Sony/ATV UK managing director Guy Moot has told Music Week the music industry is signing “too many well-intentioned album acts that our consumer doesn’t want”.
Moot, also president of European creative and the subject of the Big Interview in the new edition of Music Week, was discussing the lack of new artist breakthroughs this year. He continued: “I’ve got to be honest, there’s a lot of average stuff, we all go through those new music playlists and it’s an easy skip. What used to be a curiosity buy is now a 10-second skip.”
“You can complain about that, that’s the world, everything is moving faster - people don’t have the time to listen to albums. It’s amazing how much album product is being pushed out into the market and you have to ask yourself if that actually makes it a lot harder to find the good stuff. The industry is very out of kilter with what its consumer is wanting,” he said.
The executive (pictured above with Tinie Tempah, left and Dumi Oburota, right) also warned that the industry is competing with nostalgia and music from the past. “If you’re trying to sell an artist or an album you’ve got to have culture,” he said. “Having a hit song’s great, and we’re in the hit songs business, but I don’t think it’s as long-lasting or leaving any legacy. The UK had a lot of culture, but now it’s so quickly discovered that it’s not developing in the same way.”
Moot countered that “grime is the nearest thing to it, which is fantastic.”
Read the full interview here or in the latest issue of Music Week, out now.
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