AQ’s Spring Playlist: Cataloging the Virtues of a Brazilian Favorite

This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the Summit of the Americas The music world has been overtaken in recent months by a frenzy of acquisitions of pop stars’ catalogs by record labels, including those of Sting and Bob Dylan for a price tag of more than $300 million each. Readers may be wondering what it means for artists to sell their catalogs—and whether the acquisition wave could be coming to Latin America. Buying a song catalog means a label has purchased the right to collect payments for future uses of the artists’ thousands of songs and recorded...

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