Music from Popular Animated Series

This asset includes TV and film music cues anchored to a stretch of DreamWorks and animated-features series and films from the mid-2010s through 2021. Animated kids' content travels further and lasts longer than almost anything else in entertainment. Kids in Brazil are watching "All Hail King Julien" dubbed in Portuguese. Kids in Germany are streaming "The LEGO Ninjago Movie" in German. Kids in Sweden, the Philippines, Mexico, and Hungary are pulling up "Fast and Furious: Spy Racers" on Netflix in their local languages. Every one of those plays generates a performance royalty that flows through ASCAP back to this catalog. The result, over the last twelve months, is income from seventy-five countries — Germany, Canada, the UK, Sweden, France, Italy, Mexico, Australia and a long tail behind that — making up nearly three-quarters of total earnings. That international weight is the inverse of most US-based catalogs, and it's the reason this asset is worth a closer look.

The underlying work sits in a productive five-year window. "All Hail King Julien" — the Netflix series spin-off of DreamWorks' Madagascar franchise — anchors the catalog's largest earner. "The LEGO Ninjago Movie" sits second. Behind them: "Fast and Furious: Spy Racers" on Netflix, "Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh" (the Tip & Oh series from DreamWorks' "Home"), "Trolls: The Beat Goes On," "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," "Woody Woodpecker," and dozens more. This is the kind of evergreen kids' programming that streamers keep in rotation indefinitely because it's exactly what gets queued up on a Saturday morning, on a long flight, or on a rainy afternoon. 

There is an anomaly to note. The reported $8,046 in the last twelve months includes roughly $2,900 in non-recurring items — primarily a $2,256 back-payment from Brazil's PRO that settled in August 2025, along with a Netflix back-period settlement and several smaller German tax refunds. Strip those out and the recurring run-rate is closer to $5,100 over the trailing year, against about $8,400 in the prior twelve. That's a step down, driven mostly by domestic softening as the older Netflix originals age out of heavy rotation. 

The international base is genuinely durable. Animated kids' programming has the longest streaming half-life of any film and television category — these shows will be on Netflix and Amazon in 2030 and 2035 because Netflix and Amazon need them there. 

This asset earns you a catalog of animated cues, paying out of seventy-five countries, with thirty years of term remaining and a recurring run-rate that's already been disclosed and priced. A buyer who values long-dated kids' streaming income gets a settled, globally diversified ASCAP performance asset with a clear floor underneath it. The cool thing about kids' animation isn't that it spikes. It's that it doesn't quit.
 

This catalog captures a productive run of writing for animated film and television scoring, with the heaviest concentration in DreamWorks and Netflix-distributed properties from the mid-2010s through the early 2020s.

The anchor work sits with two animated properties: "All Hail King Julien," the Netflix series spin-off of the Madagascar films that ran from 2014 through 2017, and "The LEGO Ninjago Movie," the 2017 Warner Bros. theatrical release. "Who's Da King," the King Julien-associated cue, is the catalog's single largest earner across its lifetime; "Heroes" and "Heroes (Theme Song)" from the LEGO Ninjago Movie together make up another sizeable share.

A second tier of placements expanded the catalog from 2018 through 2021. "Fast and Furious: Spy Racers" — DreamWorks Animation's Netflix series running 2019–2021 — contributed main and end-title cues that still earn steadily. "Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh" (the Netflix series spun off from DreamWorks' "Home"), "Trolls: The Beat Goes On," "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," and "Woody Woodpecker" each added cue work that continues to earn from rebroadcasts and streaming.

The catalog also includes earlier work for MTV and Nickelodeon productions and a handful of hip-hop and pop-leaning compositions, but the financial weight is decisively in the animated-property cues from the 2017–2021 window.