Market SharesUniversal has been unusually squeezed in the market shares in the last few quarters, but in Q2, David Hawkes declares the market-leading major to be “back in business”. ...
Jamie Oborne is at the Parklife Festival in Heaton Park, Manchester. On stage are The 1975, the band that he has steered, as both manager and record label boss, to ...
Polydor co-president Tom March has pledged to keep the UK music biz feelgood factor going with big sales of Take That’s new album.
Wonderland was released on Friday (March 24), ...
Take That’s new album, Wonderland, is out today – with the band’s label hoping last-minute Mother’s Day purchases will help send the record towards a big first week.
The band ...
The music biz is once again wrestling with the implications of the move to a streaming consumption model, as the flooding of the Singles Chart by multiple tracks from hit ...
Polydor co-presidents Tom March and Ben Mortimer have declared that they are “definitely breaking new artists this year” in a conversation with Music Week.
Following a now infamously fraught 2016 ...
Polydor co-presidents Tom March and Ben Mortimer have told Music Week that their current albums chart purple patch shows the label is back as a force to be reckoned with. ...
Polydor Records has announced its new management team, with Tom March and Ben Mortimer appointed co-presidents of the Universal frontline label.
Mortimer steps up after four years as Polydor A&R ...