BPI In The News

5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023

MBW picks out a handful of statistics underpinning some of the red-hot issues bubbling away as we type...

Peter Leathem, YolanDa Brown, Geoff Taylor and Robin Millar named in UK New Year’s Honours List

It's the first New Year's honours list to ever be issued by King Charles III.

Record labels welcome UK competition authority report on streaming, as Merck Mercuriadis slams CMA for not using ‘powers they have to fix the problems they identify’

Streaming market study report receives mixed response from the music industry

Merck Mercuriadis slams ‘tragedy’ of UK streaming inquiry outcome for songwriters, as record labels applaud industry’s ‘strong progress’

Representatives for music labels and musicians were quizzed on the Economics of Music Streaming in the UK this week

BMG’s Global Head of Catalog Recordings, Peter Stack, to step down at end of 2022

Stack joined BMG in 2014 following the company's acquisition Union Square Music

‘Classical music is not subject to trends and fads. The genre shows longer-term value across generations.’

MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Martin Kudla, Deputy Director and Digital Marketing Manager at Czech record label SUPRAPHON

UK record labels spent $41m on A&R every month in 2021

BPI says that this A&R spend, which includes artist advances, creating new recordings, video costs and tour support, was 106.6% more in 2021 than the £173.3 million ($225m) spent in 2016.

UK BRIT Awards move to Saturday, returning on February 11, 2023

Aside from Adele, other stand-out winners and performance moments during the 2022 BRITS came from Little Simz, Dave, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and Ed Sheeran.