Warner Music Group Partners With Hollywood Hitmakers Imagine Entertainment

Spotify and Universal Music Group have finalized a new and expanded multi-year global licensing agreement. As part of the arrangement, announced Wednesday, the label group deepens its role as an early adopter of Spotify's marketing tools and other tech features that both parties hope will foster more impactful connections between fans and artists in innovative ways.

Spotify and Universal Music Group have finalized a new and expanded multi-year global licensing agreement.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotify and Universal Music Group, one of the industry’s three biggest music companies, announced a multiyear global music licensing pact.Under the deal, UMG will “deepen its leading role as an early adopter of future products” on Spotify’s platform and “provide valuable feedback to Spotify’s development team,” the companies said.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotify and Universal Music Group, one of the industry’s three biggest music companies, announced a multiyear global music licensing pact.Under the deal, UMG will “deepen its leading role as an early adopter of future products” on Spotify’s platform and “provide valuable feedback to Spotify’s development team,” the companies said.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has announced the external members of its Board of Directors. According to the announcement, the five leaders will help ensure the Fund’s governance will include independent oversight and accountability.

Warner Music Group (WMG) and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have announced the external board of directors for their joint Social Justice Fund, including executives from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. The $100 million fund was announced in June following "#TheShowMustBePaused," an industry-wide campaign to sho

Universal Music Group is making voting easier for its U.S. employees by making Election Day 2020, Nov. 3, a paid company holiday. The company announced the news to staffers in an internal memo Friday (July 17) and obtained by Billboard.  “After all, the right to vote is the very foundation of democracy -- perhaps of freedom itself,” read

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSony Music Group, which includes of Sony Music Entertainment and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, announced it has named non-profit leader Towalame Austin executive vice president, philanthropy and social impact.

DEALSSony/ATV has signed the songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Linus Wiklund to a global publishing deal. He is known for his work with Avicii, Zedd, David Guetta, Rita Ora and more.

As music biopics on superstars like Elton John, Elvis and Aretha Franklin continue to dominate the big screen, Imagine Entertainment has inked amulti-year strategic partnership with Warner Music Group. Under the pact, the banner from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will co-produce and co-finance a slate of projects that will span film, television, documentary and short-form content.

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Cynthia Littleton Business EditorImagine Entertainment and Warner Music Group have cut a deal to co-produce and co-finance a slate of music-themed projects for a range of film, TV and digital outlets.The deal is an outgrowth of the pair’s partnership on the upcoming Nat Geo limited series “Genius: Aretha,” revolving around the life of legendary musician Aretha Franklin, whose prime catalog of recordings is largely owned by Warner Music Group.The deal envisions projects for feature films,

The upcoming 2020 MTV Video Music Awards will be held with “limited or no audience”, according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Many awards shows have been postponed or cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic this year, but on Monday, Cuomo announced the annual music prizegiving will go ahead on 30 August with few spectators and in accordance with social distancing safety protocols.

Matt Signore will be leaving the company at the end of the year, according to an internal memo sent by WMN chairman/CEO John Esposito today (June 30) that was obtained by Billboard.Signore has spent 15 years at the Warner Music Group in different capacities, and had been COO at Warner Nashville since January 2017. He first joined the major from Island Def Jam in 2005, as chief financial officer of Warner’s artist and label services division WEA.

Farruko's record label Carbon Fiber Music, which he co-founded with manager and business partner Franklin Martinez in 2014, has signed a global distribution deal contract with Ingrooves Music Group, Billboard can confirm.

(Reuters) - The MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) show will take place in New York at the end of August, MTV and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday, marking the first major awards show since the coronavirus pandemic that will occur in a physical venue.MTV and Cuomo said the Aug.

Guillermo Gonzalez has been named president of Warner Music Iberia, effective immediately.González, who previously held the role of GM for the label, will report to to Iñigo Zabala, president Warner Music Latin America and Iberia.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNew York City, which was the initial global epicenter of COVID-19, will host the MTV Video Music Awards on August 30 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the date and venue Monday during one of his regular briefings about the pandemic.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmNational Geographic Documentary Films will release the Ron Howard-directed documentary Rebuilding Paradise in select theaters — physical and digital — on July 31 through Abramorama. The film tells the moving story of a California community ravaged by disaster that comes together to recover what was lost.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSaban Music Group (SMG), the music company bearing the name of entertainment mogul Haim Saban, has entered into a global administration deal with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the companies announced today.Running SMG since its July 2019 launch is Gustavo Lopez, himself a Universal Music Group veteran.