Sony In The News

Social audio company Gimme Radio raises $3m

Previous investors include iHeartMedia and The Orchard

Sony Music Launches RCA Records Greater China

Kevin Foo appointed Managing Director

‘In country, I feel like the magic of songwriting is still very apparent and very dominant.’

MBW profiles country music writing royalty Ashley Gorley as part of our World's Greatest Songwriters series

Hannah Dudley named Head of Artist Promotion and Marketing at amuse

The hire follows what amuse calls a "year of growth" for the label, which has 5000+ tracks within its catalog of licensed music, it says

From Sony and Warner’s calendar Q1 results to TikTok’s A&R recruitment drive: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

BMG and Warner competing for Pink Floyd catalog, which could fetch more than Bruce Springsteen’s $500m+ deal (report)

FT reports that bids are flying in above the half-billion-dollar mark

‘What is currently an opaque black box of song royalties, needs to be transformed into a glass box.’

The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK's Music Managers Forum

Sony Music Publishing teams with Domain Capital to acquire career-spanning catalog from hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. (MBW’s sources put the deal at $40m.)

Gorley had three cuts featured on the standard version of the biggest album in the US last year, Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album