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British executives are flying high in the global music business. The leaders of Universal Music Group (Sir Lucian Grainge) and Sony Music Group (Rob Stringer) are both Brits, as is the global head of ...

British music is enjoying a historic run of dominance in 2026, with homegrown artists accounting for half of the year’s Top 10 biggest songs. According to new data from the Official Charts Company, ...

Perhaps the best thing that you can say about life in Britain over the last few years is that it’s rarely been boring. And, after a brief lull at the start of the year, the U.K. has once again been ...

The good news: the British music industry’s contribution to the UK’s economy in 2021 was up 26% from 2020. The bad news: it was still down 31% on its pre-pandemic peak in 2019. The British music ...

The second video in this series celebrating the contribution of black artists to British music spans the period 1960 to 1995. The popularity of imported music like Jamaican Ska and Reggae influenced ...

To celebrate the work of black British music makers, spanning the period of 1900 to the present day. To explore how black British music moves alongside and within British history. This video was ...

The British music journalist Dave Rimmer documented this lively and colorful U.K. pop music explosion as it was happening with his 1985 book Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop. A ...

Dean took home four awards at the ceremony in Manchester. By Thomas Smith You’d be forgiven if, by the close of BRIT Awards 2026, you felt a sense of déjà vu. Olivia Dean appeared on the Co-op Live’s ...

Starting as an opera and classical music festival in the early 1970s, Perth Festival of the Arts now covers all art forms including drama, rock, folk, jazz, visual art, literature and comedy. This ...