Photo Credit: Marty Robbins for Bishop M. Sykes & Associates Anthem Music Publishing announces the acquisition of legendary Country and Western singer-songwriter Marty Robbins’ song catalog. Anthem Music Publishing has acquired the catalog of songs […]
Photo Credit: Sabrina Carpenter by Raph PH / CC by 2.0 Sony Music Publishing is reportedly in the process of acquiring Hipgnosis Songs Group, according to sources close to the matter. Emails obtained by Billboard […]
Table of the Elements, the influential U.S. label that shut up shop in 2011, will relaunch this year as a curatorial platform, interdisciplinary production organization, and publishing house. A relaunch event at the Garden Cinema, […]
Downtown Music Publishing Africa managing director Thando Makhunga. Photo Credit: Seventwo Creative Agency Another high-profile expansion in Africa – this time from Downtown, which has rebranded its Sheer Publishing Africa subsidiary as Downtown Music Publishing […]
Photo Credit: Patrick Moxey, Founder and CEO, Payday Music Publishing Ultra International Music Publishing announces its name change to Payday Music Publishing following a court judgement in a case brought by Sony Music. Leading independent […]
Photo Credit: IMPF President Annette Barrett IMPF launches the fifth edition of its Global Market View for Independent Music Publishing at the organization’s annual event in Athens. IMPF’s Global Market View is the only report […]
Photo Credit: Katie Welle, Sounwave, MTech, Gary Biddy, Jordan Burg, Lauren Munroe / Sony Music Publishing Sony Music Publishing announces the signing of acclaimed producer MTech, in partnership with producer Sounwave, to a global publishing […]
Photo Credit: Anyma by Nicko Guihal Kobalt announces its partnership with acclaimed EDM artist and visionary live performer Anyma, fresh off his residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Leading independent music publisher Kobalt announces […]
Brandon Silverstein, who’s signed on as CEO of the newly minted Avex Music Group. Photo Credit: Hidefumi Hase Less than one year after investing in S10 Entertainment, Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex has acquired the company’s […]
Just weeks after completing a historic sold-out residency at the Vegas Sphere, Anyma has signed an exclusive global publishing deal with Kobalt, a strategic move that seeks to elevate his flourishing Afterlife empire. The timing […]
As he readies the release of the new Bon Iver album, SABLE, fABLE, Justin Vernon is also racking up some literary bona fides. Today, micro-distributed print magazine Little Engines announced that Vernon’s first-ever published poems […]
A live performance from Ultra Records-signed Icona Pop, whose ‘Stockholm At Night’ allegedly infringes on Ultra Publishing’s interest in the underlying composition. Photo Credit: Kim Metso The Ultra International Music Publishing v. Sony Music legal […]
A live performance from Ultra Records-signed Icona Pop, whose ‘Stockholm At Night’ allegedly infringes on Ultra Publishing’s interest in the underlying composition. Photo Credit: Kim Metso The Ultra International Music Publishing v. Sony Music legal […]
Photo Credit: Sony Music Publishing / TIPS Music Ltd. Sony Music Publishing has renewed its exclusive global deal with India’s TIPS Music. The deal is expanded to include YouTube worldwide, excluding India, as a key […]
Photo Credit: Ultra Records A federal judge rules that Patrick Moxey’s Ultra Music Publishing must change its name within six months for breaching Sony Music’s ‘Ultra’ trademark. Ultra Music Publishing, owned by Patrick Moxey, who […]
Photo Credit: Sony Music Publishing / Soneium Sony Music Publishing taps its Soneium blockchain to create NFTs for J-pop group Sandal Telephone. NFTs aren’t quite the source of hype in 2025 that they hoped to […]
Photo Credit: Arden Records (Andrew Kwan, Jordan Smith, sagun) Lo-fi specialists Arden Records announces an expansion with the launch of its new publishing arm to buoy its artists. Arden Records, whose name translates to “Great […]
Photo Credit: T-Pain by Glenn Francis (PacificProDigital) / CC by 4.0 T-Pain cuts a deal to sell his entire publishing catalog and select masters to asset management company HarbourView Equity Partners. HarbourView Equity Partners, the […]
A look at the latest music industry scuttlebutt on Spotify’s post-bundling renegotiations with major content owners – and how the calculus keeps shifting for every publisher, label, songwriter and artist on the field. If you […]
Photo Credit: Tori Amos by Kavita Kaul / Downtown Music Publishing Downtown Music Publishing announces a slew of expansions and renewals, including a renewed partnership with singer-songwriter Tori Amos. Under the renewed agreement, which was […]