Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and many others have sold song catalogs for hundreds of millions of dollars. Primary Wave founder Larry Mestel — whose company handles the catalogs of Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, James Brown, Stevie Nicks and dozens more, and just got a $2 billion investment — talks about how to maximize the value of those catalogs.

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and many others have sold song catalogs for hundreds of millions of dollars. Primary Wave founder Larry Mestel — whose company handles the catalogs of Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, James Brown, Stevie Nicks and dozens more, and just got a $2 billion investment — talks about how to maximize the value of those catalogs.

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Now That You've Bought a Multi-Million Dollar Music Catalog, What Are You Going to Do With It? Primary Wave's Larry Mestel Explains

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On today&rsquo;s episode, as Los Angeles marks the one-year anniversary of the devastating Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires, NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff details the cathartic process of writing his <a href="https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/la-fires-recovery-misinformation-jacob-soboroff-book-1236624909/">new book, &ldquo;Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America&rsquo;s New Age of Disaster.&rdquo;</a>

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Now That You've Bought a Multi-Million Dollar Music Catalog, What Are You Going to Do With It? Primary Wave's Larry Mestel Explains

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