{"id":71035,"date":"2026-04-07T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/universal-music-home-to-taylor-swift-and-drake-receives-e55bn-takeover-offer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:57:16","slug":"universal-music-home-to-taylor-swift-and-drake-receives-e55bn-takeover-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/universal-music-home-to-taylor-swift-and-drake-receives-e55bn-takeover-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music, home to Taylor Swift and Drake, receives \u20ac55bn takeover offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman\u2019s Pershing Square claims world\u2019s biggest music company has suffered due to delay of US listing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/07\/oil-price-rises-trump-deadline-iran-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-imf-business-live-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Billionaire Bill Ackman\u2019s hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world\u2019s biggest music company at around \u20ac55bn (\u00a348bn)..<\/p>\n<p>Pershing Square, the New-York based hedge fund, has offered to buy the business, which is home to artists including Taylor Swift and Elton John, in a cash and stock deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/07\/universal-music-group-takeover-offer-bill-ackman-pershing-square\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman\u2019s Pershing Square claims world\u2019s biggest music company has suffered due to delay of US listing Business live \u2013 latest updates Billionaire Bill Ackman\u2019s hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world\u2019s biggest music company at around \u20ac55bn (\u00a348bn).. Pershing Square, the New-York based hedge &#8230; <a title=\"Universal Music, home to Taylor Swift and Drake, receives \u20ac55bn takeover offer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/universal-music-home-to-taylor-swift-and-drake-receives-e55bn-takeover-offer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Universal Music, home to Taylor Swift and Drake, receives \u20ac55bn takeover offer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}