Universal Music Group In The News
News Warner CEO Steve Cooper suggests the major had little choice thanks to safe harbor laws News The upcoming album will be recorded this summer and is the follow up to 2008’s So, Who’s Paranoid? News With over 100 million active users, Russian Facebook VKontakte (VK) has the same sized audience as Spotify News British exec will receive gong in France next month Analysis Streaming was up over 40% at US$ constant currency - with recorded revenues growing News Streaming growth fails to offset unfavorable currency exchange News Beyonce's Lemonade was last year's biggest seller - but Warner took the lion's share of list Analysis Could Alibaba, Tencent, Apple, Google or Access Industries buy their way into UMG?