Music duo for KING & COUNTRY is pleased to announce the release of their first-ever full-length Christmas album A Drummer Boy Christmas. Having already secured one billion total on-demand streams, four Grammy Awards, and millions of YouTube views for KING & COUNTRY have teamed up with producer Tedd T. on the album’s production, co-producer Benjamin […]

Tay Tay Starhz and Jude Read are the boys that make up the alternative-pop duo; Franklin Lake. Franklin Lake is being tipped to be the next big thing in the alternative-pop industry. They have been working tirelessly on their latest track and coming of age EP which is due to be released on the 18th […]

Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced the launch of Def Jam Africa, a new label division within the continent dedicated to representing the best hip-hop, Afrobeats and trap talent in Africa. Def Jam Africa will follow the blueprint of the iconic Def Jam Recordings label, which has led and […]

PRS for Music, the organisation that represents the rights of over 145,500 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK and worldwide, collected a record £810.8m on behalf of its members in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 8.7% (£65.0m).  Net costs for collecting royalties reduced 6.7% year-on-year to £87.5m, and after charitable donations of £3.2m, […]

Is This A New Beginning For The Live Music Scene? Lady Gaga curates virtual concert and benefit for COVID-19. Is this a new beginning for the live music scene? She has raised $35M USD (£28M GBP) and curated the One World: Together at Home, televised benefit concert, a live-streamed, brand new virtual concept that will […]

The singer was “drugged for four weeks, raped, and taken abroad” Duffy’s debut album Rockferry arrived in 2008. It was the same year as Adele, Leona Lewis, Gabriella Cilmi, and Estelle reigned in a post-Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black world. All of these women achieved international success. On the surface, it looked like it was […]

From relative obscurity in 2018 to the BRIT Awards in 2020, Aitch has come a long way in a short space of time. He’s a JD Sport ambassador, a fixture of The North Face, and now a promotional force behind the iPhone 11 Pro. But how has Aitch made it in music? How has he […]

Lewis James offers his take on the 62nd annual recording academy ceremony With TMZ reporting Kobe Bryant’s death to the media before his family had been informed on the morning of the 2020 Grammys awards, it sums up what is wrong with Hollywood. ​​The entertainment industry, when at its best, can offer a critical reflective […]

Urban Development, the new way for underground artists to become familiar with the current status of the music industry, are holding, yet another very important Industry Takeover seminar on February 11th at Kobalt Music Group, East London. This great organisation who have nurtured critically acclaimed talent such as Skepta, Devlin and Wretch 32 will be […]

“I chose these songs because they make me feel like a boss and when I’m working out I like to feel like I already am what I’m working towards. It motivates me” R&B Sensation Teenear has put together an exclusive workout playlist of her favourite, motivational R&B and hip-hop tracks to get her moving. Hopefully, […]