Sir Lucian Grainge In The News

HYBE’s Weverse fandom platform just surpassed 10m active users – after company’s revenues grew 21% YoY in Q2

Weverse recently introduced a payment method called Jelly, which enables users to purchase premium VODs

Joie Manda’s Platinum Grammar Publishing adds three senior hires

Matt Spiller joins as General Manager, Adrian Nunez as Head of A&R and Leetal Nissenbaum joins as EVP of Global Sync & Strategic Operations.

Analysis News

Sir Lucian Grainge on rewarding ‘real’ artists, Universal’s global expansion strategy and more from the company’s Q2 earnings call

Highlights from Universal Music Group's Q2 earnings call...

Analysis News

Universal Music generated $2.93bn in Q2 – boosted by sales from superstars like Taylor Swift and King & Prince

Universal Music Group's Q2 revenues up 8.8% YoY at constant currency

Interviews

‘The industry has learned its lesson.’

For 20 years at BMG and Universal, Rob Wells was the music industry’s go-to digital guru. Then he quit. After enduring a ‘trainwreck’ at Crowdmix, he’s now back as CEO of fast-growing rights management company Orfium...

News

Universal Music Group calls on US Congress to pass new rules regulating AI

Jeffrey Harleston, General Counsel and EVP for Business and Legal Affairs at UMG, appeared a Senate hearing this week

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Universal launches The Core Records label venture led by Kevin ‘Chief’ Zaruk and Simon Tikhman

The venture will sign and develop new artists

Analysis

Peloton paid the record industry more than TikTok last year, says Goldman Sachs (and 3 more revelations from financial giant’s latest ‘Music In The Air’ paper)

MBW combs through the latest iteration of one of music's most influential financial reports