Entries in 'MW Opinion' (14)

Spotify turned 10 last week, and celebrated with a deluge of stats about its decade-long history. It's been 10 years of constant statistical growth, whether that's in terms of ...

For some of us, of course, every day is National Album Day. But the new event on the music industry calendar, which takes place tomorrow (October 13), will have ...

We learned many things at the inaugural Music Week Tech Summit Together With O2 last week. See this week's print edition of Music Week for more on that but – ...

Time was, record company executives would deride publishing as the ‘unsexy side of the music business’. The implication was that, while labels were out there putting their necks on the ...

There are many things to celebrate about yesterday’s European Parliament vote in favour of the new Copyright Directive. The fact that Article 13 - which will help make internet ...

It’s finally here. Today, members of the European Parliament will vote on the proposed new Copyright Directive - and whatever the result, it’s likely to have far-reaching ramifications for the ...

While the biz was focusing on Nick Grimshaw’s departure from Radio 1’s flagship Breakfast Show, fellow BBC network Radio 6 Music was quietly making a potentially more significant announcement. ...

This year’s Hyundai Mercury Prize shortlist is a curious one artistically, full of good, proper albums by well-established artists, but - unlike last year's debut-heavy list - low on exciting ...

It was diversity – in the form of the recent Music Week Women In Music Awards – that set me thinking about the theme of this quarter’s column. The winner ...

The new BBC One live music show, Sounds Like Friday Night, premieres at 7.30pm tonight Greg James and 1Xtra's Ashley "Dotty" Charles will host the show, with Jason Derulo, Charlie ...