Sony In The News

The major record companies (and Merlin) saw their Spotify market share fall again in 2023. Yet even before ‘artist-centric’ changes, this decline started slowing.

Spotify's annual report reveals an interesting trend around the joint market share of major record companies and Merlin on the platform

Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings joins forces with Create Music Group in multi-year deal

So So Def founder Jermaine Dupri will transition from CEO to Chairman of the company, retaining creative direction

Beggars Group, Secretly, Partisan Records among indie labels pushing back against Apple Music’s higher payouts for Spatial Audio (report)

"The new deal will badly impact our revenues," an indie record label executive says

Sony Music Publishing UK appoints ZaZa Kazadi, Adrienne Bookbinder, Nasra Artan to senior A&R roles

The new appointments come some two months after Sony Music Publishing UK reshuffled its A&R department

TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about)

What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out

Kenny Ong appointed Managing Director for Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore at Sony Music

Ong to spearhead the company's expansion and strategic development across the region

Primary Wave could buy a ‘music platform’. Here’s 4 ideas about what it might acquire…

Company teased that it was targeting a music platform last week. Which areas will it be considering?

Apple Music to pay artists up to 10% higher royalties for music available in Spatial Audio

Music available in Spatial Audio will now receive a greater share of royalties from Apple Music