Sony Music Group In The News

KGV Kiran Kumar promoted to Managing Director of The Orchard in India

Exec joined The Orchard in 2021

Sony Music sues cosmetics brand OFRA for using recordings by Mariah Carey, Britney Spears and other artists in social media ads without permission

Lawsuit was filed in Florida on Tuesday (October 31)

Spotify is embracing elements of Universal Music Group’s ‘artist-centric’ royalties model – following a new multi-year licensing deal between UMG and Daniel Ek’s platform

Spotify's plans fit with the broad hopes of Sir Lucian Grainge's wishes as outlined at the start of 2023

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