{"id":2452762,"date":"2026-06-10T13:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2452762"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:01:21","slug":"umg-prices-e1bn-bond-offering-as-boss-makes-latest-ai-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/umg-prices-e1bn-bond-offering-as-boss-makes-latest-ai-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"UMG prices \u20ac1bn bond offering as boss makes latest AI comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-271343\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the dust settles from its rejection of an acquisition offer by hedge-fund Pershing Square, Universal Music Group has taken its next financial step forward.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tools.eurolandir.com\/tools\/Pressreleases\/GetPressRelease\/?ID=8071179&amp;lang=en-GB&amp;companycode=us-umg&amp;v=dark\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It has priced \u20ac1bn of new \u2018Eurobond Notes\u2019<\/a>\u00a0that will be sold to investors outside the US to raise money for \u201cgeneral corporate purposes, including the refinancing of existing indebtedness and paying transaction fees and expenses\u201d.\n\n\n<aside>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This follows reports earlier this week that UMG was considering such a move, against a backdrop of a \u20ac1bn bridge loan taken out earlier this year,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/universal-music-confirms-e1-billion-bond-sale\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which was due to be repaid in July<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other UMG news, its boss Sir Lucian Grainge has delivered his latest comments on AI and music, during a ceremony to accept Northeastern University\u2019s \u2018Global Entrepreneur\u2019 award.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think AI is a brilliant stress tester for people\u2019s imagination and people\u2019s creativity. If you\u2019re a writer and you just can\u2019t finish a song \u2013 you can\u2019t get that middle eight, you can\u2019t get the chorus, the lyrics don\u2019t work \u2013 I think that technology can help you accelerate being the best of yourself on your best day,\u201d said Grainge, in comments shared by UMG.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that responsible AI, using the technology for artistic brilliance, in the same way that sampling, when that came in, made an enormous difference to the creative process. You wouldn\u2019t have acts like Soft Cell or Human League\u00a0or Depeche Mode\u00a0without that sampling technology, for instance.\u201d\n\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section><\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dust settles from its rejection of an acquisition offer by hedge-fund Pershing Square, Universal Music Group has taken its next financial step forward. It has priced \u20ac1bn of new \u2018Eurobond Notes\u2019\u00a0that will be sold to investors outside the US to raise money for \u201cgeneral corporate purposes, including the refinancing of existing indebtedness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2452763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[344480,344778,46171],"class_list":["post-2452762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-lucian-grainge","tag-universal-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/UMG-prices-E1bn-bond-offering-as-boss-makes-latest-AI.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452764,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452762\/revisions\/2452764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}