By Bill Donahue A federal judge has refused Universal Music Group’s request for an injunction that would have immediately blocked artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC from using ...

Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the ...

Things between Drake and UMG are heating up. Today (March 17), UMG clapped back at the “Gimme A Hug” rapper’s defamation lawsuit with a filing of its own–a dismissal motion. In court ...

Basically, here’s the gist: UMG wants to delay litigation, probably presuming that the longer this thing takes to go to court, the more likely it’ll be that cooler heads will prevail (read ...

By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer Universal Music Group (UMG) chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge released his annual New Year’s memo to staff on Monday (Feb. 3), about a month later than usual owing to ...

In a post on X on February 28, 2025, Akademiks wrote, “The reason why $$$4U by Drake and Partynextdoor received no radio play so far is because of Drake’s issues at UMG.” He explained that ...