Music Publishing

About five weeks after Sony Music Entertainment waived unrecouped debts for legacy artists, Sony Music Publishing has followed suit by waiving unrecouped debts for legacy songwriters. Sony Music Publishing ... Read More...

The Central Business District of Sydney, Australia, where Alberts is headquartered. Photo Credit: MDRX Sony Music Publishing is officially set to administer the entire catalog of AC/DC, as part of a broader p... Read More...

Photo Credit: Reservoir Music rights company Reservoir has acquired the producer catalog of Tom Werman. The New York-based Reservoir acquired 100% of Werman's producer rights for all of his works. That inclu... Read More...

Back row, L to R: Sony Music Publishing's Nashville CEO, Rusty Gaston, and Relative Music Group co-founder Jesse Matkosky. Front row, L to R: country star Michael Hardy, Relative's Dennis Matkosky, and Sony Mu... Read More...

Photo Credit: Surface Netflix and BMG have renewed their international exclusive music publishing rights agreement.  The two companies forged a similar deal back in 2017, and this deal will continue that par... Read More...

Songwriters are officially calling for greater mechanical-rate transparency from the Copyright Royalty Board. Tennessee- and Toronto-based Music Creators North America (MCNA), “an alliance of independent so... Read More...

Round Hill Music has agreed to a deal to acquire Swedish label Telegram Studios' master recordings. The indie label's catalog includes works from Estelle, System of a Down's Serj Tankia, Throwing Muses, Zigg... Read More...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing live in 2019. Photo Credit: Raph_PH The Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold their entire catalog to Hipgnosis in a deal that was reportedly worth north of $140 million. The 3... Read More...

Photo Credit: Downtown Music Downtown Music layoffs have begun shortly after the sale of its 145,000 song catalog. Here's what we know. A 'number' of its Nashville employees have been let go, including Execu... Read More...

Stockholm, Sweden. Photo Credit: Yoko Correia Nishimiya Sony Music Publishing has officially partnered with the publishing division of music-management firm The Very Good “to provide further support for its c... Read More...

Photo Credit: Adrian Martin / CC by 3.0 LL Cool J's Rock the Bells has raised $8 million in Series A funding to expand its direct-to-consumer business. San Francisco-based Raine Ventures led the funding roun... Read More...