Diplo, Twenty One Pilots Royalties to Back Bonds Sold by Chord

Diplo performs onstage during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

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Chord Music Partners, a firm which invests in music rights, is selling $500 million of bonds backed by royalties from artists including Twenty One Pilots, Diplo and Morgan Wallen.

The asset-backed securitiesBloomberg Terminal are tied to a catalog of more than 3,750 works from several artists, according to a Kroll Bond Rating Agency report, and is valued at about $830 million.