The new issue of Music Week is out now as we welcome Amazon Music UK director Paul Firth to our cover. In our comprehensive interview, Firth guides us through Amazon’s ...
The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) staged its AGM at the Curzon Soho at a time of renewed optimism, both among the DSP membership and the physical retailers benefiting from the ...
While much media attention is on the battle for streaming supremacy between Spotify and Apple Music, it seems clear that Amazon Music Unlimited is in a strong third place. ...
Amazon Music director Paul Firth has said the online giant is helping growth in the industry by “taking streaming to a new group of people” with its Alexa voice assistant. ...
While the music industry has been focused on Spotify’s IPO, the launch of YouTube Music and Apple Music’s growth in recent months, Amazon has been advancing its own ...
An ageing punk welcomes Music Week through the door of a new establishment in a side street in London’s Covent Garden, and directs us to the ‘living room’ for our ...
Music retail has high hopes for the Q4 release schedule with potential for an “enormous” Taylor Swift album alongside a predicted “huge seller” from Sam Smith.
“It’s definitely stronger than ...
Amazon has today (September 26) added the Alexa voice control system to the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android in the UK, US, Germany and Austria.
The app allows ...
There’s a new live music power player in town, and it’s not here to make up the numbers. Valued at an eye-watering $430 billion (£333bn), Amazon has the financial might ...
The existing streaming models weren’t really built for the mainstream music market,” claims Paul Firth, Amazon’s head of digital music UK, speaking to Music Week in the busy lobby of ...
