Universal Music Group News

Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. have both held exploratory talks about an equity stake in music-video service Vevo as part of a broader advertising partnership, The New York Post reported Thursday, citing sources.

Artists Den Entertainment and Universal Music Group will release Robert Plant & the Band of Joy: Live from the Artists Den on 5.1 BluRay and DVD in the US on July 10th.

When Sony Music chief Doug Morris left rival Universal Music Group last year for his current gig, he wanted nothing more than to dethrone the perennial US king of album sales.

Big Machine Records announced on Monday that it signed country superstar Tim McGraw to a worldwide recording deal.

Congrats to UMG /NASHVILLE Sr. VP/Promotion ROYCE RISSER, MCA RECORDS VP/Promotion VAN HAZE, and the promo staff as MCA artist KIP MOORE gets his first #1 this week on the MEDIABASE Country Singles Chart for "Somethin' 'Bout A Truck."

In a press conference held this morning , at the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM in NASHVILLE, BIG MACHINE LABEL GROUP Chairman/CEO SCOTT BORCHETTA announced that he has signed TIM McGRAW to the BIG MACHINE RECORDS LABEL GROUP for a worldwide deal.

Still? Yes indeed, according to estimates shared by a pair of sources, both of whom agreed to disclose top-level compensation details with Digital Music News.

George Clinton and the Black Eyed Peas have settled a lawsuit in which the funk pioneer accused the pop group of improperly using his music.

BLACK SABBATH has signed a deal with merchandising company Bravado , a division of Universal Music Group .

Grainge, the 51-year-old chairman of Universal Music Group, speaks with a genial English accent and was recently named a commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Will the purchase of EMI MUSIC by UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP be OK'd by U.S. regulators? It's a 50/50 proposition, says a REUTERS survey of anti-trust experts.

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U.S. singer Lady GaGa poses with a plaque presented to her by Universal Music Group during a media event for the launch of Singtel's AMPed music service in Singapore June 14, 2009.

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP is expanding its global creative investments by entering into a broad-reaching agreement with prominent artist manager and entrepreneur SCOOTER BRAUN.

Vivendi SA reported first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates on growth at the music division and as earnings held up at French wireless unit SFR amid intensifying competition.

A price war in the French mobile-phone market is weighing on companies' performance in the sector, as Vivendi SA warned that a "price reset" to stem subscriber losses will have a bigger impact in coming quarters.

A U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee is planning a hearing to discuss Universal Music Group's plan to buy EMI's recorded music unit, a deal that would bring the market share of the No.

Vivendi SA plans to reduce operating expenses at its SFR mobile-phone unit by as much as 450 million euros this year through firings, cutbacks in marketing spending and renegotiating contracts with call centers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

The 30 year old has created Guardian Angels Records under Universal Music Group and hopes to find emerging stars both in the U.K. and the U.S. Thom tells Music Week, "We give the artist the opportunity to learn their industry and only work with highly capable individuals.

McAllister & Quinn has been hired by Colorado State University to lobby on "grants assistance," according to lobbying disclosure records.