Sony Music Publishing returned to No. 1 on the Hot 100 Songs publisher chart for the third quarter and maintained the top spot among top Radio Airplay publishers for the 14th consecutive quarter.
The publisher, which had finished a close second behind Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) in the second quarter, scored its double wins with a share of 67 tracks on the Hot 100 Songs and 63 songs on Top Radio Airplay, including Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — the top tune on both charts this quarter, and one that benefited the quarter's top four publishers, who all have shares of the piece. SMP is also credited as the publishing home of Top Radio Airplay of the Quarter writer Tommy Richman, who wrote and performed the hit “Million Dollar Baby.”
The top Hot 100 Songs writer for the quarter was Zach Bryan, who scored four songs on the chart this quarter, including “Pink Skies” and “28.” It is represented by Warner Chappell Music, which ranked second for the second quarter in a row on the Top Radio Airplay chart and climbed from No. 3 in No. 2 on the Hot 100 Songs chart. Its shares of 64 pieces in the first chart and 59 in the second translate to market shares of 23.34% and 25.32%, respectively.
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After a big second quarter atop the Hot 100 Songs, UMPG reached No. 3 on both charts with shares of 48 Top Radio Airplay songs and 51 on the Hot 100 Songs list — good for market shares of 20.23% and 22.41% respectively.
While the big three publishers are jockeying for these top slots, Kobalt is firmly holding the No. 4 in both rankings for years. Like the big three, he owns a track of “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” In the third quarter, Kobalt's share of Top Radio Airplay songs increased to 48 from 43 in the second quarter, and its share of Hot 100 Songs increased in the same period from 32 to 36. This equates to an 11.43% market share in Radio Airplay and 10.83% on Hot 100 Songs.
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Hipgnosis maintained its fifth position in the ranking from quarter to quarter. His top track on both charts was Sabrina Carpenter's “Espresso”, which was No. 5 on Top Radio Airplay and the No. 4 on the Hot 100 Songs.
Position Music, relatively new entrant Bulletin board's Publishers Quarterly, stayed for another quarter, finishing ninth on Top Radio Airplay and seventh on the Hot 100 Songs thanks to a share of Benson Boone's “Beautiful Things.”
With the arrival of Position comes the departure of an extreme: Tracy Chapman's publishing company, Purple Rabbit Music. It finished in the top 10 on both charts for a full year, buoyed by the success of Luke Combs' cover of its Hot 100 No. 1 hit. 6 of 1988, “Fast Car”.
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