It was 10 years since they released music together and wrote Swedish hip-hop history as the successful duo Snook. Yesterday they were reunited and released 'Sitter på en dröm' but under their names Daniel Adams-Ray & Oskar Linnros.

This year’s MOBO nominations have been announced, with several UMPG artists and writers in the running for an award including Laura Mvula, Craig David, Wretch 32, Chase & Status, M.O and writer Kassa Alexander.  Laura Mvula is one of the most nominated artists, up for four awards: Best Female, Best Album for ‘The Dreaming Room’, Best R&B/Soul Act and Best Video for ‘Phenomenal Woman’. 

On his 67th birthday, Friday September 23rd, Bruce Springsteen releases his new album 'Chapter and Verse'. The career-spanning compilation will be released four days before Simon & Schuster publishes the autobiography 'Born to Run'. Five of the album's 18 tracks have never been previously released. 
The same day as the release of the album he will also be guesting the biggest Swedish/Norwegian talkshow 'Skavlan'.

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan have been honoured with the prestigious PEN Song Lyrics Award. The award is bestowed biennially by the writers' group PEN New England – with the aim of recognising excellence in the use of language in songwriting. This year's honorees were chosen by a committee that included U2's Bono, Elvis Costello and Salman Rushdie.

Today finally marks the day of the official release of El Perro Del Mar's 'KoKoro'!

Today it was 20 years since the classic The Cardigans song 'Lovefool' was released in the UK.

On the heels of his new No.1 Billboard 200 debut, recording artist and producer Travis Scott has inked an exclusive, worldwide publishing deal with Grand Hustle Publishing/Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG).

Multi platinum scoring Swedish returns to Universal Music Sweden having scored more than 240 million streams world wide.
15 x platinum in Sweden on 'UFO', 'Shots & Squats' and 'Pong Dance'. 

Swedish viral makers Vigiland are back with 'Let's Escape', the duo's highly anticipated fifth single. 

Bastille release their hugely anticipated second album ‘Wild World’ today through Virgin EMI. The album follows the band’s global 4 million selling, multi-platinum debut ‘Bad Blood’. ‘Wild World’ retains the vivid, rich, filmic song-writing of its predecessor but pushes the band’s distinctive sound in exciting new directions. 

After dominating the charts in Norway for the whole summer Julie Bergan is now taking over Sweden with 'Arigato' - co-written with UMPG writers Simon Strömstedt and Linnéa 'Lune' Martinsson. 
The song is currently #4 on Spotify top 50, #5 on the official single chart and has over 23 million streams on Spotify!

Big congratulations!