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In what may be the biggest deal in music for an individual

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body of work.

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Bruce Springsteen has sold his master's and his publishing

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to Sony Music in a combined deal.

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That sources tell billboard is in the area of about five hundred

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million dollars. Springsteen has recorded for Sony's Columbia

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Records in print for an entire 50-year,

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career and like other top selling 1970s and 80s Stars was granted

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ownership of his earlier albums as incentive to re-sign with the

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label in the late 80s and 90s as sales.

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Boom, during the CD explosion, the Springsteen album catalog

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which includes the 15 times Platinum born in the u.s.a.

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In the five times Platinum.

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The river still has plenty of Firepower as his music has generated

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2.25 million album consumption units in the US since the beginning

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of 2018 according to Mr.

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See data.

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Billboard estimates that the Springsteen catalog generated

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about 15 million in Revenue in 2020,

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in a year that size catalog, activity increased by the release

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of his new album letter to you and the carryover from three

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albums that were released in 2019.

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Western Stars, the Western Stars soundtrack and the Blinded

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By the Light soundtrack.

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Furthermore billboard estimates that Springsteen's

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publishing. Catalog brings in about seven point five million

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dollars a year.

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The deal comes a year after Universal music publishing

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group purchase Bob, Dylan publishing catalog for between

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$375 and 400 million.

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Alright? For more on this story, can I'd the billboard.com

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for billboard news on Chelsea Briggs.