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Sony Music Publishing LLC (formerly Sony/ATV Music Publishing) is an American music publisher.Responsible for publishing the largest quantity of music, with over five million songs owned or administered as of end March 2021, it is part of the Sony Music Group, [1] which is itself owned by Sony Entertainment.
The Beatles' Lennon–McCartney catalogue is ATV Publishing's most valuable asset. Taylor Swift is the youngest songwriter to have signed with Sony/ATV, joining the company at the age of 14. Talay Riley [119] Taylor Swift [10] Tata Young [10] Teddy Geiger [10] The Almost [10] The Beautiful South [41] The Beatles [120] The Chainsmokers [121] The ...
Hickory Records is an American record label founded in 1954 by Acuff-Rose Music, [1] which operated the label up to 1979. Sony Music Publishing (then Sony/ATV) revived the label in 2007. [2] [3] Originally based in Nashville, and functioning as an independent label throughout its history, it has had several distributors.
Sony has agreed to buy out the Michael Jackson estate's half of Sony/ATV Music Publishing for $750 million. Sony will buy out Michael Jackson's half of Sony/ATV Publishing, take sole ownership of ...
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed two music legends to its Neighboring Rights division with deals to represent the recording catalogues of Bob Marley and Leonard Cohen, the company announced today.
In June 2012, a consortium led by Sony/ATV acquired EMI Music Publishing, making Sony/ATV the world's largest music publisher at the time. [55] This acquisition also reunited the common ownership of pre-1986 CBS Songs (as SBK Songs) catalog to Sony/ATV. Rob Stringer became CEO of Sony Music Entertainment on April 1, 2017.
In 2018 Sony revealed in an earnings report that as part of its $2.3 billion acquisition of EMI Music Publishing, it had acquired the Jackson estate’s 25.1% stake in that company for $287.5 million.
Jackson did indeed purchase ATV Music in 1985. Both McCartney and Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, were notified of the sale but did not bid themselves. Ten years later, Jackson merged his catalogue with that of Sony Corporation of America to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Northern Songs was dissolved.