As depicted in John Niven’s bloodthirsty music industry novel Kill Your Friends, the British music industry of the 1990s was packed full of characters, controversy and no little chaos (albeit ...
Winning a Music Week Award for Sales Team is just one of the highlights of Derek Allen’s career. Here, Warner Music’s top sales exec looks back at his role ...
I write this shortly before I head off to Nashville for a few days. The home of country music is perhaps the ultimate example of how a local scene can ...
Music business trend watchers will no doubt have noticed that the ‘90s seem to be undergoing something of a revival at the moment.
The Spice Girls are back filling stadiums ...
In the ’90s, Phill Savidge was one half of Savage & Best, the publicity company behind Suede, Elastica and Pulp, and one of the prime instigators of Britpop. ...
Since Kanya King founded the MOBO Awards in 1996, British urban music has moved firmly into the mainstream – and King has gone from ‘outsider’ to industry stalwart. Ahead ...
1. CODIFYING THE GENERATION GAP
Prior to the launch of Radio 1 and Radio 2, pretty much all pop music fell on one side or the other of the generation ...
Kanya King could be forgiven for rolling her eyes when 2016 is talked about as “the year of grime”.
Grime is a genre that has been celebrated and rewarded at ...
Some of the young folk in the Music Week office went to see Supersonic, the new Oasis documentary, this week.
For those of us who lived and worked through the ...
Some 20 years after the release of debut single Wannabe, the Spice Girls – or at least three of them - are back. So, to mark the occasion, we’ve trawled ...
