The music industry may have completely changed in the last 20 years, but one thing has remained remarkably stable: the criteria for judging if a new artist has broken.
Despite ...
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 might have seen some of the biggest upheavals in music consumption in the history of the music business. But it also produced one clear winner: Dua Lipa. ...
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 ...
As the music industry returns to work, it’s time for our traditional survey of the sector to kick off the year.
The start of a new decade is set to ...
LadBaby’s I Love Sausage Rolls (Frtyfve/AWAL) has romped home in the race for the Christmas No.1 single. It’s a second consecutive festive chart-topper for the novelty act.
In the ...
Just when everyone had almost given up on the Stormzy album coming out in 2019, it emerged that it would finally appear at the tail end of Q4.
The UK ...
Can Ed Sheeran do it again?
Two years ago, Asylum/Atlantic and Sheeran’s manager Stuart Camp executed the Perfect campaign to, well, perfection; scoring the Christmas No.1 single and pushing its ...
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 ...
Derek Allen, Warner Music's SVP, commercial, has spoken to Music Week about the major's ambitions for Liam Gallagher's new album.
Why Me? Why Not was released on Friday (September ...
