Music Business Worldwide
June 4, 2021
Joel Little
Hipgnosis Songs Fund has acquired another string of serious hits, this time from Grammy-winning songwriter, producer, and musician Joel Little.
Hipgnosis has acquired 178 song rights from New Zealand’s Little, including both the writer’s and publisher’s share of this catalog.
Those songs include hits recorded by the likes of Taylor Swift (Me!), Khalid (Young Dumb & Broke), Imagine Dragons (Whatever It Takes) and Lorde (Royals).
Hipgnosis’s filings reveal that the 178 songs generated $4.32 million in 2019, and $2.98 million in 2018.
Little is best known for his collaboration with Lorde, co-writing and producing both her debut EP, ‘The Love Club’, as well as her first album, ‘Pure Heroine’, and for co-writing her second album, ‘Melodrama’.