When the BBC launched its new music show Sounds Like Friday Night, there were high hopes for the first regular primetime music programme since Top Of The Pops finished ...
Townsend Music’s Bruce McKenzie has praised album/ticket bundles for helping to entice customers who wouldn’t otherwise buy LPs.
The firm’s clients include Stormzy and Don Broco, and it recently rolled ...
The popularity of ticket/album bundles is continuing to rise, with their impact increasingly evident on the UK chart.
In a major retail development, recent album incentive presales for Sam Smith ...
Capitol Records UK GM Murray Rose has told Music Week the label has ambitions to go “beyond” the multi-million sales of Sam Smith’s debut album with No.1 follow-up The Thrill ...
I’m sorry, the old Taylor Swift can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ‘cause she’s not doing any interviews…
These are interesting times for the old school promotional ...
Eight weeks after its introductory single Too Good At Goodbyes debuted atop the chart for Sam Smith, his second album, The Thrill Of It All, does likewise.
With a first ...
Radio’s not dead.
You knew that, of course. But one of the stranger by-products of the streaming revolution has been digital services’ implication that they’re doing the same job as ...
The UK’s “special relationship” with the US is by no means limited to politics - a growing number of British live music booking agencies are getting into bed with their ...
MTV has vowed to celebrate UK talent “reverberating around the world” as it prepares to bring its Europe Music Awards back to London for the first time in 21 years. ...
With just eight sales between the first week tallies of their last albums, it always looked as though there would be little to choose between Stereophonics' new album Scream Above ...
