Duetti Opens Nashville Office on Music Row, Lowering Catalog Deal Threshold to Six Months
Duetti, a music-catalog investment firm, has opened a new office at 1604 16th Ave. S on Nashville's Music Row, bringing its A&R, publishing and marketing teams under one roof in a city where it has already partnered with more than 50 artists and songwriters. Billboard reported the opening on 25 August 2026.
The firm marked the launch with a dinner at Geist, a Nashville restaurant.
Founded in 2022 by CEO Lior Tibon and COO Christopher Nolte, Duetti buys into music catalogues — the bundles of recorded and publishing rights that generate royalties whenever a song is streamed, sold, or placed in film and television. To date, it has partnered with over 1,100 creators worldwide, according to Billboard. Tibon told the outlet the company is approaching 100 full-time employees globally.
Nashville is not a single-genre bet for the firm. Of Duetti's deals with Nashville-based artists and songwriters, approximately 30% are in country music, 29% in pop, and 12% each in folk/Americana and rap. The company has also earned over 5 million playlist followers across its user-generated playlist network on Spotify, and secured sync placements — the licensing of music for use in visual media — on Netflix, Showtime, SEGA and Apple TV+.
Alongside the office opening, Duetti announced it has lowered the threshold on the master side to six months for engaging in catalog deals. That means the firm can acquire master recording rights from catalogues that have been generating revenue for as little as half a year, rather than requiring the longer track records typical of catalogue deals. The change widens the pool of music the firm can buy into, particularly for independent artists whose catalogues are newer.
Prior to the Nashville opening, Record of the Day reported that Duetti had secured $200 million in funding to scale its independent music-catalog acquisitions and enhance its platform capabilities. That source, undated, also cited a 65-person team across Nashville and London — a figure that predates Tibon's more recent statement to Billboard that the company is nearing 100 employees worldwide.
What stands out here is the speed. A firm founded four years ago, approaching nine figures in headcount and working with over a thousand creators, has decided that Music Row — the historic nerve centre of the country-music industry — is where its next chapter sits. And it is doing so with a genre spread that treats Nashville as a pop and rap town too, not just a country one. For independent artists and songwriters, the lowered six-month threshold means a catalogue does not need decades of history to attract investment. For the broader catalogue market, it adds another well-capitalised buyer competing for rights that were, until recently, the preserve of the three major labels and a handful of legacy funds.
