Thanks to strong general profits development throughout streaming, physical, and live/licensing, Sony Music created almost$3.2 billion (up 17.7%and 8.9%in consistent currency year over year )throughout Q3 2026.
The overarching Sony Group Corp. clarified these and other financial Q2 efficiency figures, pointing very first to across-the-board music profits of ¥ 592.30 billion($3.75 billion at today currency exchange rate )for the 3 months ended September 30th.
That figure represents an 11.3% year-over-year (YoY )boost and a 2.9%YoY uptick in consistent currency (CC), however due to the addition of the nearby “visual media and platform” classification, it does not always paint a total photo of core music outcomes.
Less visual media and platform (which incorporates mobile video gaming and morethen, Sony Music income was available in at $3.17 billion ( ¥ 501.80 billion) throughout Q3 2026, up closer to 18% and 8.9% in CC YoY, according to the report.
As typical, taped music began the lion’s share of the amount at $2.42 billion/ ¥ 383.20 billion (up 19.5% and 10.6% in CC YoY); streaming represented $1.53 billion/ ¥ 242.20 billion (up 16.1% and 7.4% in CC YoY) therein.
Physical formats consisting of vinyl and CDs, for their part, produced $201.05 million/ ¥ 31.80 billion (up 16.5% and 7.8% in CC YoY) on the quarter, with a complex “other” sub-category (real estate merch, live, and licensing income) contributing another $645.45 million/ ¥ 102.10 billion (up 31% and 21.1% in CC YoY).
Completing the taped music side, long-term downloads generated $44.88 million/ ¥ 7.10 billion, down about 5% in CC YoY.
By earnings, the quarter’s top-performing releases were Ateez’s Golden Hour: Part 5; Michael Jackson’s Thriller; Ella Langley’s Dandelion; Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS; SZA’s SOS; and Shakira’s Dairespectively.
Moving to publishing, some will remember that DMN previously this year recognized a product reduction in the size of Sony Music Publishing’s owned and administered brochure.
While the contraction’s cause wasn’t instantly clear, Sony Group today chalked it approximately a reporting mistake.
“The variety of tunes in the music publishing brochure owned and administered since March 31, 2026 was formerly mistakenly revealed as 5.45, and has actually been modified as displayed in the above chart,” the pertinent line checks out.
In any occasion, Q3 publishing income struck $749.70 million/ ¥ 118.60 billion (up 12.1% and 3.7% in CC), consisting of $470.38 million/ ¥ 74.4 billion from streaming (up 14.3% and 5.7% in CC YoY).
Sony Group’s music operating earnings reached $776.24 million/ ¥ 122.76 billion (up 6.4% YoY) throughout the quarter. The figure shows contributions from visual media and platform, which is stated to have actually made up “somewhat more than 10%” of the revenue at hand.
Expecting the rest of the — indicating the rest of 2026 and after that 2027’s very first quarter– the corporation upped its music-segment profits anticipated by about 5% to $14.45 billion/ ¥ 2.30 trillion, mentioning continuous increases throughout live/merch and streaming.
A closing note on the exchange-rate front: Sony Music gathers earnings in all way of currencies and reports in yen; higher-ups when again acknowledged a favorable effect here.
The above figures show the yen-dollar currency exchange rate at the time of composing. Computing based on Sony’s supplied typical quarterly rate of ¥ 159.30 per dollar, or simply above the present rate, is easy enough.
Sony Music Calendar Q3 2026 Revenue Based on the Period’s Provided Average Exchange Rate
Total (Less Visual Media and Platform): $3,150,031,387
Taped Music: $2,405,524,168
Tape-recorded Music Streaming: $1,520,401,758
Music Publishing: $744,507,219
Music Publishing Streaming: $467,043,314
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