Sony In The News

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

Streaming fraud detection platform Beatdapp raises $17m, inks partnership with Universal Music Group

Beatdapp plans to use the latest funding to recruit senior leaders, expand its data science and technical teams, and venture into new markets

Triller owes music rightsholders more than $23m (which it doesn’t have the cash to pay). Oh, and it’s just purged 200m bot/duplicate accounts from its platform. Oh, and it still wants to IPO.

Four of Triller's most surprising declarations from its S-1 filing with the SEC