Sony's Crushing It While Influence Media Locks Down a Fat $600M Anthem Deal

Sony just posted a $3.15 billion quarter — numbers that show how much power the majors still hold over the industry. That's the kind of revenue that speaks for itself: streaming, publishing, physical, sync deals. All of it feeding the machine.

Meanwhile, Influence Media just inked a $600 million deal around Anthem. That's the type of independent-era move that gets attention — serious money flowing to IP and catalog assets outside the traditional major label setup.

These headlines tell you where the music business is headed right now. The majors are still raking, but there's real money being bet on alternative structures and independent players too. It's not a flip of the script — it's more like the script is getting more complicated. Both things can be true at once.

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