Universal Music and USC Annenberg Expand Partnership to Address Diversity

Luke Combs. UMPG said the pact covers all of the singer's songs going forward, but declined to give any other specifics about the deal.Combs – who was named Billboard’s Top Country Artist of 2019 – has enjoyed a steep ascent since the release of his 2017 album This One’s For You, which spawned such hit singles as “When It Rains It Pours” and “Hurricane,” both co-written by Combs.

#BlueprintForTheFuture report highlights inequalities in the music industry. Find out how your organisation can drive change alongside 18-25s: https://t.co/Sml3mVFsVg pic.twitter.com/G3QAZ3TqcO— Youth Music (@youthmusic) July 8, 2020“For more than two decades, Youth Music has invested in music education projects nationwide supporting the next generation of young musicians.

Universal Music Group is partnering with India’s Desi Melodies, a leader in the recent wave of Punjabi music, in a global distribution deal that underscores the rapid growth in consumption of regional-language content in the emerging market. The deal announced Tuesday (July 7) will solidify both Universal and Desi Melodies’ position at the forefront of India

Brazilian star Marisa Monte, the elegant singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist known for her distinctive vocals and ability to span multiple genres of Brazilian music, has signed a global administration agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterGKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch, directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) and produced by studio co-founder Toshio Suzuki, with planning on the feature from his father and Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).Based on the children’s novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), Earwig and the Witch marks Studio

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJustin Timberlake, a native of Tennessee, has called for the removal of Confederate monuments throughout the country. In an Instagram post on Monday, he wrote, “America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism.

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo said that the U.S.

Bad Bunny, who is named songwriter of the year, Romeo Santos who took the songwriter/artist of the year and Daddy Yankee's "Con Calma" feat. Snow, which received the song of the year award.Meanwhile, Universal Music Publishing Group is awarded with publisher of the year and the independent publisher of the year goes to Kobalt Songs Music Publishing.

Kanye West announced that he's running for president, but he's already received plenty of support from his friends and loved ones.«We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,» the «Wash Us in the Blood» rapper, 43, tweeted on the Fourth of July.

Rapper Kanye West is keen on expanding his current work load as he took to social media on early Sunday morning (IST) to reveal that he plans on running for the 2020 presidential elections in the United States. If being a rapper, producer, record label executive and fashion designer wasn't enough, Kanye took social media by storm as he revealed his presidential interests on America's Independence Day -- 4th of July.

Double J’s Take 5 podcast, Rogers revealed that she began to collate Prince’s vault as a “practical matter” when the artist would demand old reference tapes.“When I first started working for him, he would sometimes say to me at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning ‘bring me this tape or that tape’.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMusic and sports — arguably the two forms of mainstream entertainment hardest hit by the pandemic lockdown — will get some succor on Sunday when ESPN will air its first-ever concert: the Eagles’ “Live from the Forum MMXVIII.”For those whose roman-numeral-translation skills are lacking, the concert dates from 2018, when the group was on an extensive North American tour that found core members Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B.

Eric O'Connor, Dimitri Hurt and Luis Arellano, started out as a company that represented YouTubers. Eventually, says Arellano, president of MPM Latin, “we shifted our business strategy to focus on creating our own intellectual property.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerVoice actor Mike Henry said Friday on Twitter that he no longer will voice the Cleveland Brown character on Fox’s animated Family Guy.Henry, who is white, has voiced the African-American Brown since the show’s inception in 1999. He also voiced the character and his son, Rallo Tubbs, on the spinoff, The Cleveland Show, which ran for four years on Fox.Henry was a voice on Family Guy since its 1999 debut.

Dr. Carmen Lee, an affiliated faculty member with the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the lead researcher for this project.

Rebecca Davis editorUniversal Music Greater China (UMGC), a division of Universal Music Group, said Thursday that it has signed Sunnee, a former member of popular Chinese idol group Rocket Girls 101, which disbanded earlier this week. Sunnee, a Thai singer of Chinese descent whose full Mandarin name is Yang Yunqing, is the first of the former 11-person group to sign with a major music label.