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Universal Music Group

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Is Google Censoring Links?

    Not too long ago, there was talk that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the Recording Industry Association of America might sue Google, claiming that the web behemoth has used its search engine service to shape the online music market in a way trade groups do not like. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Radio Hits One: Birdman Is Rap's Richest Second Banana

    A few weeks ago, Forbes published The Forbes Five, which estimated the net worth of hip hop's wealthiest moguls, and put Cash Money Records boss Bryan "Birdman" Williams in fourth place with $125 million. Just two weeks later, Williams announced that his label's most successful artist, Lil Wayne, ha ... More >>

  • Music

    April 11, 2012

    Lil B and Other Forward-Thinking Artists Do It Themselves

    Off the cloud

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Bruce Springsteen's New Single, And Four Other Songs That Might Show Up On Pazz & Jop 2012

    Last night at midnight—just like the old days!—the new single from Bruce Springsteen, "We Take Care Of Our Own," premiered on the radio—just like the, oh, you know. The song, taken from Springsteen's forthcoming Wrecking Ball (out March 6), is a slow-build, string-spangled anthem t ... More >>

  • Music

    December 7, 2011

    Lana Del Rey Hides in Plain Sight

    This is my confession

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    100 & Single: The Erratic Chart Fortunes Of TV-Crowned Idols, From Kelly To Scotty

    ​Scotty McCreery—winner of the 10th edition of American Idol, and owner of the new No. 1 title on Billboard's album chart, Clear as Day—sets a handful of chart records this week that certainly sound impressive. As Billboard reports, McCreery is the first country act to debut at No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Hip-Hop's Top Ten Otis Redding Samples

    ​"Otis" fever is in full effect, thanks to the Otis Redding-sampling song from Jay-Z and Kanye West's much-ballyhooed Watch The Throne project leaking Wednesday night. The track's production, based around a slick chop of Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," might be the most impressive thing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Lady Gaga Thinks 99-Cent Albums Are Great (In A Way)

    Don't worry, Universal Music Group—she's not really betraying you. ​Much is being made of Lady Gaga's admission to the Wall Street Journal that her album Born This Way—at least, the digital version of it without the bonus tracks—isn't worth more than the 99 cents Amazon charg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    How Your Cover Sausage Gets Made: The Likely Inspirations For Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Cover

    ​Late Friday night Lady Gaga released the cover for her forthcoming big deal of an album Born This Way, and reaction to it was fairly swift, and mostly "huh?" The cover, as you can see at left, features Gaga as a half-woman, half-motorcycle, and the more vocal Gaga fans out there tried to spin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    News Corp. Can't Give Myspace Away

    ​Myspace, the long-floundering social networking site acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580 million in 2005, has been planning a mid-2011 sale for some time, though interest has been decidedly low. Last year alone, ad spending dropped 37%, while they lost 15% of total users, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Changes At eMusic: Def Jam In, Matador And Merge Out

    Better go get this now.​If you want a one-URL "major" vs. "indie" battleground -- what defines and/or divides them, which lifestyle brand the discerning-legal-downloader demographic really prefers -- you could do far worse than eMusic, the excellent monthly-subscription MP3 service (which empl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Attention 14-Year-Old Reggaeton Artists: Your Moment Has Finally Arrived (According to This Shady Flyer)

    ​As spotted and carried away from the intersection of 4th and Bowery this morning. Could this flyer possibility be legitimate? Interscope, Young Money, and Universal are in fact all the same company (if three very disparate wings of it); those are indeed their logos. But is this really how bad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    The Top Seven Most Surprising Revelations From Jay-Z's Roundtable Conversation With Warren Buffett and Steve Forbes

    ​Recently Forbes staged an event a long time coming, bringing Jay-Z and the billionaire Warren Buffett to the same table as part of something they're calling the Forbes 400 Summit. People have been speculating about this meeting for years now--some quite prophetically--and as interlocutor, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Remy Ma's Victim Presses On With Suit Against Label

