[citation needed] it formed in 1965 by Rotheide and Gerhard Narholz in Munich (Germany), the company owns the copyrights of over 130,000 compositions and musical recordings of all genres.
1965 Rotheide and Gerhard Narholz establish Sonoton Music as a company in Munich, Germany.
In 1971, Norman Candler received the “3 Star Award” from BBC London for “Best Album of the Year”.
[3] Sonoton expands its Easy Listening catalogue with recording artists Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Ted Heath, Acker Bilk, Xavier Cugat, Horst Jankowski and Franck Pourcel.
The unicolored album covers for library music LPs are replaced with individually designed, full-color sleeves.
2006 Sonoton Music offers its entire repertoire on hard drive including an offline search system.
Composers get their shares of licenses either through membership of a Mechanical and/or Performing Rights Societies and/or through Sonoton, depending on the local legal conditions.