Sir Lucian Grainge talks AI strategy, Downtown, D2C, superfans, and more on UMG’s latest earnings call

Lucian is the hostess with the mostess and AI is the superfan future we never knew we wanted

Anyone who is a keen devotee of the music business’s sultan of sync, the big dog of catchy pop and top banana of the twelve inch, better known as Lucian Grainge, will have been more than a little worried recently. On Universal Music earnings calls over the past few quarters, Papa Grainge has seemed flat, fractious, tetchy and frankly out of sorts.The trademark pizazz was missing, his garrulous zing and zest gone entirely. Analysts, whispering am…

Sir Lucian Grainge talks AI strategy, Downtown, D2C, superfans, and more on UMG’s latest earnings call

MBW listened in to UMG's latest earnings call. Here's what we learned. Source