Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee’s Despacito has become the most streamed track of all time.
Six months after release, the song, from Universal Music Latin Entertainment, and its remix featuring ...
1. ED SHEERAN IS QUITE POPULAROK, you probably didn’t need Music Week’s analysis to work that out. But the sheer scale of Sheeran’s ubiquity is laid bare by ...
Market SharesUniversal has been unusually squeezed in the market shares in the last few quarters, but in Q2, David Hawkes declares the market-leading major to be “back in business”. ...
Executives from top labels have declared themselves happy with the Official Singles Chart’s first week under its new rules.
Music Week revealed the chart revamp in its June 26 issue. ...
Raoul Chatterjee doesn’t look like a man under pressure. Music Week meets him at MIDEM, where he cuts a rare cool, calm, deal-making figure amidst the hot and flustered Britpack ...
Universal Music Group has appointed Tuhin Roy to the newly created position of VP new digital business.
Roy will identify and work closely with start-ups in the ‘early-stage digital media ...
Spotify has agreed plans to create a $43.45 million fund to compensate publishers and songwriters whose music is used without payment of mechanical royalties.
The agreement addresses combined copyright infringement ...
Universal Music Enterprises (UME), the global catalogue division of Universal Music Group, has appointed Andre Torres VP of the major’s urban catalogue.
In the newly created role, Torres will work ...
Universal Music Group chairman Sir Lucian Grainge has said Monday night’s terrorist attack at Ariana Grande’s Manchester Arena show “reflects a level of evil beyond comprehension”.
In a letter to ...
