Sony Music Group In The News

Robin Nastri named SVP, Global Business Office at Sony Music Publishing

Exec joins SMP from Accenture

From Universal’s missing catalog on TikTok Music to Graham Nash’s catalog sale… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

TikTok Music just launched publicly in Australia, Singapore and Mexico… without Universal Music’s catalog

Universal's recorded music catalog remains available on TikTok Music in Brazil and Indonesia

Former Syco MD’s Funfair Records inks marketing and distribution deal with AWAL

Funfair is backed by Coran Capshaw and James Sandom at Red Light Management

BMI will pay songwriters and publishers a smaller portion of its revenues as a for-profit company – while upping its own margin from 10% to 15% of collections. Will its members tolerate this change?

New revelations from Michael O'Neill shows that BMI is planning to increase its retained revenues by a third

Lanre Masha appointed Director, West Africa at The Orchard

Exec is stationed at the company’s Lagos office

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Major record companies issue statements condemning terrorist attacks in Israel

Major recording companies and the Recording Academy condemn the atrocious attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Israel over the weekend

Ryan Tedder calls Lindgren ‘the German wunderkind’. Now they’ve inked a partnership deal – as Lindgren renews his agreement with Sony Music Publishing

Deal expands long-standing relationship with SMP