{"id":252868,"date":"2026-03-16T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=252868"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:00:53","slug":"why-the-umg-downtown-deal-may-be-the-last-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/why-the-umg-downtown-deal-may-be-the-last-of-its-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the UMG\/Downtown deal may be the last of its kind"},"content":{"rendered":"MBW Views is a series of op\/eds from eminent music industry people\u2026 with something to say.\u00a0The fo<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>The following op\/ed comes from Simon Wills, MD of UK-headquartered\u00a0Absolute Label Services\u00a0and lead on the new Anthology music OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130621,3536],"class_list":["post-252868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-views","tag-simon-wills"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252868","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253173,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252868\/revisions\/253173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}