| Name | | Sony/ATV Music Publishing Worldwide | |
| Image | | SonyATV_logo.jpg | |
| General info : | | Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing Worldwide and Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Worldwide) are brand/label names of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, the largest music publishing company in the world.
The company was incorporated in 1995 and is based in New York, New York, USA.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC operates as a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
The company was originally founded as Associated Television (ATV) in 1955 by Lew Grade. In 1985, ATV Music Publishing was sold to Michael Jackson for $47.5 million. Paul McCartney, who had told Jackson about the importance of owning publishing, admitted he felt somewhat undercut by the acquisition because ATV Music Publishing owned the publishing rights to most of The Beatles' songs, although he did not enter bidding when it came up for sale in 1984.
In December 1995, Michael Jackson agreed to merge ATV Music Publishing with Sony Music Publishing, a division of Sony Corporation, to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
In 2012 an investor consortium led by Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquired EMI Music Publishing for approximately $2.2 billion.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing now operate as one company, with the former entity administering the catalog of the latter under a complex business structure.
It has several local subsidiaries:
Sony / ATV Music Publishing (SA)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Benelux)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Australia
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada
Sony/ATV Music Publishing France
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia
etc.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2015) | |
| Address | | 550 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022, USA | |
| Websites | | www.sonyatv.com (www.sonyatv.com) | |