    Rapper Remy Ma's shooting victim is borrowing legal strategies from suits against pedophile priests to press her multimillion-dollar claim against the femcee's label, Universal Music Group. It's the label's fault, so the argument goes. Remy Ma is currently serving an eight-year jail sentence at Rik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    So Was Lil Wayne's Rebirth a Modest Success Or a Total Commercial Failure? Maura Johnston Reads the Charts

    "Billboard's 'Tastemakers' chart is the one we should all paying attention to, don't you think?"​This week's Billboard 200 is headed once again by Lady Antebellum, the milquetoast country trio whose second album Need You Now moved 481,000 copies in its debut week, and 209,000 copies in the sal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 7: Nicole Scherzinger, "Puakenikeni"

    F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. In which the lead Pussycat Doll does her best Georgia O'Keefe impersonation, and nobody notices.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 15: Hinder, "Born To Be Wild"

    F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Get your motor runnin'...head out on the fast track to synergyville.

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    News Roundup: Ryan Adams, Raekwon, The-Dream

    ​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Shooting Victim Fires $80M Lawsuit at Remy Ma

    ​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2007

    Jay-Z, Returning Yet Again

    ​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2007

    Ten Favorite Moments on Kanye West's Graduation

    ​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2007

    Universal Records Fucks Up Bad

    ​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

  • Music

    March 6, 2007

    Gimme "Indie" Rock

    Another payola settlement promises us better, braver radio. Let's not get too excited just yet.

  • Film

    May 16, 2006

    'Favela Rising'

    Another payola settlement promises us better, braver radio. Let's not get too excited just yet.

  • Music

    March 21, 2006

    So Sick

    Biz bites the kids that feed it as radio battles everybody

  • Music

    January 10, 2006

    Music

    Biz bites the kids that feed it as radio battles everybody

  • Music

    September 13, 2005

    Pulling the White Strings

    Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

  • Music

    December 7, 2004

    Fair Useless

    Corporations vainly scheme to the beat of a different DRM

  • Music

    August 3, 2004

    Music

    Corporations vainly scheme to the beat of a different DRM

  • Music

    May 25, 2004

    Sick and Mortar

    Real record stores open, close, move, struggle, and thrive

  • Music

    December 30, 2003

    MLK Fever

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    November 18, 2003

    Five to Three

    Merger mania picks back up; a smaller Warner gives up

  • Music

    October 7, 2003

    A Void Named Sued

    Driving independent retailers, and you, out of business

  • Music

    September 9, 2003

    Everything's on Sale

    Universal Reversals, Webcast Battles, RIAA-Safe Tuneage

  • Music

    August 20, 2002

    Take the Long Way Home

    Universal Reversals, Webcast Battles, RIAA-Safe Tuneage

  • Music

    July 2, 2002

    Missouri Loves Company

    Universal Reversals, Webcast Battles, RIAA-Safe Tuneage

  • Music

    June 4, 2002

    Made for Walkin'

    New Boots and Panties

  • News

    June 4, 2002

    Blacked Out

    Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

  • Music

    March 5, 2002

    Born to Be Alive

    Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

  • Music

    September 25, 2001

    One-Hitter

    Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

  • News

    August 8, 2000

    Crossover Dreams

    Latin Alternative Rock Sets Its Sights on New York

  • Long Island Voice

    November 30, 1999

    Still Rough Enuff to Break from NY To Long Island

    Latin Alternative Rock Sets Its Sights on New York

  • Long Island Voice

    November 2, 1999

    Can you picture this?

    Latin Alternative Rock Sets Its Sights on New York

  • Long Island Voice

    October 26, 1999

    headline

    Latin Alternative Rock Sets Its Sights on New York

  • News

    August 17, 1999

    'Some dubious motive or initiative'?

    At the Interactive Music XPO, mp3 everywhere but no SDMI

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