Sony Music Entertainment In The News

‘We put a lot of time and pressure on ourselves to make our social media the best it can be, but at the end of the day, it’s a vanity project.’

The following is an extract from Sound Advice, a health-focused career guide for artists written by MBW Contributing Editor Rhian Jones and performance health and psychology coach Lucy Heyman

Jon Platt accepts International Executive of the Year honor, pays tribute to Sony Music Publishing, the songwriting community and more at MBW’s Music Business UK Awards

Yesterday evening (November 5) saw MBW's Music Business UK Awards take place in Covent Garden, celebrating the very best that the UK music biz has to offer.

Freddie Gibbs signs with AWAL, drops new album ‘You Only Die 1nce’

With the AWAL partnership, Gibbs will be able to retain ownership and control of his music

UMG sues Believe and TuneCore for $500 million, alleging ‘industrial-scale copyright infringement’

Lawsuit focuses on so-called 'manipulated' audio remixes of copyrighted tracks

Marco Paglia and Rio Caraeff appointed Co-Presidents of Musixmatch

Paglia and Caraeff will report to Max Ciociola, Musixmatch Founder and CEO

Sony Music acquires recorded music catalog of Egyptian superstar Amr Diab

Sony has also signed what it calls a 'forward-looking multi-album deal' with the artist

Chris Brown and Drake sued for at least $5m over alleged copyright infringement on ‘No Guidance’

'No Guidance' has been streamed more than 1 billion times on Spotify, and viewed more than 480 million times on YouTube

From Timbaland’s Suno partnership to UnitedMasters’ direct TikTok deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…