Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company. Find out more at: http://www.universalmusic.com. View our current career opportunities at: http://www.umusiccareers.comwww.universalmusic.com
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Sep 19, 2026
Analytic DreamzHOST
I believe this particular live stream had one question to answer, and I think it answered it pretty distinctly.
Analytic DreamzHOST
Drake is still beefing with UMG.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You guys.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
See, that's the problem.
Analytic DreamzHOST
That's the biggest takeaway that I got out of this YouTube live stream.
Analytic DreamzHOST
Drake versus UMG is the biggest thing in the music industry right now because if Drake goes independent, what's stopping him from getting what EA has been receiving as far as specifically, because you know we cover gaming and music and I love when both tie in, right? So, Saudi specifically, right? EA sold for $55 billion to Jared Kushner and Saudi investors.
Analytic DreamzHOST
I covered that October 8th, 2025.
Analytic DreamzHOST
Now, the reason why I bring that up in the midst of a musical discussion is because in the music sense, what's stopping an overseas investor from just taking Drake under their wing and now Drake's independent? I think that's what UMG is kind of seeing because if you notice, comedians are taking bags from certain places, I don't know if it was Saudi as well, and they just seem to have a well of money that's just pouring in, right? It doesn't seem like it's running out anytime soon.
MalHOST
So the full stream is not available yet on his YouTube?
Rory FarrellHOST
No, and, and, and I don't know if it's UMG.
Rory FarrellHOST
A lot of people have been getting strikes for it.
Rory FarrellHOST
Like, I can't even find a, a bootleg version of it.
Andrew WalkerHOST
It's a very sticky subscription that's like on the front of my phone.
Andrew WalkerHOST
And I passed because at the time, you know, this is when Ackman was taking UMG public through PSTA and all this sort of stuff.
Andrew WalkerHOST
I passed because at the time I was also doing work in the music labels and all the music label bulls I talked to were saying Spotify is we're going to run over Spotify in the long term.
Andrew WalkerHOST
And I disagreed, but I was having that like imposter syndrome was like, man, if everybody who studies music labels tells me Spotify is in trouble.
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Andrew WalkerHOST
They don't even need to do it.
Andrew WalkerHOST
You know, wink, wink, nudge.
Andrew WalkerHOST
If they start putting you on the front page or, you know, UMG, you've given us some problems, all right, we're going to go have Warner is going to be in all of our playlists and everything.
Andrew WalkerHOST
Like, they've got a lot of ability to shift really quickly and without people even knowing they're doing it.
Justin HunteHOST
Clip is gone, it had been completely removed by Universal Music Strike, well, Music Strike, that's how I feel about them right now.
Justin HunteHOST
Universal Music Group, and they gave the Clip's channel a copyright strike.
Justin HunteHOST
Nah, I didn't like that at all.
Justin HunteHOST
I ain't like that at all.
Dan RuncieHOST
But it brought more of the challenges up to light.
Dan RuncieHOST
And a lot of the questions that people have had specifically is Universal Music Group and Warner by extension, but are these the type of companies that want to operate like publicly traded companies in a way that Wall Street would want, whether you're setting yourself up for the type of quarterly growth that you had referred to.
Dan RuncieHOST
And I know that Will had spoke to a lot of this on stage.
Dan RuncieHOST
I'm curious, going back to the other question, were there any discussions that were happening in the room that weren't conversations that were reflected on stage? Maybe they complimented or maybe they were just a little bit different from what we had heard on stage.
Dan RuncieHOST
Thank you again to Tati for joining me.
Dan RuncieHOST
Thank you to everyone that made the Trapital Summit possible.
Dan RuncieHOST
Thank you to our gold partners, Symphonic, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group.
Dan RuncieHOST
Thank you to our silver partners as well, Dream Street, Influr, Sharp Metric, and SoundCloud.
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Edo SegalHOST
En ese frente, cierto alivio para la compañía.
Edo SegalHOST
Un juez federal se negó a conceder una medida cautelar solicitada por Universal Music Group, Concord y ABKCO, que habría impedido a Anthropic usar letras de canciones con derechos de autor en su entrenamiento.
Edo SegalHOST
El juez determinó que las editoriales no habían demostrado un daño irreparable y calificó el alcance de una posible orden como inmanejable.
Edo SegalHOST
El caso de fondo continúa.
Steph FlorianHOST
Yeah, so how have you brought those artists under that collective? How has that manifested?
Elliot C. WayGUEST
Me and Bob, mostly, and then we brought in our good friend Nick Lawton, who used to work for Universal Music, and... yeah we just kind of were acting as a record label and we just a lot of the people that we work with are already part of the scene um and then you know as we've discovered incredible artists that have entered the community in the scene we've tried to do our best to foster their exposure and support them in different ways and just promote them.
Elliot C. WayGUEST
We do a lot of shows like this coming Saturday we have our big Vogue show, Hot Country Night Out, which is...
Elliot C. WayGUEST
Hot?
Jason DeFillippoHOST
[laughs]
Brian SchulmeisterHOST
Well, Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have announced a new multi-year licensing agreement and wider strategic collaboration that will see them launch a new AI-powered licensed music platform.
Brian SchulmeisterHOST
The deal with UMG is the first that ElevenLabs has cut with a major label, and the new platform will be distinct from its ElevenMusic AI music generation software.
Brian SchulmeisterHOST
The two companies also intend to collaborate on new AI audio products that can be used by artists, EM- UMG wrote in a press release.
Hasan PikerHOST
It is ridiculous.
Hasan PikerHOST
The CEOs on Universal Music are Jewish? Okay.
Hasan PikerHOST
So what? Again, going back to the Kanye experience here.
Hasan PikerHOST
Do they care about Jews? Do they care about anti-Semitism? Or do they care about Israel? Do they care about their investments in the state of Israel? That's the point.
Duncan GreenGUEST
Yeah, so she's a backer and she's announced that she will come to the platform.
Duncan GreenGUEST
We're in conversations, very extensive conversations with her label, Universal Music.
Duncan GreenGUEST
We're very confident of getting to a deal, but they're a giant organization and We know that that will happen, but we're also very keen to make the terms for a small New Zealand indie like Winegum Records the same as for the biggest label in the world, and we're pretty firm on that.
Duncan GreenGUEST
So far we've been able to stick to it, and we would really like to.
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