News First wave of merchandise will be introduced with a Beatles pop-up store in New York from December 11-22 News Streaming made up 60.4% of Universal's recorded music revenues in the first half of 2019 Analysis News The sale of up to 50% of UMG could tempt Sony and Warner to consider their options Analysis Merch, hardware, A&R, crowd-funding and more offered by some impressive young companies News Is artist attempting to get his rights back from major music companies? News UMG turns over more than $250m from merch each year Analysis Merch is becoming a huge, and vital, component of artist careers News Global deal sees Universal companies working across multiple rights for British star