Music Business News: Japan
News Streaming has overtaken downloads in revenue terms for first time this year in the market News The new service is called Mora Qualitas and will be powered by Rhapsody's Napster platform News EMI now becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Analysis 'AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.' Analysis Streaming revenues shoot up 26% in the first nine months of 2018 News Deal takes Sony's ownership of publishing copyrights above 4m News The independent label agency opened its Tokyo office in October 2016 News European Commission starts initial assessment