{"id":254733,"date":"2026-04-07T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=254733"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:47:50","slug":"selling-a-3b-spotify-stake-michael-ovitz-as-chairman-of-the-board-and-a-100b-company-welcome-to-bill-ackmans-plan-for-universal-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/selling-a-3b-spotify-stake-michael-ovitz-as-chairman-of-the-board-and-a-100b-company-welcome-to-bill-ackmans-plan-for-universal-music-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling a $3B Spotify stake, Michael Ovitz as Chairman of the Board, and a $100B+ company: Welcome to Bill Ackman&#8217;s plan for Universal Music Group."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\nDavid Ellison\u00a0has his New Paramount. Now\u00a0Bill Ackman\u00a0wants his New<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 founder Tim Ingham on telling details within Pershing Square&#8217;s proposal for a new Universal Music Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130318],"class_list":["post-254733","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\/254733","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=254733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254740,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254733\/revisions\/254740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}