Sir Lucian Grainge In The News

Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s Universal Music Capital Markets day opening address in full: ‘Streaming will continue to propel many years of industry growth.’

Superfandom, quantum leaps, and fundemental facts...

Universal’s direct-to-fan business has been growing at a whopping 33% rate, and 3 other things we learned at UMG’s Capital Markets Day

UMG has revealed it's working with Spotify on the streaming platform's new 'Super-Premium' subscription tier

Web3 music streaming platform Tune.FM raises $50m in funding

The company has now raised $80M in its efforts to cut out the middleman between artists and music streamers

From the RIAA’s H1 US recorded music market stats to UMG’s stock upgrade… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

This analyst has watched Universal Music Group closely for years (and hasn’t always been mega-positive). He just upgraded UMG’s stock for the second time in 12 months.

William Packer of BNP Paribas Exane has upgraded UMG's stock in the wake of downgrades by other analysts

Bill Ackman unworried by Universal Music Group subscription revenue blip

Wall Street analysts were disappointed that UMG's subscription streaming revenues 'only' grew 6.9% YoY in the quarter

Louis Bloom on Island Records, his mentors, his values, and his ambitions

Island Records is enjoying quite a moment, quite a year, quite a run. UK President Louis Bloom speaks to MBW

Universal Music Group and Meta ink new global deal, covering Facebook, Instagram… and WhatsApp

Deal also covers Meta properties including Messenger, Horizon and Threads