The 63rd edition of the Ivor Novello Awards has been staged in London with a line-up of big winners and star guests. Here’s Music Week’s round-up of the most memorable ...
Paloma Faith, Only Love Can Hurt Like This (2014)UK chart peak: No.6OCC sales: 870,079Paloma Faith may have taken a lot of convincing to record this ...
When John Lennon and Paul McCartney would sit down to write a hit song, they’d motivate each other by saying: “Let’s write a swimming pool”. Diane Warren can go one ...
Last year, Music Week reported that you need an average of 4.53 people to write the very biggest hits. To make the year-end Top 30, you needed to employ an ...
In a hat tip to this year's Ivor Novello Awards, the new edition of Music Week is devoted to the world of songwriting.
Our cover story pairs two emerging talents making ...
The MUSEXPO conference has wrapped for another year, after four days of heated debate. The weather was disappointing, but the insight from top execs was not, so here, Music Week ...
The MUSEXPO conference in Los Angeles got off to a flying start on Sunday (April 29), with talk of hitmaking and artist development dominating the panels.
The day kicked off ...
1. SONIC UPRISING
MUSEXPO’s Monday morning Global Keynote panel, The State Of The Sonic Union, has become a conference tradition, where heavyweight execs swap insights into the international music biz ...
Remember Me from the Disney-Pixar film Coco has won for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards.It was the second Oscar win for songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, ...
Notting Hill Music has Oscar hopes this weekend for its nominated songwriter Taura Stinson.
The publisher worked with Stinson for two decades before she earned the Best Original Song nomination ...