Membership of the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has more than doubled since Kim Bayley took charge two decades ago this month. Here, she celebrates triumphs such as Record Store Day ...
As 2020 drags on and the music business continues to come to terms with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the industry is regularly reminded of all that it’s ...
Music was the fastest-growing sector in entertainment retail in the first half of 2019, according to the latest figures released by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).
While games accounted for ...
Paid-for streaming is set to overtake free for the first time in 2019, according to new research from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).
ERA’s figures show that 21.5% of people ...
The continued growth in streaming revenues – also underlined in the latest BPI figures for 2018 – helped the entertainment market to an all-time high of £7.537 billion in 2018. ...
In her 14 years as CEO, Kim Bayley has transformed the Entertainment Retailers Association from old school talking shop to a united promotional force. But she still wants her members, ...
In the new issue of Music Week we welcome Entertainment Retailers Association CEO Kim Bayley to the cover. Bayley tells us how she transformed ERA from old school talking shop to ...
Stormzy and Dua Lipa look set to be the big winners from the BRIT Awards as Warner Music executives told Music Week of an anticipated “significant” sales impact.
Although there ...
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor has hailed the UK music industry’s performance over the last 12 months as streaming reached the “tipping point” of more than half of total consumption. ...
The music business was pondering the implications of Taylor Swift’s streaming holdout, as the superstar’s Reputation album enjoyed huge global sales figures, despite not being available on any streaming platform ...
