How Sony and Universal would have stacked up in the 12 months to end of March this year
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Sony forecasts slowdown in industry’s global recorded music growth in 2018
Kevin Kelleher presented numbers to investors in Japan this week
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Rob Stringer talks Spotify, YouTube, The Orchard and Sony’s ‘aggressive investment’ in data tools
Address in Japan covers a range of areas essential to Sony’s business
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Sony Music Entertainment Japan pays $185m to buy 39% in Snoopy cartoon company Peanuts
Entertainment firm has previously represented Peanuts rights on licensing deal
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RCA Records promotes Keith Naftaly to President, A&R
Exec has most recently worked on albums by P!nk, Kesha and G-Eazy
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BMG signs Dido ahead of fifth album release
British artist’s previous long-standing record deal was with Sony Music
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Sony has cashed in 50% of its Spotify shares, generating around $750m
Company’s remaining 50% haul is worth over $800m at current stock price
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Streaming Pushes Sony Music’s Revenue Over $4 Billion
Thanks to streaming, Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer had a great first year. Sony Corporation has published its earnings report for the 2017-2018 fiscal year ending March 31st, 2018. The company’s music division brought in ¥447 billion ($4…
Can Sony break another major new British artist out of Europe?
After going platinum in France in Italy, will Tom Walker follow in the footsteps of George Ezra and Rag N Bone Man?
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In Rob Stringer’s first year in charge, Sony Music revenues jumped 12% to top $4bn
Overall revenues surpassed $1bn in Q1 this year, with streaming up 40%
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