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    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
      Spotify Technology SA
      India.Arie wants to leave Spotify but albums remain on the service

      Crisis over Joe Rogan’s podcast at streaming company gives music labels a difficult choice

    • Saturday, 2 October, 2021
      FT Weekend podcast25 min listen
      Behind the scenes with music's biggest mogul

      We explore how the music industry has changed and meet its most powerful player, Sir Lucian Grainge

    • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
      Inside BusinessAnna Nicolaou
      Wall Street weighs in on what music is really worth

      Surge in valuations in sector spurred by dizzying array of uses in a digital world

    • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
      Universal Music shares sing on debut delivering $140m payday to CEO

      Amsterdam listing is a big win for Vivendi, which spun off the world’s biggest music label

    • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
      Due Diligence
      Blinding lights: Universal Music’s IPO takes centre stage Premium content

      Plus, more bad news for Credit Suisse’s defunct supply-chain finance funds after the Greensill scandal, and DD lunches with ‘King of Spacs’ Chamath Palihapitiya

    • Sunday, 19 September, 2021
      News in-depth
      Universal Music: how much is the world’s biggest label worth?

      Vivendi to float group valued at €33bn in Amsterdam next week but many believe the price will soar

    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      InterviewFT Magazine
      The last mogul: Universal Music’s Lucian Grainge

      The most powerful CEO in the music industry on defying death, killer deals and taking his record label public

    • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
      Spotify Technology SA
      Music labels split over Spotify’s push to promote songs for lower royalties

      Executives complain new Discovery Mode is ‘payola’ but one Texas frontman sees it as the future

    • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
      Universal Music strikes licensing deal with video-sharing app Lomotif

      Agreement with Singapore-based rival to TikTok comes as music labels look to social media for revenue

    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      LexBill Ackman
      Pershing/UMG: Dance to the music of time Premium content

      Bill Ackman’s deal to acquire a stake in the resurgent music company lives on through his hedge fund

    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      Bill Ackman abandons Spac plan to take $4bn stake in Universal Music

      Hedge fund manager changes course to buy into world’s biggest music label after SEC intervention

    • Sunday, 20 June, 2021
      Ackman’s Spac buys 10% of Universal Music for $4bn

      Deal is first of its kind for a blank-cheque company and comes as music catalogues soar in value

    • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
      LexVivendi SA
      Vivendi/Dan Loeb: gatecrashers have slim chance of beating Bolloré Premium content

      Activist investors must keep their nerve to influence the party

    • Monday, 14 June, 2021
      Media
      Third Point builds stake in Vivendi as Universal vote looms

      Activist fund’s ‘substantial’ position comes as Ackman Spac tries to clinch deal for share in music group

    • Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
      News in-depthSpecial purpose acquisition companies
      Ackman’s Universal Music deal heralds the era of Spac 2.0

      Hedge fund manager’s blank-cheque company is rewriting the rules after boom cools

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Lex
      Bill Ackman/Universal Music: Spac deal strikes a pleasant tune Premium content

      Shareholders should take heart in activist investor’s talks for 10% stake in record label

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Ackman’s Spac close to buying 10% of Universal Music

      Deal would value world’s largest record label at more than $40bn

    • Monday, 15 February, 2021
      Vivendi SA
      Vivendi to spin out Universal Music Group

      French media conglomerate will own only 20 per cent of its biggest business after the operation

    • Friday, 29 January, 2021
      Universal Music looks to expedite planned listing

      World’s largest record label seeks to capitalise on frothy stock market

    • Monday, 21 December, 2020
      Media
      Concord music in deal with Universal as music booms

      The soaring value of song catalogues has led to a frenetic bidding war

    • Monday, 7 December, 2020
      Universal Music buys Bob Dylan’s music catalogue in ‘9-figure deal’

      The times are changing as the value of music rights rockets in the streaming era

    • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
      LexVivendi SA
      UMG IPO/Vivendi: not going for a song Premium content

      Investors have growing confidence in €30bn valuation ascribed to music company

    • Friday, 2 October, 2020
      Streaming services
      Amazon remasters streaming tracks in effort to woo subscribers

      Ecommerce group works with Universal and Warner Music as high-quality audio becomes industry’s front line

    • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
      Social affairs
      ‘Urban’ music drawn into controversy amid US racial reckoning

      Debate emerges inside Universal Music over use of term to describe work by black artists

    • Saturday, 4 April, 2020
      Intellectual property
      Music companies threaten to sue TikTok over copyright

      Universal and others accuse video-sharing app of using their songs without licences

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