Sony Music Publishing/Orchard Publishing
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Sony/ATV Music Publishing is the world’s No. 1 music publishing company with a network of 38 offices across the globe.
Headquartered in New York, the company owns or administers iconic music catalogs including those from Jobete/Motown, Famous Music, Leiber & Stoller and Mijac Music. It became a solely-owned Sony company in 2016.
With its songwriter-first mission, Sony/ATV Music Publishing provides best-in-class services on a global scale to its songwriters and catalogs while also leading the industry with its high-level synchronization operation and production music businesses, Extreme Music and EMI Production Music.
COMPANY HISTORY
Sony/ATV Music Publishing can trace its history back to 1955 when British-based businessman and impresario Lew Grade founded Associated Television (ATV). In 1957 ATV acquired Pye Records, at the time one of the three major record companies in the U.K. alongside EMI and Decca Records.
Out of the ATV acquisition ATV Music Publishing was then created to exploit the catalog of songs written by artists on the Pye Records label and for the themes to Independent Television Corporation and ATV programs. Under Grade, ATV Music Publishing’s acquisitions included in 1968 Northern Songs, which had been set up five years earlier to look after songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The ATV song catalog, including Northern Songs, was eventually acquired in 1985 by Michael Jackson and was then merged in October 1995 with Sony Music Publishing to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing. It became a solely-owned Sony company in 2016. Since 2012 Sony/ATV has administered EMI Music Publishing, making it the world’s leading music publisher based on market share. In November 2018 EMI became 100% wholly owned by Sony.
SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony that is incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America
THE ORCHARD
The Orchard is an American music and entertainment company founded in 1997 by Richard Gottehrer wholly owned by Sony Music and based in New York City.
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