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Strong sales: Sabrina Carpenter
Universal Music shares rose yesterday after beating revenue expectations.
Strong sales from the record giant’s artists, such as Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, helped boost sales to £2.4 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 4.3 per cent compared to a year earlier.
The world’s largest music company saw its shares rise as much as 5 percent in Amsterdam following an investor update.
They finally closed up 1.7 percent.
Analysts expected revenue in the three months to the end of September to reach £2.3bn.
Universal was boosted by a 7.6 percent increase in subscription revenue.
The firm said price increases made by streaming platforms such as Spotify also drove revenue growth.
But physical media sales fell 2 percent during the quarter, as growth in vinyl sales failed to fully offset a drop in CD purchase figures.
Deutsche Bank analyst Silvia Cuneo said it had been a “solid quarter” for the record label.
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