Israeli Duo Static & Ben El Team With Pitbull for Saban Music Group's Debut Release

Raphael Saadiq will serve as executive music producer for the new National Geographic anthology series on Aretha Franklin. As Billboard notes, Terence Blanchard will serve as composer. Genius: Aretha is set to premiere on May 25 at 9 p.m. ET.

With a flagship management client in Dashboard Confessional and a five-strong U.S. team, Australian independent UNIFIED Music Group has successfully navigated the route from Melbourne into the world’s biggest market.

By Ted Johnson

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp returned on Monday to mark 75 years since the death camp was liberated.

The arrival of five-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish -- who took home the night’s sought-after best album, record, song, and best new artist accolades of the night -- set flash bulbs ablaze in the VIP section of Universal Music Group’s post-event party. 

Universal Music Group’s annual Grammy week brunch and showcase (Saturday, Jan. 25) felt like a family gathering of sorts -- with executives and artists joining together to celebrate one another’s biggest accomplishments of the past year.

She Is The Music has announced the next phase of its ongoing work to increase the number of women in music: SITM12, a new campaign in which influential companies will provide the global nonprofit with resources to support its three pillars -- all-female songwriting camps, mentorship and a global database of female creatives.The first partners to commit include 19 major organizations: All three major labels (Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group and Warner Music Group), Disney Music Group,

In what might just be the biggest royal snub since the Queen wore a brooch the Obamas gave her to meet President Donald Trump, Prince Charles appears to flat-out ignore Vice President Mike Pence in a new viral video. The interaction, or lack thereof, occurred at a Holocaust remembrance event in Israel, and although Pence’s team insists that it’s a big misunderstanding, the footage is...telling.

Yesterday, an instantly viral video hit the internet of Prince Charles seemingly at Vice President Mike Pence and refusing to shake his hand. In the video, Prince Charles can be seen greeting world leaders. When Charles reaches Pence, he appears to skip over him, and instead shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Video taken at the World Holocaust Forum on January 23 showed Prince Charles absolutely swerving Mike Pence as the US vice president went in for a handshake.

GR6, one of the largest record labels in Brazil, has signed an exclusive global distribution deal with Ingrooves Music Group.The new agreement represents an expansion into Brazil by the international music marketing services and distribution company, a division of Universal Music Group.

Israeli singers  Liraz Russo (known by his stage name “Static”) and Ben El Tavor, who make up the pop act Static & Ben El, are still pinching themselves. Getting Grammy-winner and multi-hyphenate Pitbull to share top billing on “Further Up (Na, Na, Na, Na, Na),” their newly-released track and video was, in no uncertain terms, a dream for the Israeli duo.

By Nellie Andreeva

Roughly six months since funneling half a billion dollars into new record label and music company Saban Music Group (SMG), entertainment mogul Haim Saban has secured Universal Music Group's support for the venture.

Saban Music Group (SMG), the music company bearing the name of entertainment mogul Haim Saban, has entered into a strategic alliance for global distribution and marketing with Universal Music Group (UMG). Caroline, a subsidiary of UMG’s Capitol Music Group, will handle distribution for the U.S. and globally, where it operates 11 offices. Caroline is run by president Jacqueline Saturn and headquartered at the iconic Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, across town from UMG’s Santa Monica base.