{"id":242348,"date":"2025-10-16T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=242348"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:06:24","slug":"what-indie-distribution-bosses-really-think-about-umgs-proposed-acquisition-of-downtown-and-fuga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/what-indie-distribution-bosses-really-think-about-umgs-proposed-acquisition-of-downtown-and-fuga\/","title":{"rendered":"What indie distribution bosses really think about UMG&#8217;s proposed acquisition of Downtown and FUGA"},"content":{"rendered":"MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from\u00a0Music Business Worldwide\u00a0written in respons<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBW polls opinion from an array of founders leading some of the world&#8217;s top independent distribution and music delivery platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":242619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[130318],"class_list":["post-242348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-news","tag-mbw-reacts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242348"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242792,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242348\/revisions\/242792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}