{"id":532756,"date":"2026-03-19T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532756\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:20:10","slug":"tina-turners-name-image-likeness-and-most-music-catalog-rights-acquired-by-pophouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532756\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Turner’s name, image, likeness and most music catalog rights acquired by Pophouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Pophouse Entertainment has acquired Tina Turner’s <\/a>name, image and likeness rights as well as the majority share of her music catalog rights from music company BMG, it announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Swedish company, co-founded by ABBA\u2019s Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus,<\/a> is known for their digital avatars and immersive experiences.<\/p>\n

Pophouse CEO Jessica Koravos would not disclose the deal\u2019s financial details or describe the company\u2019s plans for the Turner acquisition but told The Associated Press \u201cthat one of the reasons that we were so interested in Tina is because she has such an incredible visual presence and such an incredible stage energy. And so, we\u2019re very much looking at projects that can portray that and try to recreate that to some degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we want to do is really help to consolidate her legacy,\u201d she added. \u201cI think that Tina Turner is up there, or is going to be up there, with the Elvises and the Marilyn Monroes of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Koravos would not confirm if a digital avatar is on the way. She did say Pophouse will announce plans in the next six months.<\/p>\n

Turner, known as the \u201cQueen of Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll\u201d for her chart-topping hits such as \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It,\u201d \u201cThe Best\u201d and \u201cProud Mary,\u201d died in 2023<\/a> at 83. Across her multidecade career, Turner won 12 Grammy Awards<\/a> \u2014 including a Lifetime Achievement Award \u2014 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and 2021, was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005 and sold over 150 million records worldwide.<\/p>\n

Conversations for the Pophouse deal began after her death. Koravos told the AP that BMG still holds a percentage of her catalog. She said Turner\u2019s estate was not involved \u201cas a counterparty but certainly involved and in the sense of informed and participating in the conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTina Turner\u2019s voice and spirit shaped modern music and popular culture,\u201d Alistair Norbury, president of BMG U.K., Continental Europe and APAC, wrote in a statement. \u201cOur responsibility, alongside Pophouse and the Estate, is to ensure her work continues to resonate with audiences around the world, while remaining true to the strength, independence and originality that defined her career.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of many musical investments<\/p>\n

Pophouse has been making investments outside of Sweden as of late. In 2024, hard rock quartet Kiss<\/a> sold their catalog, brand name and intellectual property to Pophouse in a deal estimated to be over $300 million. Previously, the band partnered with Pophouse to develop digitized avatars<\/a> of themselves, which they revealed onstage at the final night of their 2023 farewell tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cutting-edge technology was created by George Lucas\u2019 special-effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, in partnership with Pophouse. The same companies teamed up for the \u201cABBA Voyage\u201d show<\/a> in London, where fans could attend a full concert by the Swedish band in their heyday, as performed by their own digital avatars.<\/p>\n

Also in 2024, Cyndi Lauper entered a partnership with Pophouse, which included the sale of the majority share of her music.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost suits, when you tell them an idea, their eyes glaze over, they just want your greatest hits,\u201d Lauper told the AP at Pophouse\u2019s Stockholm<\/a> headquarters at the time. \u201cBut these guys are a multimedia company, they\u2019re not looking to just buy my catalog, they want to make something new.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what interests artists, and the estates of artists in some cases, is that there aren\u2019t very many people who are talking to them about what they want to achieve, creatively, around their body of work,\u201d Koravos says. \u201cSo I think that is interesting to people, it\u2019s interesting to artists, who have got creative projects in their heads that they would like some support realizing. And those are the people we\u2019re interested in talking to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to be a major (label),\u201d she adds. \u201cIt\u2019s not a volume game for us. We want to acquire 10 or 12 really unique properties that have even more unique projects attached to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Pophouse Entertainment has acquired Tina Turner’s name, image and likeness rights as well as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-532756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}