US charts analysis: Cher Lloyd wanted in States Gated Content

by Paul Willams
on Jul 19th 2012 at 12:05PM

Midweek Charts: Elton could be heading back to No 1 Gated Content

by Paul Willams
on Jul 18th 2012 at 4:15PM

Official Charts Analysis: Newton Faulkner needs just 16k sales to hit No.1 Gated Content

by Paul Willams
on Jul 16th 2012 at 10:00AM

Official Charts Analysis: No.1 Chris Brown LP sells 30k units in UK Gated Content

by Paul Willams
on Jul 9th 2012 at 2:57PM

US charts analysis: One Direction among half-year's biggest sellers Gated Content

by Paul Willams
on Jul 5th 2012 at 2:14PM

Official Charts Analysis: Bieber beats Cheryl to No.1 by 3,181 sales Gated Content

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We needn't have bothered. Last week's stomach-punch news that a Great British institution was being flogged to the tune of ...

The eyes have it Gated Content

At the MITS Award dinner last week, Jools Holland, the fund-raising organisation's Man of the Year, gave a slick speech ...

EDITORIAL: Instant market transformation. Google it Gated Content

Between Facebook's first real music move, Spotify ramping up its US presence and Apple introducing iCloud (not to mention the ...

EDITORIAL: No comfort for old men Gated Content

It has been close to a decade since my service as a plastic peddler in Essential Music, Greenwich Market.

Queen: a 40-year reign Gated Content

Brian May is too much of a gentleman to complain, but for all the commercial success Queen enjoyed in the ...

TALENT FOCUS: Professor Green Gated Content

Green - aka Stephen Manderson - told Music Week: "You have to make hay while the sun shines - the ...

EDITORIAL: The industry has lost its nerve with on air/on sale Gated Content

It is the reason there are no longer many weeks' gap between blockbuster films debuting in US and UK movie ...

Napster/Rhapsody deal exposes just how tough the digital market is Gated Content

Both companies, of course, have changed hands several times already in their relatively short lives and the absorption of Napster ...

Music Week Playlist: Rizzle Kicks and Zulu Winter Gated Content

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Bocelli salutes the Big Apple Gated Content

For an artist who has sold around 70 million albums and performed everywhere from the Cathedral Duomo di Milano to ...

TALENT FOCUS: Matt Cardle Gated Content

While Barlow pricked the ears of Sony A&R; consultant Chris Briggs, it was former X Factor winner Cardle who - ...

Quarter four: the cue for success Gated Content

For an industry that is supposedly dying on its feet, the first nine months of 2011 have not been so ...

EDITORIAL: Product in place but will stockings be filled? Gated Content

And while Adele has since made even Take That look average with the first album in history to sell 3 ...

CAMPAIGN FOCUS: Boyz II Men Gated Content

Celebrating two decades in the music business since they formed 20 years ago this week on September 19, 1991, Twenty ...

Dave Stewart: the Tourist's trail Gated Content

But 2011 could well see that change; 30 years on from the release of Eurythmics' debut album, In Your Garden, ...

Coldplay exclusive: band talk to MW about new album Gated Content

Guitarist Jonny Buckland explains: "Brian's a very inspirational character. He wrote us a letter actually after we finished the last ...

EDITORIAL: Industry reaps rewards of grassroots investment Gated Content

However, what it has helped to achieve with the Brit School deserves the highest praise in the land. More than ...

TALENT FOCUS: Ryan Adams Gated Content

Johns - best known for his work with the likes of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Clash, The Who and ...