Sony Music Entertainment In The News

Industry mourns Aretha Franklin, who dies aged 76 after ‘transforming global culture’

Legendary artist had 20 No.1 singles on the US R&B chart

Universal Music Sweden appoints Jael Steinberg as Head of International

Sony Music exec jumps to rival to take up new position in Nordics

Amazon Music hires Andre Stapleton as Head of US Label Relations

Exec joins Amazon from Sony Music Entertainment

Sony’s EMI takeover ‘has to be blocked’ says IMPALA, as it files official EC complaint

Helen Smith and co voice regulatory concerns over the year's biggest music takeover

Warner sells entire stake in Spotify, crediting artists with $126m of the money

A quarter of total gets credited to artist accounts

The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter

Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...

Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour

And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...

Sony Music revenues topped $1.9bn in the first half of 2018, up 11% year-on-year

Streaming revenues hit $944m in the six month period, up 39.1% on 2017