On November 17th Anna Ternheim released her new album 'All The Way To Rio' - and now she's being acclaimed on all fronts.

Today marks 30 years since the original release of The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl’s classic Christmas song ‘Fairytale of New York’. Since its original release in the eighties 'Fairytale of New York' has become one of the most loved Christmas pop songs of all time and has made an appearance in the Top 20 every year since 2005. It has sold over a million copies, is the most played Christmas song of the century (PPL, 2011) and frequently tops polls for people’s favourite Christmas songs of all time. 

This week, UMPG Global Chairman and CEO Jody Gerson spoke at the prestigious Glamour 2017 Women of the Year Live Summit.

The global leader in entertainment research has expanded the focus and renamed its ground-breaking Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative, and created a new advisory board. Universal Music Group and other prominent members of the music industry join initiative to create measurable change for representation of women and underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

UMPG writer and producer MagnusTheMagnus (aka Magnus Lidehäll) tops Billboard & Clio's top TV Commercials chart, for October, with 'Area'. The track leads the chart after its appearance in Apple iPhone 8's 'Unveiled' commercial. 

After four years of silence - Oskar Linnros posted "this year I will say everything" this spring. Since then we have followed the artist Oskar Linnros, his feelings and his fantastic music. His musical shape has never been better, both on stage and in the studio. 

Years & Years have collaborated with H&M and the very talented director Baz Luhrmann(Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby) to write the song ‘Hypnotised’ for the campaign film for H&M’s forthcoming collaboration with Erdem.

Behind HUMAN stands a Grammy award-winning Swedish artist Daniel Adams-Ray, who has previously released multi-platinum selling albums under his own name. Now he's releasing 'HIGHER' in English - first single from coming album set to be released in 2018.

At the second Music Business Worldwide awards held last night, Universal Music Publishing Group artists and team took home four awards. Caroline Elleray was honoured with the Sir George Martin award, Steve Mac took home 'Songwriter of the Year' and 'Producer of the Year' while the company as a whole won 'Publisher of the Year.'

'Ted Gärdestad - Signerat Peter Nordahl' - an album on which arranger and producer Peter Nordahl has removed the instruments, only kept the original vocals by Ted Gärdestad and framed the vocals with new orchestrated arrangement performed by Norrköping's Symphony Orchestra.
The concert on October 22nd was sold out and and a new has been announced. On January 14th we can enjoy this masterpiece in a live version at Konserthuset in Stockholm.