---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-062816"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WMG"
cik: "0001319161"
company_name: "Warner Music Group Corp."
filed_at: "2024-03-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T00:24:55.916876+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Warner Music Group stockholders elect all 11 directors, ratify KPMG, approve executive compensation

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; Robert Kyncl received 7.64B votes for, 1.83M against, 299K abstain.
- Ratification of KPMG as independent auditor for FY2024 passed with 7.66B for, 22,555 against.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 7.62B for, 23.6M against, 4.06M abstain.
- Broker non-votes were 16.4M for director elections and say-on-pay; none for auditor ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-062816
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WMG
- cik: 0001319161
- company_name: Warner Music Group Corp.
- filed_at: 2024-03-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000119312524062816/0001193125-24-062816-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000119312524062816/d748382d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Warner Music Group Corp. shareholders approved Approval of the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers at the 2024-03-05 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-05
  source text: Proposal 3: The Company’s stockholders voted to approve the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000119312524062816/0001193125-24-062816-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Warner Music Group Corp. shareholders approved Election of eleven director nominees named in the 2024 Proxy Statement to serve for a one-year term ending at the 2025 Annual Meeting at the 2024-03-05 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-05
  source text: Proposal 1 : The Company’s stockholders elected the eleven director nominees named in the Company’s 2024 Proxy Statement to serve for a one-year term ending at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000119312524062816/0001193125-24-062816-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Warner Music Group Corp. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of KPMG LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2024 at the 2024-03-05 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-05
  source text: Proposal 2: The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1319161/000119312524062816/0001193125-24-062816-index.htm

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