The unstoppable rise of multiple co-writing credits is laid bare this week by new Music Week research that shows it now takes an average of four-and-a-half songwriters to generate the ...
1. STREAMING IS NOW A GLOBAL PHENOMENONThe global value of streaming grew a massive 60.4% in 2016 as new services launched and the world caught on to the new ...
The new Spotify-Universal licensing deal has been a long time coming. The music business has been waiting for the world’s leading audio streaming service to agree to windowing albums on ...
The Official Charts Company Q1 sales flash has arrived, and were a simple, three-word headline needed to sum it up, one could be forgiven on settling on the words ‘Ed’, ...
In a first quarter with more frontline product than is normally the case, the last big shot to be fired is Automaton, the first album of new material by Jamiroquai ...
Two artists - Ed Sheeran and Drake - accounted for more than half of the Top 75 between them last week, and although their stream-fuelled domination has subsided a little ...
Drake (feat Black Coffee and Jorja Smith)Get It Together, IslandDrake’s patronage of UK talent continues, with this minimal housey groove augmented by rising Midlands singer Smith’s moreish vocal. ...
Their support in Europe has barely wavered since they launched their career with Speak & Spell in 1981, and Depeche Mode's 14th studio album, Spirit, makes a huge first impression on ...
All 16 songs from Ed Sheeran's Divide album continue to command places in the Top 75, with Shape Of You racking up its 11th straight week atop the chart - ...
