Music From Emmy-Winning TV Shows
Music used in shows including Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (HBO), Teen Mom (MTV), Jersey Shore (MTV), and more.
Historic royalty income is no indication of future royalty income. Future royalty income is dependent upon future sales and licensing revenue generated by the sound recordings or compositions associated with this listing.
| Starting Price: | $6,500 |
| Bidding Increment: | $500 |
| Closing Price: | $21,000 |
| End Date: | Sep 28, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT |
| Investment Term: | Life of author + 70 years |
| Past 4 Quarters' Royalties: | $3,493 |
| First Payment: | November 2016 |
| Royalty Type: | Public Performance |
| Fees: | $75 ASCAP Assignment Fee |
Description
Bid on 90% of the Seller's publisher interest in public performance royalties generated by a catalog of production music that has been used in over 45 television shows. These songs have appeared on shows including Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, I Used to be Fat and on networks like VH1, MTV and HBO.
The music played in the background during television shows is considered production music. This music is sometimes overlooked by the audience, but can be a consistent royalty income producer. In the past 12 months this asset earned $3,493.
ASCAP will distribute the royalties to the winner of this auction on a quarterly basis. The winner of the auction will receive the first royalty check in November. More detailed information can be found in the “Financials” tab.
What is being sold?
90% of Seller's interest in the publisher's share of public performance royalties for a catalog of songs administered by ASCAP. The financials represented in the listing reflect 90% of the royalties earned by this asset. That means if you owned the asset available for auction in 2015, you would have earned $2,852 of royalties.
how does this asset make money?
Every time a network airs a television show that uses any of the songs in this catalog the asset generates a public performance royalty. This means every time Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, or any other show, uses a song from this catalog and airs on television, you earn money.
what is interesting about this asset?
This a diverse catalog, including tracks from various genres placed in a wide range of shows. The music in this catalog has been used in over 45 TV shows across multiple channels such as MTV, VH1, HBO and more.
One of the tracks included in the catalog has been used in Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, which airs on HBO. In 2015 this show won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards, including the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming. In addition to winning 4 Emmy Awards, the show also won the 2015 Cinema Audio Society USA award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials.
This catalog has enjoyed consistent use in the popular MTV show Teen Mom, which has aired since 2009. Additionally, this catalog has been used in subsequent spin-offs of the original Teen Mom series, including Teen Mom 2, Teen Mom 3, and Teen Mom OG.
what rights are included?
about the royalty distributors
ASCAP is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a membership association of more than 575,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide.