Despite the uncertainty caused by HMV's well-publicised woes at the end of last year, vinyl sales grew in the UK in the first three months of 2019, as revealed ...
After a difficult start to 2019 for physical music, with problems at PledgeMusic and HMV in administration, there was finally some good news last week.
HMV was saved from ...
Who was the biggest singles artist in Q4? Ariana Grande? Post Malone? Drake?
Well, they all saw huge success, but no one had more songs in the quarter’s Top ...
ERA CEO Kim Bayley called it “the Christmas from hell”. And HMV blamed dismal December trading – albeit more in video than music – for it going into administration just ...
National Album Day certainly seems to be generating plenty of interest ahead of its debut event on Saturday (October 13) – not least because of Music Week’s special albums issue, ...
Only four UK debuts in Top 200 at halfway stage, as labels increasingly target singles breakthroughs for emerging artists
Record labels are grappling with the changing environment for breaking ...
Can one million Greatest Showman fans be wrong?
That’s the question being asked by some in the music industry, as the soundtrack passes the million mark and sparks a debate ...
After the last quarter’s slowdown in growth, music consumption surged again in Q2 as streaming took an ever-tighter grip on the market and The Greatest Showman just kept on selling ...
Q2 growth up on Q1, as BPI boss Geoff Taylor predicts advent of YouTube Music will increase subscription take-upBPI chief executive Geoff Taylor has told Music Week that intense ...
Q1 proved a trickier quarter for the biz than most of late, with plunging physical sales and the year-on-year Ed Sheeran effect slowing down the recent sales surge. Yet The ...
