Music Business News: Japan

These might be the 5 most powerful people in the music business – despite none of them working in the music business

Who are the bosses of the music industry's bosses?

Why has Sony Music just launched a streaming service (and Spotify rival) in Japan?

Streaming has overtaken downloads in revenue terms for first time this year in the market

Sony Music launches its own streaming service in Japan

The new service is called Mora Qualitas and will be powered by Rhapsody's Napster platform

Sony completes $2.3bn deal to acquire EMI Music Publishing

EMI now becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony

What’s the value of a song when Artificial Intelligence is everywhere?

'AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.'

Sony Music revenues up 5.8% so far this year, sales dipped slightly in last quarter

Streaming revenues shoot up 26% in the first nine months of 2018

Sony $2.3bn takeover of EMI Music Publishing gets green light in Europe

Deal takes Sony's ownership of publishing copyrights above 4m

Merlin distributions to label members in Japan increase 200% year-on-year

The independent label agency opened its Tokyo office in October 2016