1. STREAMING IS NOW A GLOBAL PHENOMENONThe global value of streaming grew a massive 60.4% in 2016 as new services launched and the world caught on to the new ...
1. HE INVENTED ROCK’N’ROLL
That’s not ‘influenced’, not ‘shaped’, not ‘gave a bit of a boost to’. Invented. Ike Turner, Bo Diddley and others may have been there or thereabouts, ...
Time, or rather the experience of it, has all but come undone for Maren Morris. Just one year ago, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter was following her showcase set at Country 2 ...
The music industry has changed an awful lot since Amy Macdonald last released an album. The streaming boom has altered the consumption landscape beyond all recognition, while the traditional album ...
At the turn of the millennium, the IFPI reported that CDs accounted for 76% of albums sold globally. Since then, the adoption of digital technology relating to both streaming and ...
Organisers of British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park are confident of selling out all six 65,000-capacity shows this summer, with ticket sales already at a record level.
Last week saw ...
British rock icon Pete Townshend has spoken exclusively to Music Week about his plans to re-release his solo back catalogue, new material and why he is “optimistic” about the possibility ...
With the recently huge number of new releases drying up as Christmas approaches, hip-hop star J Cole - who has previously only had a No.1 in his US homeland - ...
Peter Rudge blitzed into the music business in the summer of 1968, after effing and blinding at Kit Lambert, founder of Track Records and co-manager of The Who.
On the ...
On May 30 last year, Calum Scott sang Rihanna’s Diamonds in the final of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. After forgetting the words, he recovered to complete the song well, but ...
