbaland
UK Singles Chart #31


"POCKET FULL OF SUNSHINE"
( Shanks )
by Natasha Bedingfield
Billboard - Pop Singles #5

"BUST IT BABY PART 2"
( Rotem )
by Plies
Billboard - Pop Singles #8

"WHAT YOU GOT"
( Akon , Tuinfort )
by Colby O'Donis
Billboard - Pop Singles #14

"DANGEROUS"
( Akon )
by Kardinall Offishall
Billboard - Pop Singles #24

"REALIZE"
( Reeves )
by Colbie Caillat
Billboard - Pop Singles #20

"DAMAGED"
( Romulus )
by Danity Kane
Billboard - Pop Singles #11

"SAY"
( Mayer )
by John Mayer
Billboard - Pop Singles #13

"WITH YOU"
( Eriksen )
by Chris Brown
Billboard - Pop Singles #2

"DON'T STOP THE MUSIC"
( Eriksen , Storm )
by Rihanna
Billboard - Pop Singles #3

"APOLOGIZE"
( Tedder )
by Timbaland
Billboard Pop 100, Pop Airplay #1

These are only highlights, so think how much money Sony/ATV and Jacko are making on a worldwide scale from these songs and more, plus albums and TV/Radio airplay. Trust me, there is no way Jacko is broke in the slightest. Jacko's album Thriller (25th anniversary edition) is the 5th biggest selling album in the world this year too, so he's earning good money from his own stuff.

[Vertis]

that molestin' mothafucka

[anniee]