Music Business News: Japan

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

Sony EMI takeover investigation now underway, IMPALA hopes for ‘stiff opposition’

European Commission starts initial assessment

The major labels now turn over more than $1bn a month. But who’s ruling 2018?

Streaming revenues at the major labels have almost doubled over the past two years

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...

YouTube Music is on a worldwide recruitment blitz for senior executives

Over 15 senior music roles are currently advertised by Google-owned company