Townsend Music has hired Paul Barton as acquisitions manager, as the company’s recent expansion continues.
With experience across labels, publishing and D2C, Barton brings Supergrass under Townsend’s umbrella ahead of ...
The recorded music industry is weathering the storm of Covid-19. But there have still been dips in revenue as a result of lost physical sales for the majors.
But ...
As exclusively revealed in the new edition of Music Week, Townsend Music has hired former Transistor Music and PledgeMusic digital manager Paul ‘Barney’ Barnes as their head of digital.
An ...
Townsend Music has appointed its first head of digital as the D2C company targets a million customers and rolls out its new fan-funding platform.
Paul “Barney” Barnes, a former co-founder ...
Polydor is celebrating a good run at the albums chart summit in 2020 – seven charting-toppers so far this year, more than any other label.
Following No.1 albums with Eminem, ...
The physical music market has rebounded with the return of music retail. But during lockdown, D2C was also a big part of the physical business.
Townsend Music have been D2C ...
Universal Music Group has issued strong Q1 figures, though they only tell part of the story of the Covid-19 impact which took hold this month in many parts of ...
When 5 Seconds Of Summer started the chart week ahead of Dua Lipa, it was perhaps assumed that Warner Records’ pop sensation would catch up.
But despite strong streaming ...
Fiction Records MD Jim Chancellor has told Music Week how the label turned the delay on Tame Impala’s comeback to its advantage.
The Australian psych-rock band, led by Kevin Parker, ...
Troubled DC2 platform PledgeMusic has gone offline amid uncertainty surrounding money still owed to artists.
It also means that acts using the platform will no longer be able to access ...
