Sony In The News

‘We want to be as transparent as possible, and as global as possible.’

Sony Music Publishing's Johnny Tennander on staying creative, and running the firm's Scandinavian company during a pandemic

Actually… Universal Music Group spent nearly $3 BILLION on catalog acquisitions and artist advances last year

Vivendi's annual report shows that UMG splashed out $2.87 billion on catalogs and artist advances in 2020

Indian rapper Badshah was the world’s No.1 songwriter on YouTube last year, says new report

Second biggest songwriter on YouTube last year was Tones and I, shows Blokur data

Chris Brown sued for alleged copyright infringement by UK music publisher

Greensleeves Publishing sues US superstar and Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment inks strategic partnership with Roblox

Partnership follows collaborations in the past year including the Lil Nas X Virtual Concert and Zara Larsson Launch Party

UK Music industry Veteran Charlie Rapino appointed Vice President of Italy’s Artist First

Rapino will assume overall responsibility for A&R and talent acquisition

Maneskin might be the music industry story of 2021… but they just split from their manager

Maneskin now count over 29m monthly listeners on Spotify

Kobalt: We are profitable

Firm makes announcement as MBW gets its hands on firm's FY2020 financials