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British soul talent and BBC Sound of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka launches a new interactive video to the tune of Tell Me A Tale, featuring an exclusive competition within.
08/03/2012
James Cowdery – Innovation Manager, Universal Music UK
I’m delighted to announce the launch today of the Umusic UK Artist Gateway – a new way of talking about our artists online. We now have a data-driven, dynamically published and persistent web page for every one of our UK artists and each of their albums and singles.
Secret 7”- the project combining the worlds of music and art in aid of charity - threw open its doors on Saturday, Record Store Day, for the sale of over 600 sleeves.
23/04/2012
Secret 7”- an exciting project combining the worlds of music and art in aid of charity - reaches its climax this week, when around 600 individually-designed seven-inch vinyl record sleeves go on display at the Idea Generation Gallery in East London.
26/03/2012
Madonna is back, bigger than ever with her brand new album MDNA, out now.
23/03/2012
Alex Close - A&R Manager, Fiction
Wednesday
Touch down.
Cab to my hotel.
Unfortunately little did I know there are three hotels of the same name in Austin and in error I’ve been put in the one which happens to be furthest from the action. In fact it feels like it’s in a different state!
14/03/2012
Much has been made in the media recently of artists holding albums back from streaming sites. Paul Weller once again rips up the rule book and makes his brand new album Sonik Kicks, officialyl released on March 19, available to stream to across the web this week.
12/03/2012
Stuart Dredge (@stuartdredge)
Is Spotify and its streaming music rivals cannibalising download sales from stores like Apple’s iTunes? Universal Music UK’s director of digital Paul Smernicki says not.
“You can imagine that when Spotify first launched, it sent a lot of people in the music industry into panic mode – ‘Let people stream stuff? Just madness!’,” said Smernicki at today’s Guardian Changing Media Summit, where he was speaking in a digital music panel session.
12/03/2012
Jennifer Fong (@jenfong)
Media & Communications, LSE SU AMP Society
Cast your mind back. Maybe 15, 18 years. 1994: Ace of Base was the best thing to come out of Sweden since Ikea and everyone was singing about seeing The Sign. It feels just like yesterday, doesn’t it?
08/03/2012
Francis Keeling – Global Head of Digital Business, UMGI
Adele being cut off in full flow may have been the most memorable moment of this year’s Brit awards, but the real story of the music industry’s annual jamboree was the continuing conveyor belt of British talent.
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