Tag: sony music

BeatStars is more than just a production marketplace: it's moving into music publishing in partnership with Sony Music Publishing

Major labels are very keen to strike licensing deals with fitness tech startups, but they’re equally unkeen about the idea of other kinds of fitness brands using their music without the necessary agreements. Witness Sony...

Major labels have been taking a shellacking in recent times over artists, contracts and streaming royalties. However, Sony Music’s recent announcement of its ‘Legacy Unrecouped Balance Program’ was welcomed...

Keen followers of recent music industry legal news will enjoy the last couple of lines of Roblox’s announcement of a new partnership with Sony Music. “Roblox respects the rights of all creators and uses advanced...

Newspaper investigations of big companies take a lot of time, resources and careful attention to legal issues, and many – often related to the latter – don’t ultimately get published. When they do, their impact...

Spotify has evolved from a pure music-streaming service to an 'audio-first' platform including podcasts and live audio. Perhaps major labels will go down a similar evolutionary path. Sony Music is the latest to beef up...

One of the talking points at the recent UK inquiry into music streaming economics was whether more labels should write off unrecouped balances from the pre-streaming era, and thus ensure more artists start to receive royalties...

At the NY:LON Connect conference earlier this year, Warner Music Group’s Oana Ruxandra talked about three key pillars of new revenues for that label group: social, gaming and fitness. But WMG is far from alone in seeing...

Sony Music has completed its acquisition of distributor Awal, and says it will become a new division within the company’s artist and label services arm “enhanced by the technology and network” of its new...

We first wrote about Fave as one of this year’s cohort of startups taking part in the Techstars Music accelerator. We described it as focusing on ‘superfan gamification’ then, but now we know a little more about...

Dealmaking in China’s digital music ecosystem is changing fast, moving on from the time when big labels would license their catalogues exclusively to one streaming company, which would in turn sub-license it to its rivals....

Lead: Historically,  DSPs – tech platforms with slightly younger, early-adopter user bases – were a place where electronic artists readily found success. So what are the best approaches to DSP marketing of electronic...