Universal Music Group has reported its first full-year financial results as a standalone company following its IPO.
UMG successfully listed on Amsterdam’s Euronext exchange in September 2021.
Universal Music Publishing Group has signed a huge deal with Sting for his entire songwriting catalogue, including solo songs as well as those by The Police.
The catalogue was previously ...
For the 32nd week running the No.1 album changes hands. This week's sales champion by some considerable distance is Lana Del Rey with her delayed seventh album Chemtrails Over The ...
Sting & Shaggy are touring the UK together this week, promoting their unlikely collaboration album 44/876. Released last year, the album peaked at No.9 in the UK and has sold ...
As promoter of the event he once attended as a fan, John Giddings is the common thread between the Isle Of Wight Festival’s famed 1970 incarnation and its 2002 revival. ...
David Bowie“There are so many amazing songwriters from Carole King, Burt Bacharach, the old classics, but David Bowie’s got to be my favourite singer/songwriter. Just a total musical chameleon, ...
A while ago, this column suggested that the fact that Adele’s 25 was No.1 on iTunes in more territories than any other album that week was evidence that there was ...
Rap is on a roll, and has supplied the most eagerly awaited new albums of each of the past three weeks, via Cardi B’s Invasion Of Privacy, J Cole’s ...
In the days when the music business was awash with cash, it usually treated neighbouring rights income as you might treat finding loose change down the back of the sofa: ...
Should you ever be in close proximity to the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Ivor Novello Award, chances are you’ll hear him before you see him.
As soon as ...
