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Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘Putting music’s power to work for good may have been more important this year than it’s ever been.’

“There’s no question that 2020 was a year of struggle and tragedies, but it was also a year of courage and heroes.”
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Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘No other music company has ever come close to matching what we achieved this year.’

‘It’s no accident that we have built the largest, most diverse, and most innovative music company in the world.’
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The Universal Music fire may be ‘heartbreaking’ – but don’t expect much impact on the music biz story of the year

“It is not clear to us that the fire in the LA storage facility should have any impact on either the valuation of UMG or the sale process.”
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Dickon Stainer takes over Verve Label Group in reshuffle as Danny Bennett exits UMG

Label group will now have a global artist development and marketing strategy
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Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘We can accelerate artist careers beyond anyone else.’

Universal boss addresses Capitol Music Group’s annual conference
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Dave Rocco joins Universal Music Group as EVP, Creative

Rocco was recently named Global Head of Artist and Label Marketing at Spotify
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Universal ‘accelerates efforts to promote diversity and inclusion’ with new initiative

Sir Lucian Grainge says he hopes to see other music companies join up in future
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How Mika sold 10m albums… then reinvented himself as an award-winning TV star

The musician is a televised superstar in Italy – and has some things to say about Sir Lucian Grainge
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