Sir Lucian Grainge In The News

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From Queen’s $1bn catalog to HYBE raising $380m for acquisitions in the US… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

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TikTok is under fire from some of music’s most powerful players. Its global music boss says the future’s bright – and answers some tough questions.

Ole Obermann sits down with MBW to talk payouts, Resso, and that Australia experiment

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Rob Stringer says music streaming fraud ‘is a problem that must be eliminated’, calls for better payouts from short-form video platforms

Sony Music Group Chairman covers various key industry topics in presentation to Sony Corp investors

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There are now 120,000 new tracks hitting music streaming services each day

A total of 10.08 million new songs uploaded to the likes of Spotify, YouTube Music and other music streaming services in the first three months of the year alone

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HYBE just released a K-pop track sung in six different languages using AI voice technology

HYBE releases 'first-ever multilingual track produced in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese'

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From Google’s AI music generator to Robert Kyncl on music streaming’s payout and pricing models… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

Analysis Blog

Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 2)

This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.

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Sir Lucian Grainge remuneration package approved by Universal Music Group shareholders

Sir Lucian Grainge has also been re-appointed as UMG's Executive Director (a position he holds in addition to being the company's Chairman and CEO) for five more years