UNIVERSAL GETS TAYLOR-MADE BOOST

The publisher finished at No. 1 on the Hot 100 ranking after 19 Swift songs charted in the second quarter

BY KRISTIN ROBINSON

UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP earned the top spot on the Hot 100 Songs publishers ranking for 2024’s second quarter with 27.97% of the market, in large part thanks to Taylor Swift and the 19 songs she landed on the chart. It didn’t hurt that her writing partner Jack Antonoff is also on UMPG’s roster. (He moved there from Sony Music Publishing in August 2023.) Swift’s work accounted for a little over one-third of the 56 songs the publisher had on the Hot 100 during the quarter, up significantly from its 43-song count in the first quarter of the year. Sony Music Publishing, which typically places first on the Hot 100 publishers ranking, finished a close second with a 27.13% market share and 57 tracks on the chart, including the No. 1…

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Billboard (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 24, 2024

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