UK recorded music consumption (AES) is up 9.5% so far in 2023.
Music Week’s analysis is based on exclusive market figures and sales data from the Official Charts Company ...
Central Cee’s mixtape Wild West is still a Top 20 fixture following its release last month.
The self-releasing artist secured the second biggest breakthrough for a UK debut album ...
Industry execs have welcomed the return of breakthroughs from British artists in 2021, including Celeste, Arlo Parks and Central Cee.
Debut album campaigns were largely put on hold in ...
In our exclusive online Q1 analysis, Music Week crunches the numbers on the quarter that marked the first year of the pandemic.
Here, commercial execs from Universal Music, Sony Music ...
Rapper and YouTuber KSI is celebrating a big result for his debut album.
As revealed in the latest issue of Music Week, Dissimulation (BMG) is officially the biggest breakthrough ...
Label executives have spoken about the challenges in securing artist breakthroughs as sales figures revealed the absence of new debuts in the half-year Top 100 albums.
In many cases, debut ...
It’s getting tough out there for debut artists – Anne-Marie was the only act on a first album to finish in the Top 100 sellers in 2018.
In the latest ...
Labels are holding out for more artist breakthroughs in 2018 as Music Week analysis shows that just two debuts from UK artists finished in the Top 200 sellers for Q1. ...
We’re only a few weeks into 2018, and the music business is already feeling optimistic about growth in revenue and the increase in UK breakthrough artists.
We’ve been gauging ...
Syco senior A&R manager Guy Langley has told Music Week that Tokio Myers’ breakthrough success in the 2017 Top 100 albums underlines the fact that he’s a “true artist”. ...
