Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is among this year’s Polar Music Prize winners.
Grammy-winning Beninese artist Angélique Kidjo and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt are also recipients of the ...
U2 have earned their 11th No.1 album in a career lasting more than four decades.
Songs Of Surrender, which features stripped back recordings of 40 U2 tracks, opened at the ...
Veteran A&R Nick Stewart signed U2 to Island in 1980 and has enjoyed a distinguished industry career ever since. Now CEO of anti-piracy business TCAT, he reminisces about Bono, Irving ...
The Lathums are the frontrunners in this week’s albums chart race.
The Wigan band, who scored their first No.1 in 2021, are in top spot with From Nothing To ...
Erika Clark has been promoted to vice president, media relations at Island Records.
Based in New York, Clark will report directly to Lauren Schneider, executive vice president, media relations. ...
Sparks have returned to Island Records almost 50 years on from their breakthrough album with the label, Music Week can reveal.
The inventive and enduring pop duo have re-signed to ...
Ever since she first discovered jungle, Nia Archives has been in pursuit of making floorfillers of her own. Music Week hears the Island act’s plan to channel her feelings into ...
INTERVIEW: Anna Fielding PHOTO: Rosie Matheson
Amid all the year-end data for recorded music, the figures for debut artists are a key indicator for the progress of labels' ...
FLO have followed up their BRITs Rising Star Award with first place in the BBC Sound Poll.
Now known as BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of 2023, the poll is now ...
The Specials have paid tribute to singer and songwriter Terry Hall, who has died aged 63 after a brief illness.
The Specials had two consecutive Top 5 albums between 1979 ...
