Why Queen’s $1 billion-plus asking price is a safe bet for SonyQueen’s billion-dollar catalog sale is closer than ever to becoming real and not just fantasy.that the band was asking $1.2 billion, which would encompass their publishing catalog, master recording rights and ancillary income streams. The latter includes revenue from the 2018 film “Bohemian Rhapsody,” still one of the
In the year since the search for a Queen buyer began, many in the industry were curious if the band’s catalog should even command a higher price tag than the Boss, Dylan or the King of Pop. But in the 31 years since Mercury’s passing, Queen has had exceptional staying power compared with their peers.for monthly listeners on Spotify and has five songs with over a billion streams each .