Last week’s Brit Awards made a digital splash well beyond the UK, according to stats released by the organisers this morning. The event was watched by 1.7 million people on […]
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Amazon Music and TikTok on board for 2021 Brit Awards
This year’s Brit Awards will be taking place on 11 May, a little later in the year than usual due to Covid-19. With the nominations due to be announced tomorrow […]
BPI / Brit Awards donate £54k to Covid-19 Crew Relief Fund
As Covid-19’s second wave sweeps Europe (and the first wave seemingly never ran out of steam in much of the US) we may soon have to revive our regular ‘positive […]
Brit Awards reveal plans for digital activations next week
Next Wednesday is the Brit Awards, the flagship annual awards show for the British music industry. It’s fair to say the organisers are leaving no stops un-pulled out when it […]
Sam Smith gig to be streamed live into Channel 4 ad break
A gig by Sam Smith will be streamed live into the 10.45pm ad break during Channel 4’s Alan Carr: Chatty Man TV show this Friday (30th May) in the UK. Smith, who […]
Sandbox 103 – Teenage Rampage
Lead: Those aged 11-14 are perhaps the most misunderstood of all audiences for music. Some presume these digital natives have scrapped old media completely, turned their noses up at the social giants like Twitter and Facebook and prefer instead to use messaging apps and games. But that’s only part of the story. Those tasked with marketing to them told us how they do it, what language they have to use and how the major music consumers of tomorrow should be best understood.
Adele is the first double-platinum artist on iTunes US
Adele’s ’21’ has become the first album to go double-platinum on the US iTunes Store, selling 2m downloads in the year since its original release there.