Universal Music Staff Memo Details Losses in Fire as Survey Continues

By Patrick Hipes

Tencent Music Entertainment, China’s leading online music conglomerate, increased revenues and profits in its 2019 financial year. That follows growth in the number of paying subscribers and their average spend with the company.

Tencent Music Entertainment, China’s leading online music conglomerate, increased revenues and profits in its 2019 financial year. That follows growth in the number of paying subscribers and their average spend with the company.

This might be a game changer, ladies and gentlemen. As movie theaters shutter in New York and Los Angeles, the film world could be largely devoid of new releases until some time in the summer.

NEW YORK -- The show won't go on for the Academy of Country Music, after all.

After winning the 2019 Latin Grammy for best new artist, New York-based Venezuelan singer Nella has signed to Sony Music Latin, Billboard has learned.At the time of signing with Sony Music Latin’s president Alex Gallardo, she was accompanied by her mentor, Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning producer Javier Limón.“Nella is a unique voice,” Gallardo said in a statement. “She was born in Margarita, Venezuela, but it could well have been in Seville or Cádiz.

Back in June, Soundgarden, Steve Earle, and Hole, as well as the estate of Tupac Shakur and a former wife of Tom Petty sued Universal Music Group for over $100 million in damages. The suit was in response to The New York Times Magazine’s bombshell investigation of a 2008 fire at UMG’s Hollywood warehouse that left hundreds of thousands of master tapes destroyed.

When Chris Taylor talks about Entertainment One Music (also known as eOne) becoming Hasbro's new plug-and-play music team, he sounds like a kid in a toy store. "The amount of opportunity that I was hoping would result from this deal

The Tupac Estate and Soundgarden have pulled out of a lawsuit against Universal Music Group that was filed by five artists last year over damage the artists’ musical recordings suffered in a 2008 fire that destroyed many assets in the company’s vaults.

In late 2019, Billie Eilish unveiled "everything i wanted," her tribute to her brother Finneas. The tune features sweet lyrics in the chorus, "As long as I'm here / No one can hurt you," but in a New York Times profile, the teen superstar admits that the song wasn't always so reassuring.Eilish got inspiration for the song a year prior, when she had a dream about taking her own life.

In late 2019, Billie Eilish unveiled "everything i wanted," her tribute to her brother Finneas. The tune features sweet lyrics in the chorus, "As long as I'm here / No one can hurt you," but in a New York Times profile, the teen superstar admits that the song wasn't always so reassuring.Eilish got inspiration for the song a year prior, when she had a dream about taking her own life.

By Mike Fleming Jr

Sounds born at DIY warehouse parties are already fueling big-ticket events in dance music’s capitals. But these smaller cities are the underground’s next big scenes, launching inventive artists, DJs and new sounds.

By Ted Johnson

Hachette Book Group has abandoned plans to publish Woody Allen's autobiography following condemnation of the plan by the controversial director's estranged children, Ronan Farrow and Dylan Farrow, and a protest by the company's employees. Woody has not commented on the decision.