The Grammy-winning producer Rodney Jerkins, better known in the music industry as Darkchild, has sold the royalty rights to his storied catalog to Harbourview Equity Partners. However, the deal, which comes just weeks ahead of Jerkins’ much-deserved induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, is as much a personal milestone as it is a professional one in a career that has helped shape the sound of R&B and pop.
For fans of Brandy and Monica’s eternal duet “The Boy Is Mine” or Destiny’s Child’s anthem “Say My Name,” this move lands like one of those indelible hooks. Now, Harbourview owns the keys to the kingdom in terms of royalty income from those bestseller classics and many other records that have formed a considerable part of the cultural soundtrack from the past three decades.
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Jerkins, who has worked with folks like Justin Bieber and Sam Smith, said he was seeking a collaborator who could respect the heart behind the hits, someone who respected the music and the maker. “Harbourview is a company that truly respects music and the people who make it,” Jerkins told The Hollywood Reporter. “Music creators ought to have credibility and transparency when selling their life’s work, and working with both HarbourView and Chapter Two has been a seamless experience,” he said.
Under the direction of leader Sherrese Clarke Soares, Harbourview has quietly and efficiently amassed a deep catalog of culturally rich music over the past two years, scooping up rights from studios and artists, including T-Pain, Wiz Khalifa, Kane Brown, Full Force, and Jeremih. It’s part of an inescapable reality in the industry now, as more and more legacy artists and producers choose to cash out on their catalogs, trading years of royalty trickles for immediate chunks of change and yet, hopefully, with their work preserved for generations to come.
And with Jerkins, the timing could not be more poetic. His imminent induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 12, 2025, is not simply a celebration of hits and hardware; it’s; it’s an acknowledgment of the fingerprint that Preston put into the sound of a time. With a résumé spanning decades and genres, his music is the DNA of pop and R&B. Selling a catalog is never just a business decision but also an emotional one. But for Jerkins, the move reads as both a legacy cemented and a future unburdened.
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