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“Black artists consistently top the popular music charts, but African-Americans and other people of colour are not adequately represented in decision-making roles in the music business,” is the first line of a press...

Startup Lickd was founded in 2016 to help YouTubers to license commercial music for use in their videos more easily. The company has been working hard to build a catalogue of music, and has this morning announced its biggest...

There’s still some good news amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Start today with a new aspect to Tencent and Universal Music Group’s partnership: teaming up to deliver personal protective equipment (PPE) to...

Universal Music Group has launched Def Jam Africa, with offices in South Africa and Nigeria but a remit to sign hip-hop, trap and Afrobeats artists from across the continent. The new label is launching with a raft of signings...

Major music companies are continuing to press on with their partnerships in high-potential territories like India, Africa and China. Yesterday brought three such deals. Warner Music Group is allying with Ziiki Media, an Indian...

A flurry of recent reports have noted that in the initial weeks of the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown, music streams declined. Should the industry be worried? Universal Music Group's EVP of digital strategy Michael Nash has...

Vivendi’s latest financial results reveal that Universal Music Group’s revenues grew by 12.7% to €1.77bn (around $1.95bn) in the first quarter of 2020. Recorded music revenues were up by 13.1% to €1.43bn,...

Japan’s transition from sales to streaming has been a long time coming, and there are still some bumps in the road. Now Spotify will have to deal with them under new leadership, after its general manager and president in...

Welcome to the first Sandbox of 2020. Lead: It is now 10 years since we published the very first edition of Sandbox, so to start a new decade we speak to marketers from around the world about the tools and trends that shaped...

It had been reported that Vivendi was keen to finalise its deal to sell 10% of Universal Music Group to a Tencent-led consortium by the end of 2019. It just about squeaked in, with the agreement signed on New Year’s Eve....

As part of a collaboration between UMG, the EMI Trust and youth-community charity The eXceL Project, the three-day education programme Secret Studio has resulted in the release of two new original tracks. The eXceL Project’s...

Richard Branson might have launched Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines but they were two very distinct entities. Now the two worlds are now colliding as Universal Music Group is partnering with Malaysian airline AirAsia to...