{"id":2268138,"date":"2026-02-05T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268138"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:55:20","slug":"sony-music-posts-strong-q3-results-as-streaming-physical-sales-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sony-music-posts-strong-q3-results-as-streaming-physical-sales-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Music Posts Strong Q3 Results as Streaming, Physical Sales Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSony Music Group reported a double-digit increase in quarterly sales on Thursday driven by the streaming success of new music from Spanish-speaking artists Rosal\u00eda<\/a> and Peso Pluma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRosal\u00eda\u2019s chart-topping new album Lux<\/em> and a re-release of Pink Floyd\u2019<\/strong>s classic Wish You Were Here<\/em> helped push total revenue for the Japanese company\u2019s fiscal third quarter up 60 billion yen to 542.4 billion yen ($3.47 billion), with operating income up 9% to 106.4 billion yen ($681.2 million).<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith new music from Harry Styles,<\/a> A$AP Rocky<\/a> and Luke Combs<\/a> expected to be released in the next six months, Sony Music Group said it believes it can now achieve 70 billion yen ($448 million) in total revenue growth, a 4% upward revision from last quarter\u2019s guidance, and operating income growth of 60 billion yen ($384 million), a 16% upward revision.<\/p>\n

\n\tStreaming revenue growth remains a key driver for Sony Music, with Peso Pluma and Tito Double P\u2019s collaborative album Dinast\u00eda<\/em><\/a> ranking among the most streamed of the quarter. On a U.S. dollar basis, streaming revenue in the quarter ending Dec. 31 rose 5% for recorded music and 13% for music publishing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall recorded music revenue rose 13% to 355 billion yen ($2.27 billion), helped by a 30% uptick in recorded other revenue driving that segment, which includes live events and merchandise sales, to 90 billion yen ($576 million). Revenue from vinyl records and other physical music sales rose 17% to 35 billion yen ($224 million). \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSony Music\u2019s top selling album for the quarter was Rosalia\u2019s highly anticipated fourth studio album Lux, <\/em>which debuted with five No. 1 songs<\/a> across Billboard<\/em> charts. Pink Floyd\u2019s 50th<\/sup> edition release of Wish You Were Here<\/em>, which was the No. 1 album the week of Christmas<\/a> in the United Kingdom, came in second, and Tylor, The Creator\u2019s 2024 album CHROMAKOPIA <\/em>came in third.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPublishing revenue rose 14% to 108 billion yen ($691 million), and revenue from visual media and platforms rose 14% to 76 billion yen ($487 million) on the continued success of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Movie: Infinity Castle<\/em>. Adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization, a measure of how much cash the core businesses make, rose 10% to 133 billion yen ($851 million).<\/p>\n

\n\tSony said the weaker U.S. dollar resulted in a 5.1 billion yen ($32.7 million) gain in the quarter, as the company benefited from converting U.S. dollar sales into Japanese yen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony Music Group reported a double-digit increase in quarterly sales on Thursday driven by the streaming success of new music from Spanish-speaking artists Rosal\u00eda and Peso Pluma. Rosal\u00eda\u2019s chart-topping new album Lux and a re-release of Pink Floyd\u2019s classic Wish You Were Here helped push total revenue for the Japanese company\u2019s fiscal third quarter up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[26192,348401,47288,439223],"class_list":["post-2268138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-earnings","tag-results","tag-sony-music","tag-sony-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sony-Music-Posts-Strong-Q3-Results-as-Streaming-Physical-Sales.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268140,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268138\/revisions\/2268140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}