Sir Lucian Grainge is excited. Investors certainly seem happy, with Vivendi's share price up in Paris after the announcement. Those who were starting to believe the slow-moving Universal Music ...
Music Week broke the news last month that Concord is launching a UK label operation. It follows a few years of serious growth on the music publishing side of ...
Vivendi has finally silenced the speculation – and some doubters – about the sale of a stake in Universal Music Group. A year after the process was first announced, ...
Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent Holdings Limited is in talks with Vivendi to acquire a 10% stake in Universal Music Group (UMG).
The proposed deal would value UMG at €30 billion ...
Spotify has reported that premium subscribers hit 108 million, a year-on-year increase of 31%.
The company also confirmed it has reached agreement with two major label partners on the renewal ...
Universal Music Group has hired Mike Biggane from Spotify to the newly-created role of EVP of music strategies and tactics.
Biggane (pictured), who most recently served as Spotify’s ...
The sale of a minority stake in Universal Music Group is continuing “step by step”.
That was the message from Arnaud de Puyfontaine, CEO of parent company Vivendi as it ...
The sale of up to 50% of Universal Music Group could be moving closer.
Parent company Vivendi announced the plan more than a year ago to secure investment from a ...
Fred Gillham is to head up the new recorded music operation at Concord in the UK, Music Week can exclusively reveal.
Gillham has started as MD of recorded music, following ...
There is so much to unpack in the Taylor Swift/Scooter Braun/Scott Borchetta dispute that it feels like moving house.
But beyond speculating which celebrity will be next to be dragged ...
