Music Business News: United States

Sony generated $2.70 billion from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q4, as ATEEZ topped firm’s global sales chart

Sony’s global music rights operation – across recorded music and music publishing – generated USD $2.70 billion in the three months to end of December 2024. That’s according to MBW’s calculations based on Sony Group Corp’s calendar Q4 2024 (fiscal Q3) results, as announced by the Japanese firm today (February 13). The $2.70 billion figure … Continued

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Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case

However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers

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Kevin Ferguson appointed Senior Vice President, Technology at TuneCore

Ferguson previously led the engineering team at BentoBox and has also held leadership roles at Audible and other companies

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Sony Music Publishing renews global deal with K-Pop specialist The Hello Group Publishing

THG Publishing's roster of songwriters and producers are behind various K-Pop and J-Pop hits

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Neil Jacobson’s Hallwood Media inks JV with 9th St, the management company behind Rich Amiri

9th St's roster has amassed over 1.5 billion streams across various DSPs over the past 12 months

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Ex-Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy has sold $49m in company stock over the past three months, as Daniel Ek’s share sales hit $94m in 2025 alone

Spotify's stock price has been hitting record highs, propelling the company to a valuation of over $125 billion

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Laura Gonzalez promoted to VP Marketing at Disney Music Group

A 17-year veteran of DMG, Gonzales previously served as the company's Director of Marketing

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Henry Naldjian promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Sony Music Publishing

Exec to oversee company’s ongoing "technological transformation efforts"