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Warner/Bain announce the Red Hot Chili Peppers catalog by Dec 31 2026

Do Warner Music Group and Bain Capital publicly announce an agreement to acquire the Red Hot Chili Peppers catalog on or before 2026-12-31?

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EHIQ

65%

Market

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Edge

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Thesis

What makes us wrong

a competing bid from Primary Wave or Hipgnosis producing a contested process

Warner and Bain stood up a joint vehicle of up to $1.2B for catalog acquisitions, and reporting attaches the Chili Peppers catalog to it as the first deal out of the gate. Multiples have settled to roughly 12-18x from the 18-25x 2021 peak, the condition that makes a flagship deal printable rather than aspirational.

Opened

August 16, 2026

Expected resolution

December 31, 2026

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