Sony Extends Royalty Program for Legacy Acts to Songwriters

Sony Music announced the extension of its Artists Forward program to songwriters on Tuesday (July 20), expanding the policy it announced last month to pay through existing unrecouped balances for acts that signed to the company before 2000 and have not received an advance since.  
According to an internal letter to Sony Music Publishing songwriters obtained by Billboard, the new Songwriters Forward program will apply retroactively to Jan. 1, 2021, just like the artists’