Chairman, Sony Music Group (also CEO, Sony Music Entertainment), Sony Music
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“I think the threat is that the disruption from the next chapter of tech causes something that happens that doesn't to my mind benefit the art. I mean my view of where my background where I come from was Art first business and Tech involved in that second.”
“I think it should have been going up a dollar a year for the last five years. I think it should probably be much more akin to the Netflix pricing because Netflix pricing is not based on the entire catalog of content for television and film and Spotify has every piece of music you could ever want.”
“They are not promotional platforms. They are a hugely profitable corporation and we allowed them to be MTV and we shouldn't have done that. And now we're backpedaling from that. But but the truth is, we we should get paid more by several of our several of our DSP partners.”
“I think it should have been going up a dollar a year for the last five years. I think it should probably be much more akin to the Netflix pricing because Netflix pricing is not based on the entire catalog of content for television and film. And Spotify has every piece of music you could ever want, right? And from that...”
“I would penalize players much more harshly for play acting and rolling around and diving and all that kind of stuff. It's so prevalent. I mean let's own the championship but still there Premier League it's like I think you know if players do that I think there's a reason to go a bar on that and get them off the pitch i...”
“I think that what we've crafted is we found a manager and a setup with you know with Nathan and Mick and and then Paul Hart and now Chris Cohen and Alan but we found a setup that that suits Who We Are you know and and we get the best out of people and uh I think that's credit to to to Nathan and Gary and David Wilkinso...”
Rob Stringer, Chairman, Sony Music Group discusses the state of the music industry, his company and its artists with Bloomberg's ...
Rob Stringer, Chairman, Sony Music Group discusses the state of the music industry, his company and its artists with Bloomberg's ...
Luton Town director and fan of the club for over 40 years talks about his love of the team as well as his favourite players he has seen Rob, who is currently CEO of Sony Music Group and rated as the 2nd most influential man in the industry in 2022 on the 'Billboard Power 100 Rankings'. He talks how his skills in this industry have helped him work with the Luton board to improve the club in recent years He is a very open and humble guest who also speaks about how he loved sitting in varying parts of the Kenilworth Road ground and how he may have been one of the reasons the dugouts swapped sid…
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LCD Soundsystem has signed a deal with Columbia Records, according to label chairman Rob Stringer who made mention of the ...
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