Music Week

We are the leading trade media brand for the UK music industry with unrivalled access to game-changing artists and executives. Music Week remains essential reading for anyone who needs to understand the business of music.

Welcome to Music Week…

Music Week

Notes on a conditional format: Record Store Day targets new generation of fans • Ahead of RSD 2023, ERA's Megan Page talks superstar acts, TikTok moments and the evolution of a retail initiative that saved vinyl from extinction

Kill time: SZA makes UK impact on streaming, radio and TikTok • RCA and BBC Radio 1 execs open up about the campaign for the US R&B star's gold-certified album, SOS, which has become a global phenomenon

FOR THE RECORD

THE BIG CHANGE

TAKE A BOW

SPOTLIGHT • SHINING A LIGHT ON MUSIC'S BIGGEST NAMES

WRITE THE FUTURE: CHANGEMAKERS • Write The Future is a series that showcases insights and trends in music. Here, Vanessa Bakewell, client partner at Meta, talks to Yaw Owusu, a Liverpool-based creative consultant who builds projects that integrate music, culture and content production and deliver a long-term impact for creatives, brands, organisations and communities. Owusu recently won in the Senior Leader category of the inaugural Changemakers Awards in recognition of his work at the intersection of music, culture and content…

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

IN POD WE TRUST • INSIDE THE BEST MUSIC PODCASTS

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

TWEETS OF THE MONTH

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

LIBIANGA • Right now, Libianca's name is reverberating around the world, thanks to her seismic viral smash People. Music Week meets the Minnesota-based singer to talk stardom, mental health and healing…

THE PLAYLIST

TASTE MAKERS • The industry's favourite new sounds

MAKING WAVES

TANQUERAY/GABRIELS

KEY RELEASES • The essential albums heading your way…

INCOMING • Ahead of the release of Drop Cherries, her rawest album yet, Music Week meets the Fiction-signed Billie Marten to talk trusting her voice, taking credit where it's due, and her fight against irony…

HOTSHOTS SPECIAL BRIT AWARDS 2023 GALLERY • The UK - and, indeed, global - music industry was out in full force for the BRIT Awards 2023, with Harry Styles being crowned the night's top winner. Here we round up some of the very best shots and gatherings of triumphant artists and top executives at the ceremony and aftershows…

SOFT FOCUS • The second coming of Arlo Parks brings cause for celebration, not just because a bona fide Uk breakthrough success is about to return, but because she does so with a plan to make the industry a better place for artists. With her candid new album My Soft Machine on the horizon, Music Week joins the Mercury Prize - winning indie star, plus Beatnik Creative and Transgressive Records, to talk mental health, breaking big and making a difference…

THE Music Week INTERVIEW ED HOWARD & BRIONY TURNER • Atlantic co-presidents Ed Howard and Briony Turner are on a hot streak, as proven by their label winning Record Company Of The Year at the Music Week Awards in 2022. Just over three years into their tenure, Music Week meets the long-serving Warner pair to discuss their artist-first revolution, the state of Uk talent and why, for these two executives, life at the top of a major label will never, ever be boring…

THE LIFE ATLANTIC • Music Week meets Austin Daboh, Liz Goodwin and Damian Christian to lift the lid on the major's new era…

RADIO ACTIVE • It's almost a year since Pete Black left the major label plugging world behind to join Ben Cooper's...