For years now, music retail has pleaded with the music industry not to stack all its big releases at the end of the year, and let a few big records ...
I can see why the recent domination of the singles chart by album tracks from the likes of Stormzy and Ed Sheeran is potentially bad news for anyone trying to ...
The debate about how to break an artist in 2017 continues, but there’s also a discussion to be had about how you can actually tell one has broken.
Even in ...
At this year’s excellent BRIT Awards last Wednesday, it was clear that a storm was coming. And I’m not talking about the following day’s Hurricane Doris.
Because, while the award ...
Who do you think is the UK’s leading music tastemaker?
Steve Lamacq? Annie Mac? Jools Holland? NME? MistaJam? George Ergatoudis? Graham Norton? Sorry, but no. In terms of global reach ...
I bring you news from the future: the streaming revolution that has turned 2016’s music business upside down may just be getting started.
I say this, because I spent the ...
I write this early on the morning after the Music Week Sync Awards. Maybe it’s the hangover, maybe it’s the flood of joyful tweets from last night’s winners or maybe ...
It’s not often your correspondent gets to feel like Brad Pitt but, on Wednesday morning, both he and I awoke for the first time with a big, gaping void where ...
“Where there’s a hit, there’s a writ” is one of the music business’ oldest adages, right up there with “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” and “Never give Robin ...
