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Why Music Will Never Be A Top Priority At Sony Corp [CHART]

Record labels and other music companies are, by necessity, businesses.  But in an age when each of the three major label groups is part of a larger conglomerate (WMG/Access Industries,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/10/why-music-will-never-be-a-top-priority-at-sony-corp-char

Sony-Music-logo-wordmarkRecord labels and other music companies are, by necessity, businesses.  But in an age when each of the three major label groups is part of a larger conglomerate (WMG/Access Industries, UMG/Vivendi and Sony/Sony Corp.), how much clout does a music division have within its respective corporation?

As this charts shows, in the case of Sony,

music is far down the revenue chain.

Sony Corp revenue


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