UMG called Drake’s petition “an apparent effort to pressure” UMG and others “to limit the distribution” of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’.

We added to our position in Universal Music Group after the shares swooned by as much as 23% at one point recently. Click here for our UMGNF thesis.

LiAngelo Ball announced on social media Wednesday that the music video for his song, "Tweaker," would be released at noon ET on Thursday. The

Universal Music Group claims that Drake has a "lack of evidence" to support his claim that the company botch "Not Like Us" streams.

It’s official: as MBW reported earlier, Spotify and Universal Music Group have inked a new multi-year licensing agreement. Both sides of the deal have now confirmed their fresh alliance.

Universal Music Group (UMGNF) and Spotify (SPOT) announced new, multi-year agreements for Recorded Music and Music Publishing focused on

Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a new, multi-year direct licensing pact that will cover the United States and several other companies, according to a Sunday release. "When we first presented our vision for the next stage in the evolution of music subscription several months ago -- Steaming 2.

Spotify and Universal have reached a multi-year publishing agreement, which will see new subscription tiers and a richer content catalogue.

Universal Music Publishing Nashville has signed country artist and songwriter Dalton Davis to a global publishing agreement. Davis’ debut album is slated for release in 2025. His second single, Sit Crooked, is approaching half a million streams in just over a month. The third single from the album, Blue Ridge Sky, is set for release on January 31.

Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for Spotify. Six-year-olds enjoy cauliflower more, but now that Spotify just whipped the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) in court,

On Feb. 9, there’s a strong chance that Kendrick Lamar will walk onto the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, and call Drake a pedophile in front of hundreds of millions of viewers.