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25/05/2023

Delighted to have been named Publisher of the Year at the 2023 Music Week Awards ✨

"Our mission at UMPG has always been very simple. Sign what we believe is the best of the best talent in the UK and stick with it, that won't change”
Mike McCormack / UMPG UK Managing Director

A huge thank you to , our brilliant UMPG UK team, and all of our incredible songwriters ❤️

18/05/2023

“A song for me is a living, breathing organism. Every time we perform it we breathe life into it.”
Sting

Congratulations to on receiving the Academy Fellowship at The Ivors 2023 🧡

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18/05/2023

Congratulations to & on their 2023 Ivor Novello Award 🧡

✨PRS for Music Most Performed Work (‘As It Was’)

“What an honour it is to represent songwriters”
Jody Gerson & Mike McCormack (who collected the award on behalf of Harry Styles & Kid Harpoon)

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18/05/2023

Congratulations to John Powell for his 2023 Ivor Novello Award 🧡

✨ Best Original Film Score (Don’t Worry Darling)

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18/05/2023

“We are very proud and honoured to represent [Florence Welch] at UMPG”
Jody Gerson & Mike McCormack

Congratulations to for her 2023 Ivor Novello Award 🧡

✨ Best Song Musically and Lyrically (‘King’)

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18/05/2023

Rising Star Award with Amazon Music nominee .dunn & Head of A&R, UK arrive at The Ivors 2023 ✨

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18/05/2023

UMPG boss Jody Gerson is in a good place. This is not only because her publishing company is performing strongly—revenue grew more than 13% in Q1—or because she’s earning well-deserved laurels like the ICMP Ralph Peer II Award for her “outstanding contribution to global music publishing,” which will be bestowed upon her in London in July; it’s also because, by her own reckoning, she’s in a groove as a leader and enjoying the hell out of her job.  In 2015, she made history, becoming the first female chairman of a global music company and the first woman CEO of a major publisher. Her starry roster includes Elton John, Taylor Swift, Adele, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, The Weeknd, ROSALÍA, Steve Lacy, Billie Eilish and countless other top artists and hit songsmiths. She also spearheaded the company’s acquisitions of the Bob Dylan, Sting and Neil Diamond catalogs, to name but a few.  She has been a tireless champion of women in the industry, having co-founded the nonprofit She Is The Music, and serves on the boards of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the National Music Publishers Association and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, among others.

Read part one of this two part article 🔗⟶ in bio

10/05/2023

✨NEW SIGNING✨We are excited to announce that Universal Music Publishing Group have signed chart-topping Scottish production duo LF SYSTEM to an exclusive, global publishing deal.

Comprised of Conor Larkman and Sean Finnigan, have made huge waves on the international dance scene. Most recently, their hit song ‘Afraid to Feel’ topped the UK Singles Chart spending eight consecutive weeks at #1. With nearly 183 million Spotify streams and millions of TikTok plays, the song saw them nominated for Song of the Year at the 2023 BRIT Awards.

Dougie Bruce, Senior A&R Director, UMPG said:

“Right from the start of our relationship we had a real connection together and the ambition of LF System and Fergus was clear to see. ‘Afraid to Feel’ was such a monumental hit but the boys were very clear that one song was not going to define them, but the forthcoming years of releases will. We were so delighted they decided to join UMPG and we look forward to a long and lasting friendship.”

LF System said:

"We're so excited to work with the legends at UMPG. The synergy we had with Dougie and Pete from the get-go was so strong and their level of belief & ambition towards us - and where we want to take this project - was unmatched. We can't wait to get going!"

18/04/2023

Congratulations to all our nominees for their 2023 Ivor Novello nominations 🧡

The 68th presentation of the awards will take place on 18th May at Grosvenor House, London

17/04/2023

Welcoming the brilliant to the UMPG family 🧡

Having supported Lewis Capaldi earlier this year, keep your eyes and ears peeled for big things from Elle 👀

“Out of all the exciting things that have happened over the last few months this has been by far the craziest. Feeling incredibly grateful to have such an amazing team at UMPG for believing in me and my songs.” – Elle Coves

15/03/2023

This , we wanted to spotlight some of the brilliant women who work for UMPG. Meet our A&R Creative Manager ❤️

“I feel extremely lucky to have been at UMPG when we signed artists such as Adele and Florence. I have worked very closely, for many years, with the super talented Eg White who co-wrote the most heartfelt and beautiful songs with Adele such as ‘Chasing Pavements’ and ‘Melt My Heart To Stone’.

I truly believe we should be embracing a fully inclusive world which incorporates our everyday lives. Everyone should be given the support and tools they need to be the best they can be, in the most natural and authentic way possible.”

