Universal Music Group
3 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 25 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jan 24, 2022 positive
Swift's Credible Threat to Self-Distribute Helped Win Her Master Ownership
“She has the opportunity to take advantage of scale economies and bring stuff in-house that no other artist could bring in-house. She's not necessarily doing that, but I think the fear that she could do that is one way that she got the deal that she did, where …”
Jan 24, 2022 positive
Swift's UMG Deal Retains Future Masters Ownership With a 10-Year License
“The way that her deal with UMG works is She actually maintains the ownership of her future master recording rights, and she licenses them to the label. I own this the minute we press the album and you can use them. But that is not an unlimited period of time. …”
Jan 24, 2022 positive
Swift Forced UMG to Distribute Spotify Equity to Artists Non-Recoupably
“In Taylor's negotiation, as a sticking point in her contract with UMG, she forced their hand to do the best deal of any of the labels by far. It's not public, but people think it's at least the same thing that Warner did, 25%. But non-recoupable, and given the…”