Music Week

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Music Week

Welcome to Music Week

Forever Young: How long-term commitment elevated Lola Young to global stardom • Island EMI president Louis Bloom and international campaign manager Olivia Poust talk self-belief, new music and building on the success of Messy

Heavy hitters: Bands expanding reach with DSP breakthroughs • Ahead of this year's National Album Day celebrating all things rock, Music Week analyses the growing impact of the heavier end of the genre on DSPs

FOR THE RECORD • SOME OF THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM THE PAST MONTH IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS

SPOTLIGHT SHINING A LIGHT ON MUSIC'S BIGGEST NAMES • Following partnerships with Warner Music and Universal Music, North East-based development organisation Generator will play a key role in next month's Mercury Prize in Newcastle. Here, CEO Mick Ross outlines their vision for nurturing talent in the region – with support from Sam Fender – and welcomes the focus away from the capital…

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

IN POD WE TRUST • INSIDE THE BEST MUSIC PODCASTS

MY OXFORD YEAR/LAURA WELSH • Written and recorded in just 24 hours, this song shows the power of specialised sync-focused writing camps….

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

ESSENTIAL INFO

ALESSI ROSE • “People that listen to me feel similar things to me,” says Alessi Rose, who is amassing a growing cult of devoted fans of her “painfully honest” take on pop. Here, Music Week delves deeper into the mind of the 22-year-old future star and discusses major moves, hype and playing stadiums with Dua Lipa…

KEY RELEASES

INCOMING • In the 10 years since Ella Eyre released her debut, she has parted ways with two labels, had vocal surgery and been through a break-up. Here, she discusses her new sound, industry ups and downs, and doing things her way…

MAKING WAVES • THIS MONTH'S HOTTEST BRAND NEW ACT

HOTSHOTS

LOVE CONQUERS ALL • This summer, the buzz around Olivia Dean's name got louder and louder, as the build-up to her second album The Art Of Loving gathered pace. Ahead of its release, she announced – and sold out – four shows at The O2, and became the first British female artist to achieve three simultaneous Top 10 hits since Adele. And that's just for starters. Here, Music Week joins the star and her team in the eye of the storm. Her longtime manager Emily Braham has seen her own career blossom in line with Dean's, while Jo Charrington, leading the charge as president at Capitol UK alongside MD Tom Paul, believes the singer will define the future of the label. Welcome, then, to the Olivia Dean show. As she explains, “it's kind of crazy” right now…

ROLE CALL MEET TEAM OLIVIA DEAN

THE Music Week INTERVIEW GEE DAVY • Gee Davy joined the Association Of Independent Music (AIM) in 2017 and now, as CEO, has become the new face of the indie sector in the UK and beyond. Relentlessly passionate and dedicated to supporting AIM's members, she has been a prominent voice on a range of issues including AI, proposed acquisitions of independent companies by majors and more. Ahead of this month's 15th edition of the Independent Music Awards, Music Week gets an audience with Davy to hear how she's been “flexing my leadership muscles”…

CRITICAL MASS • Since 2013, Mass Appeal has been operating under the principle “premium storytelling with hip-hop as the focus”. Those are the words of CEO Peter Bittenbender, who relaunched the company with rap icon Nas and late journalist Sacha Jenkins. This year's huge Legend Has It… project –...