The last time Music Week caught up with Rag’N’Bone Man, he was in a car park in Leeds reflecting on a gig in Swindon the previous evening, when he opened ...
1. PHYSICAL MUSIC IS NOT AS RESILIENT AS YOU THINK IT IS…Blah blah blah vinyl revival. Blah blah blah CD sales holding up remarkably well. These are the phrases ...
Legendary music manager Paul McGuinness has dismissed claims that changes to the record industry have hurt the chances of finding “the next U2”.
McGuinness was U2’s manager for 35 years, ...
BBC 6 Music head Paul Rodgers is toasting “a year of firsts” for the 6 Music Festival, with the event set to make its TV debut this year.
The festival, ...
I can see why the recent domination of the singles chart by album tracks from the likes of Stormzy and Ed Sheeran is potentially bad news for anyone trying to ...
Global Entertainment has consolidated its status as the UK’s second largest festival operator after securing majority stakes in Portsmouth’s Victorious Festival and Croatia’s Hideout.
The company, which entered the festivals ...
As Artificial Intelligence continues to evolve as a technology, it presents all new opportunities and challenges, both legal and creative, for the music industry. Here, Gregor Pryor, co-chair of Reed ...
The scene was a familiar one: a huge open-air event, staged by a local music promoter, packed to the brim with tens of thousands of devotees in anticipation of the ...
Sony/ATV’s new president, worldwide creative, Guy Moot, has told Music Week that the company’s uninterrupted year as publisher or co-publisher of the UK No.1 single was largely due to its ...
The music biz is once again wrestling with the implications of the move to a streaming consumption model, as the flooding of the Singles Chart by multiple tracks from hit ...
