Just a few days before Super Bowl Sunday, Billboard.biz ran a major feature spotlighting our own Tom Eaton, SVP of Music for Advertising, and the stellar UMPG advertising team.

Universal Music Publishing Australia has signed a global music publishing deal with rising Melbourne artist/producer Woodes, it was announced today by Andrew Jenkins, President of Universal Music publishing Australasia, and Arwen Curson, VP Creative of Universal Music Publishing Australia and New Zealand.

On the heels of his first Oscar nomination and showstopping Academy Awards performance of “Cant Stop The Feeling,” JT readies his next album and meets his idol Bill Withers.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of their songwriting partnership, Elton John and Bernie Taupin have launched a competition to find emerging talent to create videos for their iconic songs, "Rocket Man," "Tiny Dancer" and "Benny and the Jets." Entitled "The Cut," the competition has been created in partnership with Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Grammy Award-wining music video maker Melina Matsoukas, and Golden Globe winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins.

At the sold out iconic Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, Universal Music Publishing has 16 incredible artists performing including The xx, Travis Scott, Empire of The Sun, Future, Martin Garrix, and New Order plus Banks & Steelz, Bastille, Crystal Castles, Kungs, Raury, Shura, Tale of Us, Tory Lanez, Toots & The Maytals and Tourist. The three day festival will take place two weekends this year, Friday April 14 – Sunday April 16 and Friday April 21 – Sunday April 23.

Adele's third studio album ‘25’ is officially the biggest album of 2016 in the UK, followed by Coldplay’s ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ - according to data from the Official Charts Company.

Spotify have named Coldplay as their most streamed band in the entire world. The band have amassed over 5 billion streams on the service – 1 billion of which are for their most recent album ‘A Head Full of Dreams’.

Spotify has named Coldplay as their "most streamed band” worldwide.  The band have amassed over 5 billion streams on the service, one billion of which are for their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams.   

UMPG songwriter Sebastian Kole’s original song “Incredible” was chosen by Target as the soundtrack to their new back-to-school ad campaign. UMPG worked in collaboration with advertising agency Deutsch to pitch writers and demos for the opportunity, which ultimately went to Kole.

Grammy-winning artist and UMPG songwriter Britney Spears has announced she will be releasing her new album Glory on August 26 via RCA. Spears, who has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and become one of the most successful artists of all time, calls the album “the beginning of a new era.” It’s her first new album since 2013’s Britney Jean. Her new single “Make Me…” (released July 15) is fast climbing charts worldwide.