Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Jennifer JacobsenSony Music Entertainment (Formerly Known as Sony Bmg Music Entertainment)Covered position: Legisl. Asst., Office of Rep. Frank Wolf (90-91)43 filingsthrough 2019
Lisette MortonSony Music Entertainment (Formerly Known as Sony Bmg Music Entertainment)30 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Sony Music Entertainment (Formerly Known as Sony Bmg Music Entertainment)
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: sony-music-entertainment-formerly-known-as-sony-bmg-music-entertainment.
reported as expenses
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Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
TRD
27 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
25 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
11 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4789110th CongressPerformance Rights Act7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Sony Music Entertainment (Formerly Known as Sony Bmg Music Entertainment)
