Sony buys EMI Music Publishing for US$1.9bn

Deal will create single giant catalogue of more than four million songs

Sony has announced a US$1.9bn (1.4bn) deal to acquire EMI Music Publishing, one of the world's largest music publishing companies with rights to songs by the likes of Queen and Pharrell Williams.

The deal adds a catalogue of more than two million songs - including some of the greatest hits from the first half of the 20th century - to Sony's already huge holdings.