Music Week

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Music Week

Welcome to Music Week

Growing up: Maturing streaming market no longer delivering double-digit growth • Music Week crunches the Q3 numbers on streaming in the UK and quizzes industry figures on key issues including price rises and ad-funded services

Export factor: PRS Foundation backs artists' global ambitions • As the funding organisation marks its 25th anniversary, CEO Joe Frankland talks “transformative” programmes and prioritising action on music exports

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 • Established in 2006, Florida-based Symphonic is an independent distribution and marketing company that’s experiencing rapid international expansion. As it continues to announce new label deals, founder & CEO Jorge Brea talks the tech-powered company’s global growth roadmap, the role of independents and the future of streaming…

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

IN POD WE TRUST • INSIDE THE BEST MUSIC PODCASTS

SKY SPORTS/KASABIAN (FEAT. CRISTALE) • Kasabian soundtrack the title credits of Premier League football on Sky Sports for the second time…

RISING STAR

POSTS OF THE MONTH

ESSENTIAL INFO

AARON ROWE • Fresh from support slots with Sam Fender, Lewis Capaldi and more, Aaron Rowe is winning hearts by mixing hard-edged, emotional songs with his unmistakable soft vocal. Here, he reflects on his lucky break, Ed Sheeran’s words of wisdom and the new crop of Irish acts “paving the way”…

KEY RELEASES

INCOMING • After emerging with viral hit Lost Without You, Freya Ridings has released two solo albums characterised by poignant lyrics and her powerful voice. Newly signed to BMG, she returns having “reclaimed a bit of rebellion”…

THE PLAYLIST

TASTEMAKERS • The industry’s favourite new sounds

MAKING WAVES • THIS MONTH'S HOTTEST BRAND NEW ACT

HOTSHOTS

PYRE EDUCATION • The Last Dinner Party have been impossible to ignore ever since they first burst onto the scene, and now they must deliver on the hype all over again, armed with their brilliant second record From The Pyre. Music Week meets the band – plus Q Prime’s Peter Mensch, Island EMI Label Group president Louis Bloom and CAA’s Emma Banks – to lift the curtain on their new era. It’s an incendiary tale, one in which the band detail their expansive new sound, offer up a riposte to the naysayers and speak their minds on what the industry must do to protect new artists, grassroots venues and the ecosystem they came from…

ROLE CALL MEET TEAM THE LAST DINNER PARTY

THE Music Week INTERVIEW KAREN EMANUEL • You needed only to look at the sheer number of pink wigs being donned in the crowd as Karen Emanuel took to the stage at the Music Week Women In Music Awards last year to get a sense of the executive’s popularity. Equally impressive is the huge impact the Key Production Group founder has had on the UK industry. Here, she looks back on her Businesswoman Of The Year win, rebuffs worries about this year’s ‘vinyl wobble’ and outlines her succession plan after “working bloody hard” for 35 years…

MUSIC WEEK X GIRLS I RATE PRESENTS MENTOR ME • THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ACROSS THE MUSIC AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SHARE THEIR TOP 5 CAREER LESSONS…

Allen Key • This year, Amy Allen became the first woman to win the Grammy for Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical, and more evidence of her genius swiftly followed in the form of Sabrina Carpenter’s...