Sony Negotiating to Acquire Queen's Music Copyright

TapTechNews May 30th news, according to a Bloomberg report, Sony is negotiating to acquire the music copyright catalog of the Queen band, including popular works such as Bohemian Rhapsody, with a total amount that may reach 1 billion US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 7.26 billion Chinese yuan). This may be one of the largest transactions of its kind in history.

Public information shows that Bohemian Rhapsody is a song created by Freddie Mercury and was originally included in the 1975 album A Night at the Opera.

This song was one of the most expensive singles ever produced at that time, and it is still one of the most elaborate and complex works in the history of pop music. After being released as a single, this song has also achieved tremendous commercial success, topping the UK singles chart for nine consecutive weeks and becoming one of the best-selling singles in the history of the global recording industry.

The structure of this song is extremely special. There is no repeating chorus, but it is composed of several parts with very different styles, including ballad, guitar solo, opera, hard rock, etc., and is filled with intense stream of consciousness and nightmare colors. This song is quite well-known in Western society and is often abbreviated as BoRhap or BoRap.

In addition, 20th Century Fox also released the eponymous biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. This film became the highest-grossing musical biographical film in history in just five weeks of release, with a global total box office take of over 800 million US dollars (currently about 5.808 billion Chinese yuan), and it also made the music and MV streaming play count of this single reach more than 1.6 billion times, becoming the most streamed song in the world in the 20th century.