15% – 20%
The percentage in royalties that Apple Corps—the Beatles’ holding company controlled by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison—receives on licensed Beatles products. In 2018, full rights to the Beatles’ songs revert to McCartney and the Lennon estate. Michael Jackson outbid McCartney for the rights in 1985, paying nearly $50 million.
