EMI Music 
SBK Entertainment 
Songwriters Hall of Fame 
Earlier this year, Sony/ATV Music Publishing Chairman/CEO Martin Bandier announced that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of March, 2019, when his contract expires. It is a matter of fact and not opinion to say that he is one of the greatest music publishers in history and has built the company into a global juggernaut that has topped Billboard's Publisher's Quarterly chart every quarter except one in the past six years. Variety has obtained a...
Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Martin
Bandier
Chairman / CEO
While he’s leaving Sony/ATV at the end of March 2019, after barely more than 10 years, Bandier, 77, leaves behind a company he piloted into position as the world’s biggest music publisher — it was fourth when he took charge in 2007. In fact, the man with the Midas touch has built every publishing company he’s run — including The Entertainment Company, SBK and EMI — into a powerhouse. With more than 3.5 million songs by the likes of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Drake, his Sony/ATV has topped market share every quarter over six years except one. And it’ll grow even bigger with Bandier’s multibillion-dollar parting gift: a deal that has Sony/ATV acquiring shares of a company he once ran, EMI Music Publishing.
