Music fans being “forced into certain directions” by direct-to-consumer marketing has been identified as one of the main threats facing the physical retail sector.
In the new issue of Music ...
There are some new quartermasters in town. Polydor Records gatecrashed the top of the market share charts in Q3, as it dominated the albums chart.
Polydor was a regular market ...
The debate about whether National Album Day can actually boost album sales goes on ahead of tomorrow’s main event. But new research from Kantar Worldpanel shows that the beleaguered format ...
For some of us, of course, every day is National Album Day. But the new event on the music industry calendar, which takes place tomorrow (October 13), will have ...
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, ...
Well, that didn’t last long.
Two weeks after Wolf Alice’s Visions Of A Life (Dirty Hit) was the surprise winner of the Hyundai Mercury Prize, and one week after ...
Like the wait at the till on a Saturday morning, it’s been a long time coming. But, as exclusively revealed in this week’s Music Week, changes to music retail ...
Everyone knows that the number one music streaming service in Great Britain is Spotify, but who’s number two?
Most people would probably answer Apple Music, but the latest entertainment market ...
This year’s Hyundai Mercury Prize shortlist is a curious one artistically, full of good, proper albums by well-established artists, but - unlike last year's debut-heavy list - low on exciting ...
Who saved the music industry? As the business returns solidly to growth – with the Q2 figures showing UK Album Equivalent Sales up a useful 7.8% – record labels are ...
