The Tragically Hip are Canada’s most treasured band and 2024 marked 40 years since their formation. Lead singer Gord Downie died in 2017 but the rest of the band carry […]
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Warner Music UK COO, Isabel Garvey: “We will tolerate the red for a long time”
January 2025: Isabel Garvey, COO of Warner Music UK. The success exposition: in the age of LPs and CDs, that mystical era from the closing century of the previous millennium, […]
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Behind The Campaign: Shaboozey
US hip-hop and alt-country act Shaboozey first gained attention with 2018’s ‘Start A Riot’, but it was 2024’s ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ that really catapulted his career into the stratosphere. […]
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Spotify VP of markets & subscriptions, Gustav Gyllenhammar: “What would it take to build a service that is loved by a billion subscribers globally?”
December 2024: Gustav Gyllenhammar, VP of markets & subscriptions at Spotify. The subscription prescription: Spotify has just hit another landmark, topping a quarter of a billion subscribers. With growing competition […]
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Behind The Campaign: Paris Paloma
British singer-songwriter Paris Paloma released Cacophony, her debut album, in August 2024, but a series of regular singles were released from early 2023 onwards to lead into the album and […]
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Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota: “Licensing has always been too restrictive”
Startups need to understand (and respect) music and music’s value more, but equally copyright owners need to stop putting unnecessary obstacles.
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Behind The Campaign: Benson Boone
Benson Boone first pinged up on the industry’s radar in 2021 when he took part in American Idol, but he later withdrew from the competition to focus on his own […]
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Peermusic CEO Mary Megan Peer: “We’re seeing K-pop become part of the rubric of songs”
October 2024: Mary Megan Peer, CEO of Peermusic. K-pop ’n’ roll: the US and the UK provided the lingua franca of popular music for the entire twentieth century. They controlled […]
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Wasserman Music president Lee Anderson: “Festivals need to take more of a risk”
September 2024: Lee Anderson, President of Wasserman’s music division. Festival-ley of darkness: the death spiral of the music festival is simultaneously over- and under-exaggerated. The biggest keep getting bigger, but […]
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Behind The Campaign: Faye Webster
US singer-songwriter Faye Webster released Underdressed At The Symphony, her fifth studio album, in March 2024. The set up for the campaign began with two singles in 2023 (‘But Not […]
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Orfium CEO Rob Wells: “If you’re not delivering your information correctly, you’re underserving your constituents.”
August 2024: Rob Wells, CEO of Orfium. He discusses the “creeping issue” of broken data, how a fix today does not always ward off a problem tomorrow, why major labels […]
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Behind the campaign: Bring Me The Horizon
British rock band Bring Me The Horizon released Post Human: Nex Gen, their seventh studio album, on 24th May 2024. It was their first album since Amo in 2019, but […]
