{"id":2128049,"date":"2026-09-04T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2128049"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:21:54","slug":"publishers-quarterly-q2-2026-sony-earns-highest-market-share-ever-recorded-with-ella-langleys-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2128049","title":{"rendered":"Publishers Quarterly Q2 2026: \u00a0Sony Earns Highest Market Share Ever Recorded\u00a0With Ella Langley\u2019s Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn landing its fifth consecutive sweep for the No. 1 slot of both the publisher\u2019s rankings of the Hot 100 and Top Radio Airplay for the second quarter, Sony Music Publishing went a step further as it snared\u202fthe highest score ever recorded\u202fsince Billboard<\/em> first began tracking U.S. publisher market share for hit songs back in 2006. For the Hot 100 in the second quarter, Sony scored\u202fa 37.32% market share.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tSony Dominates 2025 Publisher Rankings With Hits by Leon Thomas, Kendrick Lamar & Alex\u00a0Warren\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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    \n\tBeyond its five-quarter-in-a-row sweep of both publisher rankings, it also marks the sixth consecutive time it has topped\u202fthe Hot 100 ranking. Moreover, Sony\u2019s score swamped\u202fthe Hot 100 competition as its share was twice as large as the 17.67% tally by Warner Chappell Music, the quarter\u2019s No. 2-ranked\u202fpublisher for that chart.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tHelping to boost Sony into the top spot was its ownership slice in the Q2 Hot 100 No. 1 song, Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas.\u201d On the Top Radio Airplay list, where Sony also was the top ranked\u202fpublisher with a 30.26% share, its top performing song was Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cSo Easy (To Fall In Love),\u201d which landed at No. 2. Playing in Sony\u2019s favor on Top Radio Airplay is that it serves as the administrator for that chart\u2019s Top Radio Airplay songwriter \u2014\u00a0 with Songs of the Orchard serving as the publisher to Shane Boose, better known as sombr, who placed\u202ftwo songs on the chart, including \u201cHomewrecker\u201d at No. 7. He held the top writer position for both charts in the prior quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

    \n\tSony placed 63 songs on the Hot 100 chart in the second quarter compared to 65 songs in Q1. However, the songs in Q2 helped the publishing company beat its 29.08% performance in the first quarter. On Top Radio Airplay, Sony\u2019s song count fell from 71 songs in Q1 to 65 in Q2. Still, the company improved its chart share, coming in at 30.26% from 29.11%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\tComing in second on both the Top Radio Airplay and Hot 100 charts, Warner Chappell Music gave up some ground from the prior quarter as it tallied 22.82% on the former chart in the second quarter versus the 23.22% it had in the first quarter. On the Hot 100 chart, its share fell nearly three percentage points to 17.67% from its first-quarter showing of 20.49%. While it was able to secure 59 song placements on the Top Radio Airplay chart in the second quarter \u2014 one more than its showing for the first quarter \u2014 its song count fell to 39 tunes on the Hot 100 versus the 50 placements it had previously. Its top song on both charts in the second quarter was Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might, which was the No. 1 song on the Top Radio Airplay list and the No. 4 song on the Hot 100.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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      \n\tUniversal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) ranked as the No. 3 publisher on both charts in the second quarter, and\u00a0similarly suffered\u202fmarket share drainage. On the Top Radio Airplay chart, it finished\u202fwith a 12.45% share \u2014 slightly more than two percentage points lower than its first-quarter tally of 14.68%, with its song count likewise falling to 44 songs from the prior quarter\u2019s 58 tunes. On the Hot 100, its share dropped\u202fone percentage point to 16.55% in the second quarter, down from the 17.55% it had in Q1, while its song count also fell to 43 from the 47 tunes it garnered\u202fon that chart in the first quarter. UMPG\u2019s top song on both charts was the same top tune it had on both charts in the prior quarter: Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cMan I Need,\u201d which was No. 5 on the Top Radio Airplay chart and No. 3 on the Hot 100.\u00a0<\/p>\n

      \n\tLikewise, Kobalt and BMG, respectively, held steady in the No. 4 and No. 5 spots on both charts, both ceding market share totals from the prior quarter. In the case of Kobalt, its Hot 100 share fell to 9.30% in the second quarter \u2014 down from the prior quarter\u2019s 11.15% \u2014 as its song count also decreased\u202fto 32 tunes, including \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d from 36 placements in the prior quarter. On the Top Radio Airplay chart, its market share decline wasn\u2019t as sharp, dropping to\u202f a 9.38% share from the prior quarter\u2019s 9.86%. Kobalt gained\u202ftwo placements in the second quarter, finishing with a slice of 34 songs on the Top Radio Airplay chart, versus 32 in the prior quarter.\u202f Its top song on the Top Radio Airplay song list was Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cSo Easy (To Fall In Love).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

