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Watch out, Suno. Spotify on Thursday announced it has partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to allow fans to use generative AI technology to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs. The tool will launch as a paid add-on available only to Spotify’s Premium subscribers and will offer a revenue share with participating artists…
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management unveiled a non-binding proposal to the board of directors of music giant Universal Music Group (UMG), the musical home of such stars as Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, to acquire all of its outstanding shares in a mega-transaction valued at around $63.5 billion, “together with a value creation plan…
Universal Music India has taken a significant minority stake in leading Indian production banner Excel Entertainment, deepening its push into India’s fastest-growing entertainment market and forging a new pipeline between the country’s local film content and global music distribution. The deal, unveiled on Monday, values Excel at ₹2,400 crore (approximately $290 million). Under the agreement,…
Lucian Grainge‘s patience is seemingly wearing thin as Universal Music Group‘s legal battle with rapper Drake rumbles on. In a declaration letter, filed on Thursday with the Southern District of New York and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the all-powerful head of UMG, the world’s biggest music company, fired back at Drake’s latest push to…
The business of music long has been an incestuous one, even when the players aren’t related. But some of the leaders of today’s recorded music industry — 84 percent of which is housed under the three major label groups, Universal, Warner and Sony — actually are. When Lucian Grainge, chairman and CEO of UMG, took…
Universal Music Group is set to relocate its New York offices, the company announced Tuesday, as the world’s largest music company has signed a lease in the Penn 2 building in Manhattan. UMG is expected to make the move in 2027. The new offices will serve as the headquarters for UMG’s East Coast Republic Collective,…
Music streamer Spotify and Warner Music Group (WMG) unveiled a new, multi-year agreement on Thursday that covers both recorded music and music publishing. Through the deal, which follows a similar agreement between Spotify and Universal Music Group, the companies said they would “strengthen their joint commitment to artists, songwriters, and fans, as well as the growth of…
Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new multiyear deal on Sunday, establishing a direct license between the streamer and music label in the U.S. and several other countries. The agreement will be focused on “growth, innovation and the advancement of artists’ and songwriters’ success,” a press release said. The release also noted that artists,…
Music giant Universal Music Group (UMG) and Amazon Music unveiled an expanded global relationship on Monday that they said would “enable further innovation, exclusive content with UMG artists, and advancement of artist-centric principles including increased fraud protection.” The partners said they would “work collaboratively to address, among other things, unlawful AI-generated content, as well as protecting…
Drake’s feud with Kendrick Lamar has reached another level: The Canadian rapper is claiming that Universal Music Group and Spotify have inflated the streams of Lamar’s diss song aimed at him. Drake’s Frozen Moments company filed a petition in a New York court Monday, alleging that UMG — the parent label both rappers are signed…