Sony In The News

Primary Wave buys Bob Dylan’s share of The Traveling Wilburys

Included in the deal are Dylan’s master royalties and neighboring rights royalties for both Traveling Wilburys albums, as well as the 2007 box set

Sony generated $1.99bn from recorded music and music publishing in calendar Q1, up 13.5% YoY

MBW calculates growth in Sony's music publishing and recorded music revenues in calendar Q1

Pink Floyd considering sale of recorded music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, say Bloomberg sources

Warner bought control of Pink Floyd with Parlophone. But not, it seems, for the long term.

Confirmed: Sony Music paid Universal €102 million for stake in Todd Moscowitz’s Alamo Records

A new nugget of information emerges - and MBW does the math

Splice Chief Music Officer Maria Egan exits, joins Riot Games as Global Head of Music & Events

Egan was previously Chief Music Officer at Splice since 2020

UnitedMasters, valued at $550m, just launched its own beat marketplace

Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters launches Beat Exchange, a platform for buying and selling beats

Sony Music Publishing UK signs Ed Sheeran co-writer Kal Lavelle to global deal

Kal Lavelle co-wrote Ed Sheeran’s No.1 hit Shivers

Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies.

MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine