Encore: After losing leadership of the album chart to George Ezra last week, the Motion Picture Cast Recording of The Greatest Showman makes an emphatic return to the summit, while ...
Today (April 6) it has been revealed that the BPI Awards issued to singles and albums upon achieving particular sales/streaming landmarks will be rebranded The BRIT Certified Platinum, Gold & ...
Island Records’ head of urban, Alex Boateng, has told Music Week that his two new Urban Division hires represent “the final pieces of the puzzle”.
The Urban Division, which was ...
Universal Music Group’s revenues increased by 10% at constant currency in 2017 on the back of streaming growth and successful album campaigns.
The major recorded revenues of €5.673 billion (£5.04 ...
Ron Perry has been appointed as chairman and CEO of Columbia Records, which was headed by Rob Stringer until he took the top job at Sony Music in the US. ...
Kobalt's Capital fund has acquired Songs Music Publishing's catalogue in a deal said to involve most of the major players in the music publishing business bidding for the rights.
Described ...
Republic Records, Def Jam Recordings and Island Records have announced that Michael Alexander has been promoted to EVP, international.
Alexander, who continues to be based in New York, will direct ...
He may have been snubbed for the Grammys but Ed Sheeran has emerged triumphant in Spotify’s streaming figures for 2017.
Sheeran is Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2017 globally and ...
Tokio Myers has a problem with modern pop.
“Put on Radio 1 and it’s all the same music!” says the sleepy-voiced pianist, talking to Music Week in the frenzied run ...
Universal Music Group has revealed figures for the nine months to September 30 showing a 40.8% year-on-year increase in subscription and streaming revenues.
The increase was enough to offset the ...
