Hipgnosis acquires Barry Manilow's music catalogue

Crooner's hits added to fund's collection

David Brenchley
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Hipgnosis Songs Fund has snapped up the music catalogue of Barry Manilow, giving it 100% of recording royalties to the singer and songwriter's 917 songs.

The singer-songwriter, who is an inductee into the US Songwriters' Hall of Fame, has won a Tony award, an Emmy and 15 Grammy awards in a 50-year career that has seen him sell more than 85 million records. Manilow's latest US hit album Night Songs II saw him join a unique list of artists to have had a charting album in each of the past six decades. Hipgnosis acquires music catalogue from Grammy-winning Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins His catalogue of songs include Mandy, his first US number one single in 1975, which has more than 65 million streams on Spotify, and Copacabana (At the Copa...

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