Universal Music Group In The News

Downtown, Hipgnosis and NMPA rally behind Universal Music Group in its fight with TikTok

Andrew Bergman, David Israelite, Merck Mercuriadis all publicly support UMG's position

From Universal’s feud with TikTok to YouTube Music’s 100m subscribers… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

As Universal Music hits begin to vanish from TikTok, UMG accuses platform of ‘unwillingness to appropriately compensate artists and songwriters, protect human artists from the harmful effects of AI, and address online safety issues’

Removal of UMG's catalog follows the collapse of the two parties' licensing talks

Big change at Universal Music Group: John Janick and Monte Lipman to head up newly-restructured label groups in the US

Both key executives increase responsibilities at UMG

As YouTube Music hits 100m paid subscribers, Lyor Cohen says the platform ‘cares profoundly about the health of the music industry’

YouTube has surpassed 100 million paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers worldwide

TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about)

What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out

Kenny Ong appointed Managing Director for Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore at Sony Music

Ong to spearhead the company's expansion and strategic development across the region

Big Machine Label ups Mike Rittberg to COO, Clay Hunnicutt to EVP, Label Operations

Rittberg, a veteran of Universal Music Group, joined Big Machine in 2017, while Hunnicutt, formerly of Big Loud, joined in 2019