Universal Music TV
Joint venture compilations include Clubland, the Kiss Presents series, Kerrang!, MTV Unplugged, Floorfillers, Steve Wright Sunday Love Songs, Virgin Radio, Dreamboats & Petticoats, Capital Gold and the Motown albums.In the past UMTV has also run catalogue campaigns including The Shadows, Status Quo, Tony Christie, Barry White, Sam Cooke and Engelbert Humperdinck.A small number of individual artists were signed or transferred to this label in the early 2000s, including Malachi Cush, Alistair Griffin and Sam and Mark, though their contracts were terminated when UMTV re-focused on compilations.In 2016, UMTV relaunched as "Universal Music on Demand",[5] with specialised projects, in the first few years of UMOD, including the launch of the British version of Kidz Bop (Kidz Bop Kids),[6] Pete Tong[7] and Jules Buckley's albums of orchestral reworkings of classic dance tracks,[8] and Tommy Blaize's debut album Life & Soul.[20] UMR is also the division overseeing the back catalogue of acts like ABBA, Elton John and Queen.