The music industry is ready for a “Q4 like no other” as labels and retailers gear up for an eventful end to what has already been an extraordinary year.
After ...
If Q2 was one of the most difficult quarters in the history of music retail, Q3 saw the fightback begin. Despite the ongoing disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, ...
Q2 will go down as one of the most challenging quarters for music retail in history. Yet, despite the coronavirus pandemic, music consumption continued to grow year-on-year. Music Week crunches ...
Compilation album sales are up.
That’s not a sentence it’s been possible to write in recent years, as the sector suffered a prolonged slump. But a rule change by the ...
Universal Music UK has launched The Square, an in-house agency at the major.
As exclusively revealed in the latest issue of Music Week, The Square will be led by ...
This time last year, things looked bleak for HMV.
The much-loved retail chain went into administration over Christmas 2018 and looked doomed – until it was rescued by Doug Putman’s ...
Q4 is officially in full swing. After Music Week’s annual Q4 special laid out this year’s contenders for the music industry’s peak selling season, the focus has shifted to ...
An inside look at some of the big releases coming your way from Universal Music...
Continuing on from a strong year so far, our Q4 releases are an eclectic mix ...
The second quarter of 2019 was another good one for the music business – but it was an even better one for Universal Music.
The overall business grew again, with ...
