{"id":235806,"date":"2025-07-09T22:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=235806"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:06:49","slug":"downtown-debate-whats-universal-music-groups-actual-distribution-market-share-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/downtown-debate-whats-universal-music-groups-actual-distribution-market-share-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The question at the heart of Downtown debate: What&#8217;s Universal Music Group&#8217;s actual distribution market share in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"Arguments both for and against Universal Music Group's proposed $775 million acquisition of Downtown<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>A few of you have contacted me to ask if I got my numbers wrong. (Spoiler: No, I did not!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130318],"class_list":["post-235806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-reacts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235806","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235806"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235962,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235806\/revisions\/235962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}