With this record, I knew from the minute we finished touring that I needed to start working and having ideas,” says Adam Granduciel.
“I need to have a place where ...
Right now, the UK rap scene is hotter than it's been in years, with new artists emerging from all corners of the country. Streaming has opened even up and coming ...
Sony/ATV head of A&R David Ventura has praised singer/songwriter Zak Abel as a “special talent” after signing the rising star to a worldwide publishing deal.
Londoner Abel, who came to ...
BBC Music and Radio director Bob Shennan has described BBC One’s new live, primetime music and entertainment series as “a chance to really make a statement”.
Shennan and Gabe Turner, ...
1. ED SHEERAN IS QUITE POPULAROK, you probably didn’t need Music Week’s analysis to work that out. But the sheer scale of Sheeran’s ubiquity is laid bare by ...
Market SharesUniversal has been unusually squeezed in the market shares in the last few quarters, but in Q2, David Hawkes declares the market-leading major to be “back in business”. ...
Three days before the General Election, Matt Maltese is hanging around in an east London pub, killing time before the last show of his First Past The Post Tour with ...
Four years after dropping their self-titled fourth album in 2013, US pop rock outfit Paramore today unleash their fifth record After Laughter. And according to Atlantic Records UK general manager ...
1. A&R IS CHANGINGMaybe it’s the streaming effect, maybe it’s the industry finally getting to grips with differing economics, maybe it’s the complete and utter lack of breakthrough acts ...