Justin Bieber Was On Verge Of Financial Collapse … Before $200M Music Catalog Sale

https://www.tmz.com/2025/05/15/justin-bieber-financial-collapse-sell-music-catalog-broke/

35 comments

  1. I would imagine it was nearly broke in the context of a millionaire.

    Not broke like us normal people lol

  2. Someone who was raised poor got ripped off in the music industry?

    No way, I am very very shocked.

  3. How? The guy was owning his songs and he has some of the most succesfull songs of the 2010’s, how come that wasn’t regularly giving him money?? Like on radio play in the US alone he must make millions…

    Edit: just realised that this isn’t the 2000’s anymore and radio play might not be an important thing anymore.

  4. I wonder how much money he spends on average in a month?

  5. If you have that many fans and can’t make profit, that’s on you. 

  6. A lot of us “normies” can be approximately three months away from being homeless. I doubt he was anywhere near that.

  7. That poor guy. I have $130 in my checking account.

  10. I have been on the verge of financial collapse every day for 30 years.

  11. Man with 200M asset was on the verge of financial collapse.

  12. Shit, I should just sell my 200 million dollar music catalogue. 

  13. Damn, the last time I was under financial collapse I had to sell my Nintendo GameCube.

  14. “Things are getting really tight. I’m in such dire straights, with nothing to show for myself but this fabergé egg collection.”

  15. Sure, I can see that. But, why didn’t he just go in tour? Taylor made over a billion on her your seems like biebs could have cheated 100 million without putting too terribly much effort in.

    If I need money, I work harder. I guess I could sell my tea pot collection instead.

  16. I would take this with a grain of salt, ya’ll..

    I don’t care enough to provide a source or plead a case BUT apparently the PR firm that Blake Lively hired to smear Justin Baldoni in the media is co-owned by Scooter Braun. Remember his beef with Taylor Swift?

    I mean, she had to re-record all of her albums that literally nobody asked for…Justin sells his catalog to Spotify and spoken about how fucked up the music industry is (I’m basing this off of one Bieber/Eilish interview 😅)..

    It isn’t entirely crazy to imagine a deal that went sour and some egos were hurt.

    Damn..my Belieber is showing. This was fun to write 🙂

    And that’s the tea 🍵

    Edit: sausage fingers

  18. in my very most Chris Crocker voice… *LEAVE BIEBER ALONE… LEAVE HIM ALONE*

  19. Man, so many people without empathy in this thread.

    I have never cared for Bieber’s music or image or whatever. But let’s be real: this guy was surrounded by predators his entire life. Large sums of money shifting in and out of his control (directly or indirectly) doesn’t offset the psychological damage done by predators and grifters. And remember that when most of this shit was going down in the early stages of his career, he was a literal child: he placed trust in people who promised him he could trust them.

    Taking shots at famous people is easy. Empathy isn’t. Personally, I wouldn’t trade my very average life for this dude’s fame and fortune, ever. He didn’t just “get” $200M. He’s constantly in the spotlight, every single day, whether he wants to be or not. How is a person supposed to grow under that kind of scrutiny and without any kind of objective role model who isn’t constantly trying to squeeze money out of him? I dunno, maybe I’m naive.

  20. When you saw this rush of artists selling their music catalogues a lot of people were saying this.

  23. I think you ment to say, “Justin Bieber still on the verge of financial collapse after selling music catalog for only $200 million.”

  24. I feel bad for the guy. If he cashed out for 200 mil at the end of ‘22, he very well could have blown through most of it by now. Shame he didn’t have better people wisely watching and investing all along the way.

  25. I don’t get why he didn’t at least take his managers and just wait a single month to sell to get a better tax break. That’s the part that really confuses me. 

  26. Who do celebs go broke in this day and age? You’d think they’d have their pick of any top tier financial advisor.

  27. It’s crazy for someone who’s rich supposedly going broke. 99.9% of the time they’re still driving more expensive cars than me and living in a bigger house. So how broke can they be? Cut some unnecessary expenses and you’re set.

  28. And yet he still is broke, claiming he cant pay his debts?

  29. The parties, the girls, the nose candy. That stuff burns through your cash fast. Now he looks homeless with money.

    Next in line is Floyd Mayweather. Fools with money.

  30. If you own $200 million worth of stuff… you can’t be on the verge of financial collapse.

  31. So what he can only spend 2 million dollars a year for the rest his life?

  33. In reality that 200 mil is probably a massive discount in terms of how much they’ll make off of it for the next 30 years on royalties and all

  34. You need 200 million dollars to save yourself? Okay.

  35. My entire life exists on the verge of financial collapse.

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