By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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Michael Buckner for Variety As has long been expected, Universal Music Group is being hit with extensive layoffs across its U.S. and U.K. operations, with multiple top executives departing, among many others.
The moves — which sources say continue a process that was announced back in January of 2024 as continuing through this year — are expected to take place across Wednesday and Thursday this week. They were preceded by around 200 layoffs at the company’s Canadian operation late last month, and 27-year UMG veteran Rebecca Allen’s announcement on Tuesday that she is stepping down as Chief Artist and Strategy Officer, a post to which she was only promoted in December.
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