Category archives: Universal Music

Universal’s Mercury Studios to make new first ever feature-length documentary about Abbey Road Studios, If These Walls Could Sing

Documentary to be produced by multi award-winner John Battsek, as Mercury inks new development deal with Battsek’s Ventureland
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‘Streaming’s growth in Africa is already exciting, but there’s so much more we can do’

Zimbabwean, British-raised exec Sipho Dlamani is heading up Universal Music Group in much of Africa. He forecasts a big future for the region and its impact around the world…
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Universal buys Bob Dylan publishing rights, acquiring catalog worth hundreds of millions of dollars

Expert industry sources tells MBW that Dylan’s catalog would command a pricetag somewhere in the region of $250m to $400m in the current frothy music rights M&A marketplace
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Universal launches audio-visual content house Mercury Studios, led by CEO Alice Webb

Eagle Rock brand retired; Mercury Studios will produce content across performance/live, factual/reality, scripted, artist and filmmaker partnerships
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Universal’s new $1.2bn Mississippi hotel to be completed in 2023, with 12,000-cap venue, holograms and virtual reality entertainment

UMUSIC Broadwater will also have a 12,000-cap music venue
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Stat Of The Week: Universal is building its own hotels, including a $1.2bn complex in Mississippi

MBW’s Stat Of The Week is an article series in which we show why a single data point deserves the attention of the global music industry. Stat Of the Week is supported by Cinq Music Group, a technology-driven record label, distribution, and right…