{"id":2349,"slug":"african-catalogue-deal-full-price-disclosures","title":"The six African-linked music deals in this desk’s record that disclosed a full price, 2018-2026","source":"Afrobeats Wire's own afw_deal register: the six deals, out of 21 African-linked music company and catalogue transactions this desk has independently verified, in which a named party stated a total consideration figure. Two further deals (Chocolate City, Believe) disclosed only a partial or calculated figure and are excluded from this table; the other 13 disclosed nothing.","source_url":"https:\/\/afrobeatswire.com\/deals\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Filtered from this desk's catalogue-deal-structure dataset (21 rows) to the six rows where amount_status equals 'disclosed', meaning a named buyer or seller stated a total consideration figure in a primary source. For each, this column records what the disclosed price actually bought, read from the same afw_deal_rights field used to build catalogue-deal-structure, and whether any source discloses a revenue or earnings figure for that specific asset in the same disclosure (checked against every source and sources_extra URL on the underlying afw_deal record). None do.","unit":"usd","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-08-23 10:49:30","n":6,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"deal","label":"Deal","type":"text"},{"key":"year","label":"Year","type":"number"},{"key":"amount_reported","label":"Amount reported","type":"text"},{"key":"amount_value","label":"Amount, native currency","type":"number"},{"key":"stake_pct","label":"Stake acquired, %","type":"number"},{"key":"what_was_priced","label":"What the price actually bought","type":"text"},{"key":"revenue_disclosed_same_deal","label":"Revenue\/earnings disclosed for this asset","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"deal":"Public Media Capital and DGE buy 75% of Trace Partners SAS","year":2018,"amount_reported":"EUR 30,000,000","amount_value":30000000,"stake_pct":75,"what_was_priced":"Equity in the parent of a pan-African TV, digital and radio group; not music masters or publishing","revenue_disclosed_same_deal":"No"},{"deal":"Maison Capital and Seas Capital join Boomplay's Series A","year":2019,"amount_reported":"USD 20,000,000","amount_value":20000000,"stake_pct":0,"what_was_priced":"Minority equity in a streaming platform; the deal record states explicitly that no music rights changed hands","revenue_disclosed_same_deal":"No"},{"deal":"OSN takes equity control of Anghami Inc","year":2024,"amount_reported":"USD 38,000,000 (cash plus contributed OSN+ content assets)","amount_value":38000000,"stake_pct":0,"what_was_priced":"Equity control of a Nasdaq-listed streaming platform; the deal record states explicitly that no music copyrights, masters or publishing rights changed hands","revenue_disclosed_same_deal":"No"},{"deal":"Virgin Music Group (UMG) completes acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings","year":2026,"amount_reported":"USD 775,000,000","amount_value":775000000,"stake_pct":0,"what_was_priced":"A five-line services and administration company: FUGA distribution, Downtown Artist & Label Services, CD Baby, Downtown Music Publishing (administration) and Songtrust; not an itemised schedule of copyrights","revenue_disclosed_same_deal":"No"},{"deal":"Mdundo funding round against an unanswered 40% proposal","year":2026,"amount_reported":"DKK 8,905,738","amount_value":8905738,"stake_pct":40,"what_was_priced":"New equity in a streaming platform","revenue_disclosed_same_deal":"No"},{"deal":"Reservoir\/PopArabia buys Viral Wave","year":2026,"amount_reported":"USD 5,892,734","amount_value":5892734,"stake_pct":0,"what_was_priced":"All issued share capital of a MENA distributor; goodwill assigned to Reservoir's Recorded Music segment","revenue_disclosed_same_deal":"No"}]}