My own Music Week moment arrived in April 1997. My appointment as editor of a different weekly music publication was covered by the many trade papers around in those days, ...
I write this shortly before I head off to Nashville for a few days. The home of country music is perhaps the ultimate example of how a local scene can ...
Google music services are like England World Cup campaigns: they come around every few years, generate a lot of hype and usually end in inglorious failure. Apart from that one ...
Happy New Year! Hopefully the dreaded return to work after Christmas hasn’t proved too bad, especially as the 2017 figures from the BPI and ERA should have instantly had everyone ...
Ever since iTunes arrived, the biz has pondered when it will see its first digital Christmas.
It never quite happened with downloads and, as I write this (ahead of the ...
Rob Stringer makes the point in this week’s Music Week cover story that the balance of power between labels and artists has shifted, and that a superstar artist now has ...
It’s been a terrible week for the US music business. After the horrors of Las Vegas, the death of Tom Petty was perhaps inevitably somewhat over-shadowed, but even amidst ...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
No, not Christmas – although that’ll be along soon enough. I’m talking of course about Q4; the final quarter of the year, ...
The great British festival weekend has long been an important rite of passage for our nation’s youth. In my day, the camping side of things – pitching your tent next ...
Reading the news headlines in the past week or so has not exactly been what one would call a big ol’ bag of laughs. It’s probably just me, but very ...
