Universal Music Group In The News

Universal Music Publishing Australia MD Bob Aird announces retirement

Aird joined UMPG as part of Rondor in 2000

Spotify ready for streaming showdown as it raises $1bn in convertible debt

Expect some big spending from Daniel Ek in the coming months

SoundCloud launches subscription service ‘Go’ in the US market

SoundCloud Go makes platform a real rival to the likes of Spotify and Apple Music

200m takedown requests later, BPI tells Google: this is getting silly

Geoff Taylor calls for 'notice and stay down' policy from search giant

Universal tries to break artist via multi-million pound ad campaign

Norma Jean Martine is at centre of McArthurGlen campaign

Spotify suffers another blockbuster hold-out in the Year of Windowing

Gwen Stefani: 'I need to get some kind of compensation'

Republic’s Trina Tombrink joins RED Distribution in New York City

Exec played key role in breaking James Bay and Florence & The Machine

It’s a big week for the Artist Services model in the UK

The entire Top 4 of Saturday's Chart Update were released through model