Is the album dead?
That’s the question some people will be asking as National Album Day and the Hyundai Mercury Prize loom and they contemplate 2020’s coronavirus-disrupted release schedule.
Which music biz are you in?
This point has been made before, but the sense that there are now two separate recorded music industries is becoming overwhelming.
Under coronavirus, many hard-pressed music biz executives may have taken on a side gig. But now it’s started happening to technology companies as well.
Everywhere you look, digital firms ...
If travel broadens the mind, what will staying at home do to the music industry?
Like many people in the biz, I’ve just returned from two weeks away – except ...
I did my first in-person interview since March last week, at the interviewee’s request, a sure sign that the music business is finally inching back towards normality.
Despite the social ...
Video never actually killed the radio star, but social media certainly seems to be doubling down on the assassination attempt.
Everywhere you look, music video strategies are being revised as ...
Last week’s news that Simon Cowell is buying out Sony Music’s share of his TV brands, and leaving Sony with Syco’s music catalogue, means that, at least for now, ...
Nostalgia ain’t quite what it used to be. As the long lockdown days continue to drift by, social media timelines – once full of FOMO-inducing updates live from glamorous events ...
How was your weekend? Perhaps you enjoyed your first pub pint for over three months and finally had a proper haircut. But, whatever you got up to, you still wouldn’t ...
It’s boom time for boomers. Bob Dylan and Neil Young are at the top of the charts and everywhere you look, back catalogue classics and Greatest Hits sets are dominating ...
