Sony / ATV Music Publishing

Sony/ATV Music Publishing was a music publishing company, since 2016 wholly owned by Sony Entertainment Inc., a holding company behind entertainment units of Sony Corporation of America, itself a regional North American company of Sony Corporation.

In December 1995, Michael Jackson and Sony Corporation of America. After Jackson's death in 2009, his shares were ed to the Michael Jackson Family Trust.

On February 10, 2021, Sony/ATV was rebranded back as Sony Music Publishing, finally ending the Sony/ATV name after nearly 25 years in the business.

1955 - Lew Grade founds Associated Television (ATV).
1957 - ATV acquires Pye Records as a wholly owned subsidiary.
1957 - ATV Music Publishing is created to exploit the songs owned by ATV.
1968 - ATV Music and Lew Grade acquire the rights to the Lennon–McCartney song catalogue, Northern Songs.
1985 - ATV Music Publishing and Pye Records are put up for sale. They are bought Robert Holmes à Court.
1985 - ATV Music Publishing and its assets, Pye Records and Northern Songs, are again put up for sale. Singer Michael Jackson acquires them for $47.5 million.
1995 - Jackson merges ATV Music Publishing with Sony Music Publishing. He earns $90 million in the venture.
May 2001 - Jackson declares that The Beatles' songs "will never be for sale".
November 2001 - Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquires Tony Martin's Baby Mae Music catalogue of 600 songs.
July 2002 - Sony/ATV Music Publishing buys country music publisher Acuff-Rose for $157 million. The venture includes publishing rights to 55,000 songs.
2007 - Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquires Famous Music, a music publishing business with song catalogue of more than 125,000 songs.
2021 - Sony/ATV rebrands as Sony Music Publishing

Name variations:
- Sony / ATV Music Publishing
- Sony \ ATV Music Publishing
- Sony/ATV Music Publishing
- Sony / ATV Music Pub.
- Sony/ATV Music Pub.
- Sony Atv Music Publishing
- Sony ATV music publishing
- Sony ATV Music Publishing
- ATV/Sony Music Publishing

Related to:
- Sony/ATV Music