Influence Media Closes $600 Million-Plus Anthem Catalog Deal

Influence Media Partners has closed a deal worth more than $600 million for substantially all of Anthem Entertainment's assets, one of the largest music-rights transactions in the independent sector this cycle.

The New York firm completed the acquisition in collaboration with funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. The package covers Anthem's music publishing catalogs, film and television publishing assets, and master recordings. The deal was first announced in July 2026, and the parties have now taken it over the finish line.

The scale is easy to understate. The acquired assets encompass more than 24,000 released songs plus another 60,000 unexploited works — material that has never generated meaningful income. Those numbers stretch Influence Media's holdings across recorded music, publishing and entertainment-related intellectual property in a single stroke.

What does the catalog actually contain?

Named titles give the clearest picture. The catalogs include:

• The Weeknd — "Die For You"
• Britney Spears — "Oops!… I Did It Again"
• Justin Timberlake — "SexyBack"
• Timbaland — "The Way I Are"
• Cody Johnson — "Til You Can't"
• Rush — "Tom Sawyer"
• Nelly Furtado — "Promiscuous"
• OneRepublic — "Counting Stars"

That's a range spanning country, rock, pop and hip-hop production credits — not a single-genre bet.

The transaction also pulls in released titles featured in film and television properties including Spider-Man, Breaking Bad and LEGO Ninjago. That piece matters structurally: it extends the acquisition beyond individual artist catalogs into music tied to established screen franchises, where sync licensing revenue tends to recur.

Who is Influence Media Partners?

The New York-based company invests in music and entertainment rights through partnerships with artists, songwriters and creative executives. Its existing portfolio already carries interests associated with Future, Enrique Iglesias, Blake Shelton, Tyler Johnson, Tainy, Jessie Reyez and Julia Michaels.

Its mandate is broader than buying old hits. Investment activities include name, image and likeness rights, plus publishing and recorded music rights connected with future work — meaning the firm buys into what creators will make, not only what they've already released. In 2024 it launched SLANG, an independent frontline record label and music publisher.

Leadership sits with founders and co-managing partners Lylelette Pizarro McLean and Rene McLean, alongside Co-Managing Partner Lynn Hazan. Jon Jashni serves as founding advisor and investor.

Why the 60,000 unexploited works matter

Most catalog deals price the hits. Here, more than 70 percent of the acquired songs by count — 60,000 of the roughly 84,000 works — have never been commercially worked. Influence Media is effectively paying for proven revenue on one end and optionality on the other: recordings and compositions it can place in film, television and new recordings without competing bids for the same exploitation.

Add the screen-franchise titles from Spider-Man, Breaking Bad and LEGO Ninjago, and the firm has bought sync infrastructure as much as a songbook.

What comes next

The completed Anthem acquisition substantially broadens Influence Media's collection of released songs, undeveloped works and entertainment publishing assets. With BlackRock-managed capital behind it and a frontline label in SLANG already operating since 2024, the firm now owns both a deep back catalog and a channel to develop the 60,000 unexploited works it just paid for.