{"id":55103,"date":"2019-01-03T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=55103"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:14:34","slug":"merck-mercuriadis-buys-again-as-hipgnosis-snaps-up-giorgio-tuinfort-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/merck-mercuriadis-buys-again-as-hipgnosis-snaps-up-giorgio-tuinfort-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck Mercuriadis buys again, as Hipgnosis snaps up Giorgio Tuinfort catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, the publicly-traded UK company set up by veteran artist manager\u00a0Merck Mercuriadis, has acquired another catalog from a songwriter.<\/p>\n

This time, it’s the repertoire of multiple Grammy winner Giorgio Tuinfort, who has written 23 No.1 singles and has won the prestigious BMI Songwriter Award 30 times.<\/p>\n

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Hipgnosis has acquired 100% of Giorgio Tuinfort\u2019s interest in the catalogue, which is comprised of 182 songs in total.<\/p>\n

The set includes more than 15 UK Top 10 singles performed by David Guetta (pictured), including 6 number No.1s.<\/p>\n

In addition to David Guetta, the catalog includes songs written for Gwen Stefani, Sia, Emeli Sand\u00e9, Nicki Minaj, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Rihanna, Avicii, Usher, Will.i.am, Akon and Lionel Richie.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiorgio is arguably the most underrated hit songwriter of the last 20 years.”<\/p>\n

Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Merck Mercuriadis, Founder of The Family (Music) Limited and Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, said: \u201cGiorgio is arguably the most underrated hit songwriter of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

“He could just as easily be composing a piano concerto as co-writing magnificent pop like \u201cThe Sweet Escape\u201d for Gwen Stefani or \u201cOne Last Time\u201d for Ariana Grande. He has quietly been the partner of choice for everyone from Akon to David Guetta and has been instrumental, literally, in their incredible successes. For me \u201cTitanium\u201d is as sophisticated as pop can get. Giorgio\u2019s work is sublime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giorgio Tuinfort, said: \u201cTo entrust someone with your musical life work is like entrusting someone with your child; only a person with integrity and high values can bear that responsibility. That\u2019s Merck to me. A visionary, but most of all a man who recognises the value of one of mankind\u2019s greatest gifts; music. My catalogue is simply in the best hands it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hipgnosis made a string of acquisitions after floating on the London Stock Exchange last year, including interest in catalogs from\u00a0Chic co-founder<\/a>\u00a0Bernard Edwards,\u00a0songwriter Jason Boyd\u00a0<\/a>(aka Poo Bear), British songwriting and\u00a0music production team TMS,\u00a0<\/a>and a 75% stake in the catalog of The-Dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGiorgio is arguably the most underrated hit songwriter of the last 20 years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4908,4002,182],"class_list":["post-55103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hipgnosis","tag-merck-mercuriadis","tag-publishing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}