{"id":223968,"date":"2025-02-17T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=data&#038;p=223968"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:37:50","slug":"a-sketch-annual-revenues-and-operating-profit-2021-2024","status":"publish","type":"data","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/data\/a-sketch-annual-revenues-and-operating-profit-2021-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Sketch: Annual revenues and operating profit (2021-2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A-Sketch is a music rights and artist management company based in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>It hit music biz headlines in February 2025 after Universal Music Group acquired a majority stake in the firm from Japan&#8217;s Amuse Inc.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, UMG now owns <strong>66%<\/strong> of A-Sketch, with the remaining <strong>34%<\/strong> owned by KDDI Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to filings from Amuse Inc, we have a picture of A-Sketch&#8217;s annual revenues and profits in its FY to end of March, which are represented below.<\/p>\n<p>Please note: Yen-USD conversions have been made at the average annual rate as per the IRS in the United States, using the most applicable calendar-year rate (for example: for year ending March 2022, we have used the IRS&#8217; 2021 rate etc.).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure class=\"mbw-articlepic mbw-articlepic--center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results.png\" data-lightbox=\"image-set\" data-title=\"\"><img  class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-80x44.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-80x44.png 80w, https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-160x89.png 160w, https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-320x178.png 320w, https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-418x232.png 418w, https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-648x360.png 648w, https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-836x464.png 836w, https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results-1296x720.png 1296w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"><i class=\"fas fa-search-plus magnifying-glass-icon\"><\/i><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/files\/2025\/02\/A-Sketch-annual-results.png\" download class=\"download-icon\" title=\"Download Image\"><i class=\"fas fa-download\"><\/i><\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A-Sketch is a music rights and artist management company based in Japan. It hit music biz headlines in February 2025 after Universal Music Group acquired a majority stake in the firm from Japan&#8217;s Amuse Inc. As a result, UMG now owns 66% of A-Sketch, with the remaining 34% owned by KDDI Corporation. Thanks to filings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/data\/a-sketch-annual-revenues-and-operating-profit-2021-2024\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":223970,"template":"","class_list":["post-223968","data","type-data","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/data\/223968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/data"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/data"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/data\/223968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}