The Other Songs has landed its first number No.1 album with Ren’s Sick Boi.
The breakout artist's sophomore LP was driven to No.1 by direct-to-fan marketing and sales. Thanks to ...
Swiss fintech company Utopia Music has completed another major acquisition.
Utopia Distributions Services has agreed a deal for market-leading physical entertainment distributor Cinram Novum. Terms were not disclosed.
Proper Music Group, part of the Utopia family, and classical music specialist Naxos UK have unveiled a new logistics deal.
Spanning the UK and Ireland, the agreement will see ...
The Sherlocks are celebrating a second Top 10 album.
While the band have a proven chart track record, they’ve done it without a label partner on this campaign after exiting ...
Recorded music consumption in the UK increased by 2.5% year-on-year in 2021, with 159.3 million albums or their equivalent either streamed or purchased across all formats.
The Album Equivalent Streams ...
This week we’re celebrating the 100th birthday of HMV.
Execs, artists and broadcasters have already been sharing their memories of the entertainment chain, including in-store appearances from David Bowie ...
Happy birthday, HMV!
Today (July 20) the last music chain officially turns 100 - it was exactly a century ago that composer Sir Edward Elgar opened the famous store on ...
HMV is set to reopen its doors on April 12, as the government eases Covid restrictions on non-essential retail. But what does the future hold for the retail chain ...
It’s official: the vinyl revival is here to stay in 2021.
While the pandemic has clearly hurt CD sales in the last year as HMV and record shops were forced ...
Architects singer Sam Carter has told Music Week that his band’s first ever No.1 album shows the strength of the UK’s heavy music scene.
The band topped the charts ...