Following the Publisher of the Year win at the Music Week Awards, UMPG MD Mike McCormack sat down with Music Week to talk A&R, what it takes to be Publisher of the Year, and the importance of young, emerging talent. 

Last weeks have been successful for Vargas & Lagola. They have released new single 'Since ‘99' and opened for Swedish House Mafia in Stockholm.
Avicii collaboration Tough Love (ft. Agnes, Vargas & Lagola) out today.

Universal Music Publishing Group UK received the award for Music Publisher of the Year at last night's Music Week Awards.

On May 2nd, 3rd and 4th Swedish House Mafia did their first shows since 2013.

Amason is back! The band – comprising the combined talents of acclaimed Swedish musicians Amanda Bergman, Pontus Winnberg, Petter Winnberg, Gustav Ejstes and Nils Törnqvist – who released their acclaimed debut album 'Sky City' in 2015, are finally back with new music.

'Quicksand' is a Swedish crime drama, based on the 2016 novel with the same title by Malin Persson Giolito, and is the first ever Swedish Netflix original series. 
A cover of Jonathan Johansson's 'Rosa himmel' is one of the track by UMPG artists and writers featured in the series.

Veronica Maggio releases new single 'Kurt Cobain' and announces new album to arrive later this year.

This year's winner of Hyundai Nordic Music Prize is Robyn with the astonishing album, Honey, released through her own label Konichiwa Records.

For the second year running Vargas & Lagola tops the list over writers behind the most popular songs in Sweden.

Christopher's long anticipated album 'Under the Surface' and new single 'My Heart' is out now.