Headline is garbage. He has no interest in selling the back catalog, and that half-a-billion is speculative, they haven’t been offered that. Bowie only got 250M for his back catalog and he had far more UK Top 40s than the Stones, albeit in the US the Stones had 8 No. 1s to Bowie’s 2. Mick would rather have the pre-71 catalog in his possession, much like Macca finally got the Beatles catalog back from Sony/ATV in 2017.
So how does he make money off of his old songs from the 60’s and 70’s? Like maybe 20 cents each time a song is played on the radio? Just curious as to how this works.