Bob Dylan sells his entire recording catalogue to Sony

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Bob Dylan has sold his entire recording catalogue to Sony Music Entertainment. Sony also reportedly owns the rights to Dylan’s “multiple future new releases.” The “Like A Rolling Stone” singer first signed Sony’s Columbia Records in 1961. “Columbia Records has had a special relationship with Bob Dylan from the beginning of his career and we are tremendously proud and excited to be continuing to grow and evolve our ongoing 60-year partnership,” Rob Stringer, Sony Music Group’s chairman, said in a statement. “The essential impact he and his recordings continue to have on popular culture is second to none and we’re thrilled he will now be a permanent member of the Sony Music family.” File: Bob Dylan performs onstage during the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009 “Columbia Records and Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records.