Following the BPI’s recorded music market figures last week, the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has now issued its numbers for 2022.
The preliminary figures - which will be confirmed in ...
Arctic Monkeys are back with their seventh album, The Car (Domino Recordings). So to mark the occasion and a huge week for music retail, longtime manager Ian McAndrew has spoken ...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with a new album - the trio’s first in almost a decade.
Cool It Down also marks the US alternative rock act’s new relationship with ...
Resident Music co-founders Natasha Youngs and Derry Watkins have spoken to Music Week about the vital role that record shops play in the music industry.
At this year’s Music ...
Fontaines DC have their first No.1 with third album Skinty Fia, which opened at the summit on Friday (April 29) with almost 20,000 sales.
It’s the second No.1 album for ...
Digital was once a dirty word in record shops - digital-first was even worse.
When David Bowie made his 1999 album Hours available to buy as a download ahead of ...
The Entertainment Retailers Association has just released its 2022 Yearbook, which is essential reading for those who closely follow the UK music market’s performance.
While it was long associated with ...
Yard Act caught almost everyone by surprise when debut album The Overload made them No.1 contenders.
The Leeds post-punk band were in hot pursuit of Years & Years last week. ...
Warner Music Group's latest results underlined a trend in Q2: huge increases in physical music sales. Vinyl is, of course, a format whose growth we have been carefully tracking. ...
Record Store Day returns on Saturday, June 12 with around 250 stores participating in the first vinyl drop.
That’s one of the biggest totals on record for RSD, which suggests ...