The year 2016 proved to be a breakthrough for BMG’s fast-growing recordings business with a platinum-seller from Rick Astley and a No.1 album from Blink-182.
This year we’ve turned things ...
Sampha has been awarded the Hyundai Mercury Prize tonight (September 14) for the album Process at the award ceremony in London.The debut album, released via Young Turks/XL, has total ...
Ahead of tonight’s (September 14) Mercury Prize award, Music Week has spoken to labels, managers and artists involved in four previous winning albums. Here they give their insight on how ...
Alt-rock boffins Alt-J are up for the 2017 prize. But five years ago they were unlikely winners, says manager Stephen Taverner…
We put the record out in June originally and ...
The Hyundai Mercury Prize winner won’t be announced until Thursday evening – but Music Week analysis of sales in the run-up to the event suggests the award has already given ...
Paul Rodgers has gone to the dentist.
That was the message from BBC HQ shortly before our afternoon encounter with the head of BBC Radio 6 Music was due to ...
Skepta has been added to the line-up for this year’s Hyundai Mercury Prize awards show.
The rapper, who won last year with his No.2, gold selling album Konnichiwa, will perform ...
Morrissey, Mogwai, Alt J, Loyle Carner and Robert Plant are set to play BBC Radio 6 Music’s Live at Maida Vale event for 2017.
Set to take place from Monday-Friday ...
It has been a busy year for BMG. For one, they have overseen a roster of A-list artists making big comebacks on both the recording and publishing side.
What’s more, ...
As Music Week’s recent study revealed, nowadays, it takes an average of 4.53 people to write the very biggest hits. No wonder competition in the publishing world is ...
