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unusual facts about Universal Music


Off the Hillbilly Hook

It was released on June 9, 2009 via Show Dog Nashville, now part of Show Dog-Universal Music.


2010 TVB monopoly case

TVB then banned singers from EMI Group, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music Group from participating on the 2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation show.

ABBAMAIL

Through its ability to focus comments from a large number of ABBA fans into one forum, ABBAMAIL impacted parts of ABBA's music production, such as PolyGram and Universal Music re-releasing CDs in a corrected form.

All the Roadrunning

The concert on 28 June 2006 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles was recorded and released as a live album and DVD, Real Live Roadrunning, on 14 November 2006 by Mercury Records and Universal Music internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

Are U Ready?

The music, which uses a sample from Groove Coverage's 2000 song, "Are U Ready", was remixed by Julien Ranouil (as for Pakito's previous single), Xavier Longuepée and David Toinet, and the single was published by Universal Music.

Brice Conrad

Brice Conrad (born in Pfulgriesheim, France 18 July 1985) is a French singer-songwriter and musician of pop rock and folk music and is signed to Universal Music France.

Cameron Michael Parkes

As a record producer, Parkes is best known for the 2004 release of the critically acclaimed "A Tribute To Brian Wilson" (Varèse Sarabande / Universal Music).

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection is a compilation album released by Universal Music in 1999.

Devraj Sanyal

Devraj Sanyal(Born Devraj Sugata Sanyal 21 March 1975) is Managing Director of Universal Music & EMI Music for

Dinata 1986–2007

Dinata 1986–2007 is a two disc greatest hits collection by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 2007 by Universal Music Greece.

Do You Do You Dig Destruction

The song was available from Djuice and Telenor in partnership with Universal Music and could be downloaded for free until the end of April.

JT Hodges

In mid-2011, Hodges signed to Show Dog-Universal Music and released his debut single, "Hunt You Down", which he co-wrote with Rivers Rutherford and Mark Collie.

Live apo to Gyalino Mousiko Theatro

Eleftheria Arvanitaki - Live apo to Gyalino Mousiko Theatro is a live album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 2002 by Universal Music Greece.

Loaded with Zoul

Loaded With Zoul is the debut album by the Estonian duo Malcolm Lincoln, released 20 May 2010 on Universal Music.

Locos Por Juana

La Verdad (The Truth) signified the group's major label debut, as they signed with an arm of Universal Music Latino, Machete Music, founded by Gustavo Lopez.

Paul Hollins

He has been heard on advertising campaigns for companies as diverse as Cadbury, Sony, TrafficMaster and Universal Music.

Pavlo Tabakov

According to the rules of Ukrainian show The Voice of the country, the winner of the show gets the possibility to sign a contract with the record label Universal music.

See All Her Faces

In 2002, Mercury Records/Universal Music UK released See All Her Faces in its entirety on CD for the first time, then also including three bonus tracks; two further recordings from the shelved Faithful album with Jeff Barry and also Springfield's interpretation of "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand for the 1969 film The Happy Ending.

Tim Chaisson

Prior to touring Australia, Broken Hearted Beat was released to Australia in October 2011 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was distributed by Universal Music.

Welcome to the Dance

Welcome to the Dance is the fifth regular studio album by all-female German pop group No Angels, released by Polydor and Universal Music Domestic throughout German-speaking Europe on September 11, 2009 (see 2009 in music).


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A Curious Thing

It was recorded live for Universal Music and SR1 in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Orchestra, conducted by Gast Waltzing.

Akhali Khma

She was awarded by the show's sponsor, Geocell, a trip to Los Angeles, California to record single at Universal Music Studio.

Beans and Fatback

The two CD compilation Wray's Three Track Shack (Acadia/Evangeline Recorded Works Ltd./Universal Music, 2005) includes Beans And Fatback alongside with other "shack" recordings of 1971 (Link Wray and Mordicai Jones), but the track "Take My Hand (Precious Lord)" was replaced without credit by "Backwoods Preacher Man" (a cover song of Tony Joe White) from The Link Wray Rumble album (Polydor, 1974).

Capitol Christian Music Group

Formerly known as EMI Christian Music Group, Capitol CMG is a division of Capitol Music Group, a Universal Music Group company.

Compo

Compo Company was a record company in Canada which evolved into Universal Music Canada

Deep Obsession

By 2003, Deep Obsession had parted company with both their founding producer and songwriting partner Christopher Banks, and record label Universal Music.

Diário

Diário is the fourth album by Portuguese fado singer Mafalda Arnauth, released in 2005 on Universal Music Portugal.

Gia Maione

While living in Island Heights, New Jersey in 2002, she filed suit against Universal Music Group claiming that proper royalties had not been paid.

Holland Road, London

Universal Music is the UK’s leading music company and is home to major artists from Queen to Mumford & Sons—who wrote a song entitled Holland Road— and The Rolling Stones.

Ji-Hae Park

Ji-Hae has a future performance scheduled with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in the Shanghai Concert Hall, and an upcoming CD recording with Universal Music Korea.

Mujeres

Then her label, Universal Music Latino decided to finish the album promotion with a third and final single "Don Juan" and release her first greatest hits album Voz y Éxitos (2012).

Music Through a Cheap Transistor

(Aside from the first John Peel Session, the band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Music Group; hence this release.)

Ruby Frost

Frost's debut album Volition was produced in New York by Chris Zane and was released in New Zealand on 8 June 2012 by Universal Music New Zealand.

Santa Rita de Sampa

Santa Rita de Sampa is an album released by Brazilian singer Rita Lee, on September 4, 1997 by Universal Music.

The Matthew Shepard Story

"American Triangle" - Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, performed by Elton John, published by WB Music Corp (Happenstance Limited and Wretched Music, courtesy of Universal Music)

Ugo Marotta

Aracy de Almeida - Samba é Aracy de Almeida (1966, Elenco/Universal Music) - Arranger, organ and piano

UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Augusto

Universal Music Group v. Augusto was a federal court case filed by Universal Music Group against Troy Augusto, a man who sold promotional CDs on eBay.

Virgin Veritas

The parent was formerly owned by Virgin Records's and was Virgin's classical label until acquisition by EMI, and then subsequent 2012 acquisition by Universal Music.

Walter Kolm

The success that it would bring the company made Kolm’s boss, Jesús López, take him to Universal in Spain (the label had merged with PolyGram to form Universal Music Group), as Managing Director of the Mercury subsidiary.