A Day In Rock: January 6th, 2016: Offspring Sells Catalog
On this day… The Offspring sells the rights to most of their music to Round Hill, a music rights company for approximately $35 million. “We felt that having the right caretaker for our catalog, both the masters and the publishing, is incredibly important to the future of our career,” says The Offspring’s Dexter Holland.
The band sold the recorded masters for the six albums it made for Columbia Records, along with the publishing rights to the songs on all nine of its studio efforts
The Columbia package had 1997’s “Ixnay On The Hombre,” which sold 1.4 million copies, 1998’s “Americana,” which moved five million, and ’00’s platinum-selling “Conspiracy Of One.”
Not included were the master recordings for the band’s first three albums with Epitaph, the label that originally released them.
The Epitaph albums were the band’s 1989 self-titled debut, 1992’s “Ignition” and 1994’s “Smash,” which sold more than six million copies in the U.S.
Since the deal, The Offspring have released two albums on the Concord imprint – 2021’s “Let The Bad Times Roll” and 2024’s “Supercharged.”
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