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Universal Music Group

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift pulls in more than $2bn from Eras concert tour

    Pop star’s record-breaking run sold 10mn tickets across 149 shows

    Taylor Swift
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Kendrick Lamar, hip hop star whose beef with Drake has gone legal

    Canadian rival’s filing claims record label paid radio stations and streamers to boost popularity of US rapper’s ‘Not Like Us’

    Kendrick Lamar performs during the 2023 Governors Ball Music Festival at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Music industry
    Universal Music caught in rap feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar

    Legal actions put record label at the centre of industry ‘civil war’

    Kendrick Lamar and Drake
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Business InsightAnna Nicolaou
    The music industry is suffering from a streaming hangover

    After years of roaring growth, expectations are being re-priced and hopes pinned on superfans

    Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Universal Music shares slump 20% after streaming revenue growth slows

    Rival Warner Music also falls amid fear that years of rapid growth are over

    Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    A billion dollars is probably the wrong price for Queen’s songbook

    I want to break free cash flow positive

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Universal Music ends boycott of TikTok with new licensing deal

    Agreement will mean ‘improved remuneration’ for songwriters and artists, says world’s largest record group

    Taylor Swift performing in Singapore in March
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    What’s a new Taylor Swift album worth?

    To her record label, not that much. For our SEO, quite a lot

  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift’s new album sells 1.6mn copies in US in single day

    Large proportion of sales come from traditional vinyl and CD formats

    ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift’s return to TikTok puts her at odds with Universal

    World’s largest record label had muted her songs on the social media site over a royalties dispute

    Taylor Swift
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    Universal Music impasse with TikTok threatens to take more tracks off platform

    Talks stumble over money, copyright and use of artificial intelligence

    Beyoncé performing live during her Renaissance World Tour
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Business InsightAnna Nicolaou
    What explains KKR’s quick exit from the music business?

    Private equity group decides to not stick around as an owner of song catalogues

    Canadian singer Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, on stage in Paris
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    ‘It’s a hangover’: Taylor Swift makes history as music business creaks

    Industry’s streaming growth story has been followed by lay-offs, AI anxiety and a fight with TikTok

    Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Apple Inc
    Independent record labels push back on Apple’s pay plans

    Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more money

    Adele performs at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    Universal Music set to pull songs from TikTok after negotiations break down

    Music group accuses social media platform of ‘bullying’ and vows to let contract expire on January 31

    Taylor Swift performing on stage
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Personal Finance
    The music industry’s fightback is picking up rhythm

    Universal Music creates a new royalties model for streaming

    Nicki Minaj performs onstage in Newark, New Jersey
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    News in-depthVivendi SA
    Vincent Bolloré changes tack with Vivendi break-up plan

    Growing valuation discount since Universal Music spin-out has been source of frustration for French billionaire

    Vincent Bollore
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift’s replica ‘1989’ surpasses sales of original album

    Debut of re-recorded work is biggest hit yet in artist’s project to regain ownership of her music

    Taylor Swift performing on stage
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    Universal Music sues Anthropic over AI-generated lyrics

    Lawsuit alleges Claude chatbot scraped songs without permission to produce ‘nearly identical’ copies

    Billie Eilish performing at Glastonbury in 2022
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    The incredible resilience of the music industry

    Universal’s new deal on streaming royalties underscores how the major labels have remade themselves throughout the digital era

    Montage of images with Lucian Grainge in the foreground and Kendrik Lamar, Billie Eilish and Rihanna in the background and Spotify and Deezer logos
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    LexStreaming services
    Universal Music: Deezer deal is symbolic but not yet a game-changer Premium content

    New ‘artist-centric’ model might more aptly be described as label-centric

    Rolling Stones band members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood attend a launch event for their new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Universal Music strikes deal to reshape streaming economics

    Agreement with Deezer aims to boost royalties for artists and labels and reduce payouts for ‘noise’

    Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour, at MetLife Stadium in New Rutherford, New Jersey, US
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Warner Music Group Corp
    Warner Music takes majority stake in label run by son of top rival

    Elliot Grainge has criticised major record companies as ‘a conveyor belt’

    The rapper Ice Spice perfroms
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Google and Universal Music negotiate deal over AI ‘deepfakes’

    New technology that can mimic artists’ voices has been seen as growing threat

    The logos of Universal and Google with photos of Drake and Taylor Swift
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    X Corp
    Music publishers sue Twitter over copyright infringement

    Sony Music Group and Universal are among 17 taking a legal challenge against Elon Musk’s company

    Elon Musk
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