As HYBE raises $80m for its gaming business, could it try to emulate Sony Corp’s cross-media strategy?
MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points ...
Tag: Sony
Sony unfazed by streaming music revenue growth slowdown in calendar Q2
As covered by MBW earlier today (August 7), Sony’s global music rights operation posted double-digit growth for calendar Q2 (fiscal ...
Sony generated $2.54bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q2, up 11.4% YoY; recorded music streaming revenues up 5.0% YoY
Sony’s global music rights operation – across recorded music and music publishing – generated USD $2.54 billion in the three ...
Apollo leads $700m investment into Sony Music Group partnership. (It’s a kind of magic!)
Earlier this month, MBW reported that senior music biz sources were telling us that Apollo Global Management had part-financed Sony ...
Jason Iley MBE, Chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK & Ireland, will receive this year’s Music Industry Trusts Award
Jason Iley MBE, the Chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK & Ireland, will receive this year’s Music Industry Trusts ...
Sony Music is in the process of taking control of Queen’s UK-based companies
Sony Music’s landmark Queen catalog acquisition is getting closer and closer to becoming ‘official’.According to reports over the past few ...
Sony Music Japan and Bandai Namco target anime music piracy site Hikari-no-Akari in US federal court
Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Bandai Namco Music Live, a producer of anime and record label owner, are trying to ...
From Sony Music’s mystery Queen catalog co-investor to UMG’s neural beats patent application… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines ...
Sony Music’s mystery Queen catalog co-investor is Apollo, say sources
Sony Music Group is on the verge of pulling off the biggest artist catalog deal in music history.The company has ...
YouTube in talks with Sony, Universal, Warner to license music for AI tools (report)
This week we witnessed a seminal moment in the awkward relationship between the music industry and AI tech, when recording ...