(Claire Walters)

14/02/2023

Listen to Irving Berlin’s most romantic songs on ❤️

Featuring ‘I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm’, ‘How Deep Is The Ocean’, ‘Cheek To Cheek’ and many more, tap the link in bio to listen to the Irving Berlin ‘Love Songs Playlist’ 🌹

11/02/2023

takes home ✨ Best Pop/R&B Act ✨ at this years

10/02/2023

hits the #1 spot on the UK Album Charts today with her sixth studio album: Queen of Me ✨

With co-writes from UMPG’s & ♥️

10/02/2023

Huge congratulations to , who will be awarded Songwriter of the Year at tomorrow’s 👏

With recent co-writes/co-production on Grammy-winning album: Harry’s House, Kid Harpoon said:

“To be acknowledged by the BRITS this year for songwriting - a beautiful and complex craft - is unbelievable. It’s a dream come true to create for a living.”

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📸 Anthony Pham

06/02/2023

.mcferrin collected his Lifetime Achievement Award this weekend

The ten-time Grammy Award winner, who blurred the distinction between pop music and fine art, was awarded the achievement at the Wilshere Ebell Theatre in California on Saturday

From his trailblazing solo a ca****la performances to his iconic #1 hit ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’, McFerrin redefined the role of the human voice with his experiments in multi-tracking, choir improvisation and legendary solo performances

📸 Recording Academy

06/02/2023

UMPG songwriter is named Songwriter of the Year (Non-Classical), in a newly added category, at the 65th Annual GRAMMY awards 🤩

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We’re still processing #Coldplay’s beautiful video for ‘ALL MY LOVE’, featuring the legendary #DickVanDyke 🥹✨

This month 45 years ago #TheClash released their third studio album #LondonCalling The 1979 album included the tracks ‘Lost in the Supermarket’, ‘The Guns of Brixton’, ‘Train in Vain (Stand by Me)’, and of course, ‘London Calling’

“★★★★★” – The Guardian #ACompleteUnknown, the #BobDylan biopic starring #TimothéeChalamet, is out now in cinemas across the U.S. ✨ 👉 Available in the UK from January 17

#TheClash have been announced to receive a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at next year’s #GRAMMYs ✨ The #RecordingAcademy will be celebrating them during GRAMMYs week, on Feb 1 2025 ❤️

We caught up with #LaurenMayberry at #RoughTradeEast in London to chat about the writing process for her album #ViciousCreature, where she gets her inspiration, and the advice she once received from Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart ✨ 👉 Lauren’s debut solo album Vicious Creature is out now

Follow Sir Elton John on his final US shows in a candid and riveting documentary by R.J. Cutler and David Furnish 🎞 Stream Elton John: Never Too Late on Disney+ now ✨

This year marks 70 years of Irving Berlin’s classic festive-film White Christmas, and to mark the anniversary UMPG were joined by one of Irving Berlin’s granddaughters, Emily Fletcher, to discuss her grandfather’s career, and her memories of the film’s iconic title song ❤️🎄 #IrvingBerlin #WhiteChristmas

“It is by far the most complicated song that I have ever been involved in writing and performing. The beauty of it is that it sounds really simple.” Shane MacGowan, The Guardian, 2012 Listen to ‘Fairytale of New York’ and many more songs written by #ShaneMacGowan on ‘The Pogues and Shane MacGowan Classic Cuts’ playlist, link in bio ❤️

#EltonJohn performs ‘Your Song’, co-written by #BernieTaupin, at The Wonderful World Of Disney: Holiday Spectacular 2024, available now on Disney+ ✨🫶

WRAPPED ✅💙 👉 Taylor Swift - No.1, Top 10 Artists Globally 👉 Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ - No.1, Top 10 Songs Globally 👉 Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology - No.1, Top 10 Albums Globally (with co-writes from Post Malone, Jack Antonoff, Florence Welch) + UMPG locks in the top 5 spots for the Most Streamed Artists Globally 😮‍💨

Christmas Ads 2024 feat. UMPG UK 🎄 ✨M&S✨ Elton John’s ‘Step Into Christmas’, co-written by Bernie Taupin Music Supervisor: @theodore_music_co / @wakethetownmusic Pitched by UMPG’s: George O’Brien ✨Boots✨ Eve’s ‘Who’s That Girl?’ Music Supervisor: @massivemusic Pitched by UMPG’s: Dinah Falade ✨KFC✨ ‘Nessun Dorma’, written by Puccini Music Supervisor: @thehoganlondon ✨John Lewis✨ Richard Ashcroft’s ‘Sonnet’ Music Supervisor: @wakethetownmusic ✨The Entertainer✨ ‘It Must Have Been Love’, written by Per Gessle Music Supervisor: @leland__co ✨JD Sports✨ Jamie xx’s ‘Wanna’ Music Supervisor: @thehoganlondon ✨Coca-Cola✨ ‘I Could Be Santa Claus’, written by Jules Bass, Maury Laws ✨John Lewis✨ ‘Make You Feel My Love’, written by Bob Dylan Music Supervisor: @theodore_music_co / @wakethetownmusic Shoutout to UMPG’s Suzanne Carey for her brilliant licencing work on all of these, and the rest of our #Sync team for all their assistance. #UMPG #ChristmasAds #Christmas2024 #Sync

#Robyns iconic 2010 track ‘Dancing On My Own’ got its #BRAT moment at @theo2london last week 💚✅ @robynkonichiwa

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