{"id":229990,"date":"2025-05-01T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=229990"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:05:31","slug":"the-eu-is-investigating-umgs-775m-downtown-buyout-but-why-and-what-happens-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/the-eu-is-investigating-umgs-775m-downtown-buyout-but-why-and-what-happens-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU is investigating UMG&#8217;s $775m Downtown buyout &#8211; but why, and what happens now?"},"content":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group's Virgin Music Group revealed\u00a0in December that it had agreed to buy\u00a0Downtown<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>MBW explains Article 22, and how the investigation process works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":230551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[130580],"class_list":["post-229990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-news","tag-mbw-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229990","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}