In landing its fifth consecutive sweep for the No. 1 slot of both the publisher’s rankings of the Hot 100 and Top Radio Airplay for the second quarter, Sony Music Publishing went a step further as it snared the highest score ever recorded since Billboard first began tracking U.S. publisher market share for hit songs back in 2006. For the Hot 100 in the second quarter, Sony scored a 37.32% market share.
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Beyond its five-quarter-in-a-row sweep of both publisher rankings, it also marks the sixth consecutive time it has topped the Hot 100 ranking. Moreover, Sony’s score swamped the Hot 100 competition as its share was twice as large as the 17.67% tally by Warner Chappell Music, the quarter’s No. 2-ranked publisher for that chart.
Helping to boost Sony into the top spot was its ownership slice in the Q2 Hot 100 No. 1 song, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas.” On the Top Radio Airplay list, where Sony also was the top ranked publisher with a 30.26% share, its top performing song was Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall In Love),” which landed at No. 2. Playing in Sony’s favor on Top Radio Airplay is that it serves as the administrator for that chart’s Top Radio Airplay songwriter — with Songs of the Orchard serving as the publisher to Shane Boose, better known as sombr, who placed two songs on the chart, including “Homewrecker” at No. 7. He held the top writer position for both charts in the prior quarter.
