This Week In Music: Sony Music Steps Up For Its Older Artists, Cancels Unrecouped Debts

Poppy – the answer to the question: “What would Nine Inch Nails sound like if they were fronted by Kylie?” – is choosing to release her new EP via the label Sumerian Records and World Wrestling Entertainment. Yet, fans of the squared circle will be aware that rock and wrestling have enjoyed close ties for decades.

K.J. Yossman Sony Music Australia staff have spoken out about the company’s “nightmarish and toxic” culture following CEO Denis Handlin’s abrupt exit last week, with some even exploring legal action.Until last week, Handlin was Sony Music’s longest-serving employee, having been with the label for over 50 years.

2PM have released their new album, ‘Must’, which dropped alongside a music video for the title track ‘Make It’.In the dramatic visual, a meteor comes crashing onto Earth, destroying everything.

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EXCLUSIVE: We have just learned about this manga feature adaptation which is in early works at Columba Pictures, and that’s the Akihito Tsukushi Made in Abyss which Kevin McMullin is adapting. Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment is producing, along with Bullet Train and Heroes actor Masi Oka.

Chris Willman Music WriterIn a nearly three-hour presentation Wednesday morning, Pershing Square Capital founder Bill Ackman made his love for the music business — and the reasons for setting his sights on Universal Music Group — clear, saying, “I can’t think of an asset I’m more confident in being consumed over time.

Sony Music Publishing has signed Janelle Monáe and her Wondaland Arts Society company to a worldwide administration agreement.“As an artist who is constantly reinventing myself, I feel like I’m just getting started”, says Monáe.

Sony Music Publishing has signed Janelle Monáe and her Wondaland Arts Society company to a worldwide administration agreement.“As an artist who is constantly reinventing myself, I feel like I’m just getting started”, says Monáe.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGrammy-nominated singer, songwriter and actor Janelle Monáe has signed an exclusive, worldwide administration agreement with Sony Music Publishing, the company announced on Tuesday.

Playground Games’ Mike Brown, creative director of Forza Horizon 5, joined the Xbox Games Showcase Extended to talk about Forza Horizon 5’s Mexico.“We knew right from the start that we wanted it to be the largest horizon yet. It’s not far down the path from that that you realise you don’t want to go big if it’s going to be more of the same.”Brown starts the discussion by talking about how Mexico is the whole world in one country.

Podcast consolidation continues.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSony Music Entertainment has acquired Somethin’ Else, which touts itself as the U.K.’s largest independent podcast and audio producer, and one of the BBC’s biggest independent producers of programs.Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.With the deal, Sony Music is creating a newly expanded global podcast division, headed by Somethin’ Else’s two top execs: Steve Ackerman (above left), chief content officer and vice chairman; and Jez Nelson (above right),

Certain dates stick out in the calendar for those who’ve lost loved ones and birthdays are among the toughest to get through. In celebration of her life, loving son Ronan Keating shared a photo of his mum on what would have been her 75th birthday.

Certain dates stick out in the calendar for those who’ve lost loved ones and birthdays are among the toughest to get through. In celebration of her life, loving son Ronan Keating shared a photo of his mum on what would have been her 75th birthday.

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Ron Sweeney called on major labels to “zero out their unrecouped royalty balances and let their royalties flow to them so they can support themselves”.The MMF have been calling for a more progressive approach to tacking outdated contractual terms for some time and welcome the “Artists Forward” initiative from @sonymusic.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSony Music Entertainment has announced “an expansion of the comprehensive support we provide to thousands of our artists around the world” via a new initiative called Artists Forward, “prioritizing transparency with creators in all aspects of their development,” the company stated in a letter to artists.The most striking element of the campaign is the “Legacy Unrecouped Balance Program,” whereby the company “will no longer apply existing unrecouped balances to