About
The royalty platform music runs on.
For decades, UMG has been at the heart of the global music industry — connecting creators with audiences, and audiences with the artists they love. Today, our royalty distribution infrastructure powers the careers of hundreds of thousands of artists in every genre, in every territory.
Our mission
We exist for one reason: to make sure that every time a song is played, streamed, broadcast, performed, or licensed, the people who created it get paid — fairly, transparently, and on time.
The modern music economy generates billions of micro-events per day across hundreds of platforms and territories. Without world-class infrastructure, royalties get lost in the noise. UMG is the infrastructure.
Our principles
What we stand for.
Transparency
Every cent of royalty is accounted for, and every line item is auditable. Black-box accounting has no place in modern music.
Speed
Monthly payouts, not quarterly. Direct deposits, not paper checks. Royalties move at the speed of streaming.
Fairness
Splits are honored exactly as agreed. Producers, featured artists, and songwriters all get paid — automatically.
Reach
If your music plays anywhere on Earth, we collect on it. From Spotify in São Paulo to a café in Seoul.
Stewardship
We treat catalogs — both new and legacy — like the cultural assets they are. Metadata gets fixed. Rights get registered. Money gets recovered.
Partnership
Artists own their masters. Publishers own their compositions. We're infrastructure, not gatekeepers.
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California.
Our global headquarters sits one block from the Pacific, where the music industry meets the open ocean. From here, we coordinate royalty operations across six continents.
Santa Monica, California 90404
USA
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