      \n\tAs for BMG, its 3.73% share on the Hot 100 was down from the prior quarter\u2019s 5.24%, but its song count held steady at four placements on the chart, with its top song being Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might.\u201d The publisher fared better in total market share on Top Radio Airplay, coming in with a 5.61% showing, falling\u202ffrom the prior quarter\u2019s 6.19% share. It landed 12 song placements in both quarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

      \n\tConcord, the No. 6 ranked\u202fpublisher on the Top Radio Airplay chart for the third consecutive quarter, saw its market share fall slightly to 2.75% from the prior quarter, when it held the same place in the ranking on a 2.88% market share. Yet the company\u2019s song count increased\u202fto nine tunes from seven songs in the prior quarter. On the Hot 100, Concord ranked at No. 8 in Q2, falling from 3.19% with 10 placements in Q1, to 1.88% with seven placements in the second quarter; like other publishers in Q2, it was impacted by Sony\u2019s strong showing on the chart. Its top song on both charts in the second quarter was \u201cMan I Need.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

      \n\tPulse landed at No. 6 on the Hot 100, defying the market share-losing trend, coming in with a 2.30% share in the second quarter, up from its 1.22% tally in the first quarter when it was the No. 8-ranked\u202fpublisher on the chart. Its top song on that chart was Kehlani\u2019s \u201cFolded,\u201d which landed at No. 11. That song was also Pulse\u2019s top song on the Top Radio Airplay publisher rankings, where the song fared\u202feven better as the No. 3 tune. Pulse came in at No. 9 on Top Radio Airplay with a 1.48% share, improving from the first quarter when the company did not crack the Top 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

      \n\tMaking its fifth consecutive appearance on the Top Radio Airplay publisher rankings, Big Machine Music finished\u202fas the No. 10 ranked publisher with a 1.34% share, up from the prior quarter\u2019s 1.19% share when it was the No. 8 ranked\u202fpublisher. However, Big Machine didn\u2019t make the Hot 100 rankings in the second quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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        \n\tAlso appearing on both charts for the second quarter are Me Gusta Music and Downtown. Me Gusta Music was ranked\u202fNo. 7 on both charts, with a 2.42% share on the Top Radio Airplay chart and a 2.01% tally on the Hot 100 chart, after not showing up in the rankings on either chart in the prior quarter In the second quarter,\u202f it placed\u202ffive songs on the Top Radio Airplay chart, including \u202fJosh Ross\u2019 \u201cHate How You Look,\u201d the No. 18 song; while on the Hot 100 chart, it snared\u202fa stake in four tunes, with its top song being Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore,\u201d which finished at No. 14.<\/p>\n

        \n\tDowntown made its first appearance in the Top Radio Airplay rankings since Q4 2022, coming in at the No. 8 spot in the second quarter thanks to a 1.61% share. The publisher had been absent from the Hot 100 rankings since Q3 2025, but its 1.09% share gave it the No. 10 slot in the second quarter. Its top tune on both charts was BTS\u2019 \u201cSwim,\u201d which was the No. 15 song on the Hot 100 and the No. 30 song on the Top Radio Airplay chart.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

        \n\tFinishing out the Hot 100, Walt Disney Music ranked\u202fNo. 9 with a 1.21% share, making its first appearance on the chart since Q2 2022. Its top song was Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You,\u201d the No. 30 song on that chart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

        For the Top 10 Publishers Top Radio Airplay chart, percentage calculations were based\u202fupon the overall top 100 detected\u202fsongs from\u202f2,367\u202f U.S. radio stations electronically monitored\u202fby Mediabase 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the period of April 1 to July 31, 2026. For Top 10 Publishers Hot 100 Songs, percentage calculations were based\u202fupon the top 100 songs ranked\u202fby Billboard Hot 100 points calculated\u202ffrom digital sales, streaming and Mediabase-tracked\u202fradio airplay detections during the period of March 27 to June 25 and reflecting the issue dates of April 11, 2026 through July. 4, 2026. Publisher information for musical works on both charts has been identified\u202fby the Harry Fox Agency. A \u201cpublisher\u201d is defined\u202fas an administrator, copyright owner and\/or controlling party.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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        [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ella-Langley-Getty-Images-Billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard In landing its fifth consecutive sweep for the No. 1 slot of both the publisher\u2019s rankings of the Hot 100 and Top Radio Airplay for the second quarter, Sony Music Publishing went a step further as it snared\u202fthe highest score ever recorded\u202fsince Billboard first began tracking U.S. publisher market […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2128049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}