UMJ President and CEO Naoshi Fujikura speaks exclusively to MBW
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Category archives: Universal Music
Warning: Universal Music Is Ripping Down ALL Facebook Cover Videos
Uploading cover song videos to Facebook? You might want to stop doing that. Last year, Universal Music Publishing Group, the largest publisher in the world, started ripping down Facebook cover videos. Long story short: Facebook and UMPG couldn’t agree on a royalty agreement for the songs being covered. So the big guns were pointed at […]
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Universal inks deal with MelodyVR for ‘revolutionary music VR experiences’
Deal comes three months after similar agreement was reached with Warner Music Group
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Universal leads $6m funding round in Mass Appeal
Label home of Run The Jewels welcomes Michele Anthony to its board
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Global market shares 2016: Sony and Warner gain on Universal, as indies rule
Universal the market leader – but indies have a bigger combined share
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Universal launches ‘post-classical’ label Mercury KX as part of Decca family
Ólafur Arnalds, Solomon Grey and more signed to imprint
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Universal Music Group’s publishing revenues have grown 18% in two years
Jody Gerson has set quite the record since she took over at the top of 2015
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Universal posts record revenues for 2016 – as streaming overtakes physical sales
Major now pulling in $4.5m a day from streaming alone
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Sony Music artists won more than two-thirds of this year’s BRIT Awards
Warner Music goes home empty-handed at UMG artists collect three gongs
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Universal signs classical superstar Lang Lang… and it’s very pleased about it
Virtuoso pianist leaves behind Sony deal after three years
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