Christine McVie Royalties Acquired by Management Company

Christine McVie music royalties from her share of the Fleetwood Mac catalog have been acquired by HarbourView Equity Partners.

Based in New Jersey, HarbourView Equity Partners touts itself as "a long-term investor in content with an industrial platform that licenses, optimizes, and strives to enhance and protect the legacy of premium IP."

McVie's songwriting credits in the Fleetwood Mac catalog include some of the band's biggest hits. Among them are "Little Lies," "Songbird," "Don't Stop," "Say You Love Me" and "You Make Loving Fun."

In August 2021, McVie sold her 115-title song catalog to Hipgnosis for an undisclosed sum. At the time, McVie said in a statement about the deal, "I am so excited to belong to the Hipgnosis family, and thrilled that you all regard my songs worthy of merit. I’d like to thank you all for your faith in me, and I’ll do all I can to continue this new relationship and help in any way I can!"

In November 2022, McVie died suddenly at age 79. It was later revealed her main cause of death was due to a massive stroke. Secondary causes to McVie's death included Atrial Fibrillation and cancer.

Earlier this month, Stevie Nicks was asked in an interview with Vulture whether she could see Fleetwood Mac touring again. Nicks replied, "When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to."

Nicks added that if Fleetwood Mac continued, they would have to take McVie's songs out of the setlist. This is what the band did when McVie stepped away for 18 years. She noted that back then and now, no one in the band could step in for McVie on vocals.

Nicks' feelings about the future of Fleetwood Mac were echoed by Mick Fleetwood in February. He was asked on the Grammy Awards red carpet whether the band would continue to perform. Fleetwood said, "I think right now, I truly think the line in the sand has been drawn with the loss of Chris."

He added, "I'd say we're done, but then we've all said that before. It's sort of unthinkable right now."

For many, when Fleetwood Mac is mentioned, they immediately think of the contributions of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. However, Christine McVie is responsible for writing some of the band's best songs. Here just five Fleetwood Mac songs that she wrote/co-wrote.

"Don't Stop" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and would famously serve as the theme to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. The band was even persuaded to reunite for the first time since 1982 to perform “Don’t Stop” at the inaugural ball in 1993.

Fun fact: While “You Make Loving Fun” was written by Christine McVie about her affair with Fleetwood Mac’s lighting director, she told then-husband/bassist John McVie it was about her dog.

Christine McVie said of the moving piano ballad in a June 2017 interview with People, “For some peculiar reason I wrote ‘Songbird’ in half an hour. I’ve never been able to figure out how I did that. I woke up in the middle of the night and the song was there in my brain, chords lyrics melody, everything. I played it in my bedroom and didn’t have anything to tape it on. So I had to stay awake all night so I wouldn’t forget it and I came in the next morning to the studio and had [producer] Ken Callait put it on a 2-track. That was how the song ended up being. I don’t know where that came from. I wished it would happen more often, but it hasn’t.”

“Oh Daddy” was inspired by Mick Fleetwood, who was the only father in the band at that time, even though some allege the track was another track about McVie’s affair with Fleetwood Mac’s lighting director. According to Setlist.fm, the last time the band played the track live was on November 30, 1997 at the USAir Arena in Landover, MD. 

The last single released from 1975's Fleetwood Mac, "Say You Love Me" would peak on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #11.