Skee-Lo’s “I Wish” Royalties Sold for $245k

Skee-Lo‘s famous 1995 single “I Wish” is about to put some money in someone’s pocket … because the royalties just sold on the open market.

The songwriter royalty streams for the iconic hip-hop song just went up for sale through the Royalty Exchange with an initial asking price of $375k — but, apparently, that number was too high … for everyone. The eventual buyer dropped a mere $245,000 to scoop up the rights for “I Wish”. Quite the bargain!

The deal is similar, in principle anyway, to the mega-transaction Bruce Springsteen pulled off this week — selling ALL his publishing and royalty rights to Sony for $500 million.

As for Skee-Lo … we’re told his hit track’s recently been paying off more due to increased plays on streaming services — “I Wish” has been streamed more than 103 million times on Spotify alone, and the royalties paid out nearly $28k in the past 12 months.

Skee-Lo released the song way back in 1995 and it was an instant hit, rising up the charts and eventually earning a Grammy nomination.

You know how it goes … “I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her, I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four Impala.”