The Family (Music) Limited, an advisory board that included Mercuriadis, Rodgers, Starrah, The-Dream, David A. The company was named after Hipgnosis, the art and design group founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell. Mercuriadis stated in a February 2019 interview: 'Nile and I, one day, just started riffing off of these ideas of how do we change this system, how do change what’s going on today where the songwriter – who provides the most important component in an artist having success – is the lowest person on the totem pole?' Mercuriadis believed that a rights and song management company with substantial assets could change the existing economics of publishing for songwriters, and in 2018, building capital by offering investors pure-play exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights in place, Hipgnosis Songs Fund was formally founded. Hipgnosis Songs Fund was founded by Merck Mercuriadis, who has managed artists including Elton John, Iron Maiden, Morrissey, Beyoncé, and Nile Rodgers. History 2018: Founding, debut on London Stock Exchange 1.4 2021: Valuation, Blackstone Group Investment.1.3 2020: Acquisition of Kobalt Capital, Hipgnosis Songs Group, FTSE 250 Index.1.2 2019: Acquisitions, second and third raise, listing on LSE Premium segment.1.1 2018: Founding, debut on London Stock Exchange.It has been a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index since March 2020. Hipgnosis Songs Fund was listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in July 2018 and transferred to the premium segment of the main market in November 2019. By December 2021, its catalogue had grown to 65,000 songs worth $2.55 billion. As of January 2021, Hipgnosis owned or partially owned more than 57,000 songs.

In July 2020, it was reported that the Hipgnosis music rights portfolio, consisting of approximately 13,300 songs, had been independently valued at more than £760 million. Five songs co-owned by Hipgnosis Songs Fund appeared in the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 of the decade chart. At the close of its first full year as a publicly traded company, its catalogue totaled more than 5,000 songs of those, approximately 2,000 had been #1 hits somewhere in the world, and 4,000 had reached the Top 10. Hipgnosis Songs Fund has raised £1.052 billion to fund acquisitions since it was established in 2018. In addition to acquiring songs and songwriter catalogues, the company manages the playlist, cover, interpolation, and synchronization revenues of its IP. Focused on songs and associated musical intellectual property rights, it was founded on the premise that hit songs are long-term predictable assets unaffected by economic cycles that will increase in value as the worldwide music streaming market grows. Hipgnosis Songs Fund is a British Guernsey-registered music IP investment and song management company founded by Merck Mercuriadis and Nile Rodgers in 2018.

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