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Music industry

June 2024

  • Ed Sheeran

    Ed Sheeran named UK’s most played artist of the year for seventh time

    Seven out of top 10 most played acts, encompassing radio, broadcast and public places, are British
  • Simon Cowell at the launch of his new boy band venture.

    Simon Cowell launches search for new boyband – by highlighting potential solo career

    Music mogul aims to replicate success of previous charges One Direction, but acknowledges ‘high degree of risk’ in venture

    • Private equity group to improve offer for Beyoncé song fund Hipgnosis

    • ‘She dominates our age’: how Taylor Swift became the greatest show on Earth

    • It’s the age of Swiftonomics – but will Taylor Swift’s phenomenal success trickle down?

May 2024

  • The cover of Renaissance, the Beyonce album featuring Break My Soul.

    Beyoncé sued for alleged copyright infringement with Break My Soul

  • Taylor Swift performs at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Demand for Taylor Swift’s UK tour could fuel summer ticket fraud bonanza

  • ‘This was a Meat Loaf situation: I would do anything for love.’

    My summer of love and lust: I fell for a Ukrainian rocker – but was I just a groupie?

  • Venus Grrrls band on stage at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.

    MPs call for levy on arena concert tickets to raise funds for struggling small venues

  • Drake and Kendrick’s rap beef explained: is this a ‘forever thing’?

  • Universal Music’s £119m CEO pay offer may provoke shareholder revolt

  • ‘Push through the feelings of: I’m worthless, this sucks’: can anyone learn to be a top songwriter?

  • Angry fans seek compensation from Co-op Live after third opening show axed

  • Universal signs TikTok deal allowing artists back on platform

April 2024

  • barechested, and winking, shrieking or gurning members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers band pose for a group portrait in 1984

    Hipgnosis backs £1.3bn private equity takeover by Blackstone

  • ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023.

    ‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

  • Beyoncé performs onstage at MetLife Stadium on 29 July in East Rutherford, New Jersey, during the Renaissance world tour.

    Hipgnosis in takeover tussle as UK music investor says it would accept rival bid

  • Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Singapore<br>SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - MARCH 02: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO BOOK COVERS Taylor Swift performs during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at the National Stadium on March 02, 2024 in Singapore. (Photo by Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

    Swifties queue up for special letter from singer in boost for UK’s Record Store Day

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    There should be no rush to replay Hipgnosis’s noisy stock market experiment

    Nils Pratley

  • UK music investor Hipgnosis agrees £1.1bn takeover by Concord Chorus

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