Music Week

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Music Week

Welcome to Music Week…

Physical activity: Strong vinyl sales and CD’s resilience deliver retail stimulus • Physical music is set for the first annual units increase in 20 years. Here, execs from the BPI, ERA, HMV and Rough Trade assess the future for formats

So far so good: UK indie builds ‘global network’ for chart stars • Following albums success with Enter Shikari, Placebo and Big Special, So Recordings’ Adam Greenup reveals the strategy for established acts and new talent

FOR THE RECORD

TAKE A BOW

SPOTLIGHT SHINING A LIGHT ON MUSIC’S BIGGEST NAMES

START ME UP • THE NEW COMPANIES DRIVING MUSIC’S FUTURE

IN POD WE TRUST • INSIDE THE BEST MUSIC PODCASTS

DIGITAL DISCOURSE • Deviate Digital CEO Sammy Andrews guides you through the ever-changing tech world…

TWEETS OF THE MONTH

RISING STAR • Meet the industry’s brightest new talents…

ELLES BAILEY • In an era of viral success, Elles Bailey represents the true value of slow-burn artist development. Here, we meet the Bristol singer to talk Americana, swapping DIY life for a new label deal and Beyoncé...

THE PLAYLIST

TASTE MAKERS • The industry’s favourite new sounds

MAKING WAVES • The Shropshire-born alt-pop singer-songwriter is building a loyal fanbase of people just like her…

SYNC STORY

KEY RELEASES • The essential albums heading your way…

INCOMING • Ten years on from releasing her last album, Pixie Lott finally returns with her most powerful record yet, Encino. Here, she tells the story of a record shaped by passion, dedication and fierce independence…

HOTSHOTS

READY FOR THE FLOOR • We’re almost a year on from Ezra Collective’s Mercury Prize win and, with their follow-up imminent, the hype around their name is intensifying once again. Channelling both The Beatles and Fela Kuti, they recorded Dance, No One’s Watching at Abbey Road and have grand ambitions for its rollout. To find out more, Music Week meets band members Femi Koleoso and Ife Ogunjobi, manager Amy Frenchum, plus Jeff Bell and Zena White of Partisan. What follows is the latest chapter in an indie breakthrough story about identity, perseverance and never compromising…

MUSIC WEEK X GIRLS I RATE PRESENTS MENTOR ME • THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACROSS THE MUSIC AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SHARE THEIR TOP 5 CAREER LESSONS…

THE Music Week INTERVIEW ROBERT RONALDSON • Pioneering talent discovery methods in the music industry was never part of Robert Ronaldson’s career plan, but his work with Robots + Humans has helped break a wave of acts including Koffee, Young T & Bugsey, Powfu and more. Here, the tech entrepreneur turned frontline president opens up about his major label life at Sony, analyses music’s changing relationship with data and sounds a reassuring note about the UK’s emerging talent chalenge…

HEAD LINE ACT • Camille ‘Kamille’ Purcell is one of the most successful UK songwriters of her generation, having worked with Little Mix, Dua Lipa, Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne and many more. But hitmaking with others has never been her end goal, and now her artist career is taking full flight with new single Headline making waves on radio. Here, Music Week meets the singer, songwriter and producer to hear the somewhat unconventional plan for her K2 project and discuss collaboration, business and creativity…

CAUSE FOR THOUGHT • Darcus Beese shared his remarkable industry story with Music Week when he won The Strat in 2019, but this year his journey is set to be illuminated like...