Winning a Music Week Award for Sales Team is just one of the highlights of Derek Allen’s career. Here, Warner Music’s top sales exec looks back at his role ...
As Music Week revealed, National Album Day is returning for a second year. Saturday, October 12 is the date for the celebration of the long-player.
With the positive reaction ...
Despite the uncertainty caused by HMV's well-publicised woes at the end of last year, vinyl sales grew in the UK in the first three months of 2019, as revealed ...
After a difficult start to 2019 for physical music, with problems at PledgeMusic and HMV in administration, there was finally some good news last week.
HMV was saved from ...
ERA CEO Kim Bayley called it “the Christmas from hell”. And HMV blamed dismal December trading – albeit more in video than music – for it going into administration just ...
Following the inaugural edition of National Album Day, the results are in on the sales and streaming impact - and they make interesting reading.
While physical retailers made hay ...
National Album Day certainly seems to be generating plenty of interest ahead of its debut event on Saturday (October 13) – not least because of Music Week’s special albums issue, ...
Only four UK debuts in Top 200 at halfway stage, as labels increasingly target singles breakthroughs for emerging artists
Record labels are grappling with the changing environment for breaking ...
Can one million Greatest Showman fans be wrong?
That’s the question being asked by some in the music industry, as the soundtrack passes the million mark and sparks a debate ...
