Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Fergie, Timbaland, + more - Songwriting Royalties

This asset is a lifetime buyout of public performance royalties on a hip-hop and R&B catalog featuring Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Fergie, Chris Brown, Rick Ross, and others. The anchor is "Anaconda," Nicki Minaj's 2014 single and one of the most-streamed female rap recordings of the streaming era. Eleven years after its release, the catalog earned nearly $3,970 in public-performance royalties over the last twelve months, with Anaconda still its primary driver. The thesis is durability — and the rare chance to own rights in a record this widely recognized.

Most songwriter catalogs past a ten-year Dollar Age fade into the long tail or rebuild around new placements. This one did neither. "Anaconda" has accounted for 60–78% of annual income since 2019, with catalog totals between $4,300 and $5,400 in each of the last six years. The viral moment didn't settle into the long tail; it set up camp there and kept earning.

The earnings travel, too. 45% of the last twelve months (LTM) came from outside the US — the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Italy, and Japan — a balanced split for a US-anchored hip-hop catalog, and a sign of genuine global consumption.

The headline number deserves context. LTM came in at $3,966, down 26% year-over-year — but about 40% of that gap is a known, temporary cause: the prior period included roughly $580 of live-performance income tied to Nicki Minaj's 2024 world tour, which goes quiet between tour cycles and isn't expected to recur annually. Strip out the tour effect, and LTM runs about 13% below the three-year average — some real decay on an aging hit, but nothing that disturbs six years of steady totals. In other words, the current run rate reflects normalized performance, not peak-cycle results.

For a buyer, that's the opportunity: a catalog with recognizable titles, a proven multi-year earnings history, and genuine global reach, priced off current performance rather than a tour-inflated high. Eleven years in, the anchor is still earning thousands a year, the supporting tracks hold their share, and six years of steady annual totals say the floor is real.

The catalog captures a stretch of major-label hip-hop, R&B, and pop songwriting from roughly 2013 through the late 2010s, with one undisputed cultural anchor and a deep roster of recognizable names beneath it.

The anchor is "Anaconda," the 2014 lead single from Nicki Minaj's The Pinkprint. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, set the then-record for most Vevo views in 24 hours, and remains one of the most-streamed female rap recordings of the streaming era, still the catalog's primary earner more than a decade on.

What gives the catalog depth is the company it keeps. "I Been On" is the back half of Beyoncé's 2013 two-part single "Bow Down / I Been On," which first dropped on her Tumblr in March 2013; "Bow Down" was later folded into "***Flawless" on her self-titled visual album that same year. The track went on to open her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour and appears here as a live performance on HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM (2019), captured from her 2018 Coachella set. "MILF Money" lands on Fergie's Double Dutchess (2017), "See You Around" on Chris Brown's Grammy-nominated X, "If They Knew" as a Rick Ross track, and "Moving Mountains" on Syd's work with The Internet. "Long Way Home," featured on Fox's Star, adds an ongoing TV-broadcast component.

The throughline is a working songwriter catalog tied to genuinely recognizable artists — Beyoncé, Fergie, Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Timbaland — from a window when those releases drove the streaming and broadcast volume that still anchors today's earnings.