Sony Music Entertainment In The News

Interscope hires ex-Sony Latin exec Nir Seroussi as Executive Vice President

He reports to Chairman and CEO John Janick

Michael Lynton expected to join Warner Music Group’s Board of Directors as Chairman

Ex-Sony Entertainment executive invited into Warner by Len Blavatnik for non-Exec role

Universal Music Group is being valued at $42bn – and could ignite a major label sales frenzy

The sale of up to 50% of UMG could tempt Sony and Warner to consider their options

Spotify hit 96m paying subscribers in 2018 – and just posted its first ever operating profit

Firm predicts that subscriber count will reach approximately 122m by end of 2019

Class action lawsuits filed in New York against Sony and Universal

The suits seek damages for copyright infringement and declaratory relief

Greenlight division of Bill Gates’ ad agency BEN secures global publicity rights for Whitney Houston

Greenlight is the icon representation and merchandise licensing division of Gates' Branded Entertainment Network

Amuse to pay AI-driven royalty advance money to independent artists

Diego Farias's company adds important financial service to offering

Music Modernization Act: Labels and publishers back NMPA’s bid to run new mechanical rights society

Universal, Sony and Warner, as well as indies, support publisher org's application