Sony Music Publishing In The News

Inside Sony Music Publishing’s flagship creative hub for songwriters in Los Angeles

Sony Music Publishing has opened a new office space and creative hub for songwriters in Los Angeles.

‘Super-Premium’ music subscription tiers coming in 2025, and 3 other things we learned from Universal Music’s Boyd Muir at the Morgan Stanley conference

UMG has 1,300 stores in its direct-to-consumer business, and the profit margins are huge

Dan Nigro on changing the pop landscape with Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan

The hottest-to-go songwriter around right now talks to MBW about writing some of the biggest hits of the last few years, TikTok and launching his own label

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Amazon Music to bundle Audiobooks from Audible – and unlike Spotify’s bundling move, publishers say it won’t decrease revenue for songwriters

Audible’s library includes a US catalog of more than 1 million audiobooks

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Audio and video collab platform Pibox raises $1.2M, joins Google for Startups program

Pibox says its tools have led to an 86% increase in team efficiency “and sparked new and better ideas"

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Sony generated $2.55bn from recorded music and publishing in Q3, up 9.6% YoY

Company's global recorded music revenues were up over 10% YoY

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From Ed Sheeran’s speech to UMG vs. TuneCore… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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

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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.