Universal Music Greater China signed-artist Linong Chen scores this year’s fastest selling debut album in the market

Unbelonging surpassed more than 4.5m track sales within 12 hours of release

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Universal Music Group accelerates China strategy, with Joe Fang named first ever MD of UMPG in region

Hiring represents UMG’s first major move in China since Tencent consortium deal was completed
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Forget the $3bn Tencent acquisition – Universal is planning to IPO before 2023

At the close of last year, MBW broke the news that Universal Music Group had inked definitive documents to sell 10% of its company to a consortium led by Tencent Holdings Ltd – a stockholding that could this year rise to 20%. We also told you that UMG …

Watch Lead A&R Benny Scarrs Talk Navigating the Music Industry (Dave, Tinchy Stryder)

Benny Scarrs is a Point Blank Music School alumni who, since graduating from the Music Production & Sound Engineering course, has achieved some incredible feats. He’s been working in the music industry for a number of years now – having been involved with events booking talents such as Professor Green, Mr Hudson, Labyrinth and many more. Following these accolades, the […]

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Tencent’s Universal bid needed rescuing – but might now go as high as 30% (report)

Tencent’s bid for 10-20% of Universal nearly fell through, but now it probably looks back on track
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Frank Briegmann at Universal Inside 2019: ‘We want the entire ecosystem of the music industry to grow with us’

Universal artists generated a total of 19.5bn streams in Germany in the first eight months of 2019
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Exec who launched Universal’s Digster and Spinnup in Sweden starts platform for fans to invest in artists ‘without a traditional label’

Mattias Tengblad and Emil Angervall launch Corite out of Sweden with interesting fan-funding model
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