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NEAR TRUTHS: SPRING BLOOMS
Here come the big guns. (3/28a)
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/28a)
CITY OF HOPE TAPS MARCIANO FOR TOP HONOR
This year's philanthropic model (3/28a)
TRUST IN THE TOP 20
Hip-hop is no longer hibernating. (3/28a)
UMG BROADENS SPOTIFY OFFERINGS
Sir Lucian and Daniel are in harmony. (3/28a)
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
Blighty Beat
THUMBS DOWN ON TENCENT/UMG DEAL
11/26/19

European independent trade body IMPALA is gearing up to oppose Tencent’s buyout of a 10% stake in Universal Music Group, warning that the transaction will result in “independents being squeezed further and artists also losing out.”

Vivendi has started negotiations with Tencent for a 10% investment in UMG, with a one-year call option to purchase another 10% at the same price and terms. IMPALA believes the sale “would change the whole music ecosystem, and smaller companies will be the first to lose out.”

The org points out that as UMG is the world's biggest music company—and Tencent currently owns four out of five of the leading music apps with an estimated 90% market share in the growing Chinese market—the "creeping influence" of newly combined major companies "will not escape regulatory scrutiny.”

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