Roblox partners with Sony Music to fill the metaverse with musicians

Roblox has signed a partnership with Sony Music Entertainment to convey extra musicians into the metaverse. 

The settlement will see Roblox and Sony Music work collectively to “develop modern music experiences” for the Roblox neighborhood with a view to serving to Sony Music artists to succeed in new audiences and faucet into further income steams. 

Roblox is a web based platform that lets customers construct their very own video games and play experiences created by others, and it has change into extremely common. As of Could 2021, the platform had round 43 million daily active users. It has additionally attracted a number of sizeable investments, and lately began working with high-profile firms and artists like Gucci, Zara Larsson, and Lil Nas X (the latter of whom are each Sony Music shoppers) to host digital launch events, digital live shows, and model experiences. 

For context, over 36 million individuals watched Lil Nas X once they carried out the primary ever reside digital live performance on Roblox in November 2020, and now each Sony and Roblox need to organize extra of these showpiece occasions.

“Sony Music has been a unbelievable accomplice and I’m happy to deepen and lengthen our relationship. They honestly perceive the huge alternative that the metaverse presents for his or her artists and we’re dedicated to serving to them unlock new inventive and industrial alternatives on Roblox,” mentioned Jon Vlassopulos, VP and world head of music at Roblox. “We’re simply scratching the floor of what Roblox can ship to the music business and to music followers world wide.”

The information comes shortly after Roblox was sued by the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) for allegedly utilizing songs from a lot of artists with out permission. As reported at the beginning of June, the NMPA claims that artists like Ariana Grande, Think about Dragons, Ed Sheeran, and the Rolling Stones have had their work illegally used in video games hosted on the platform and is in search of a minimal of $200 million in damages.