A third of albums sold in 2011 were Pop – the genre’s biggest share since 1999
Rock’s album share falls below 30% for the first time since 2003
Pop outguns Rock on singles 2-1 having doubled its sha
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Tickets for the 2012 Music Producers Guild Awards are selling fast and early indications are that this year’s event in London on February 16th will be another sell out.
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A fourth successive record year for singles and growing consumer confidence in digital albums could not offset a further decline in overall UK music sales, new Official Charts Company figures released
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31 December 2011 - Margaret Liddy, a senior executive in the record industry and resident of Coulsdon, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s honours list for services to the music industry and cha
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• Sales of up to 20 million CDs expected this Christmas
• Deluxe and Special Editions account for one in 10 physical albums sales
• Christmas market gears up for key catalogue and new release repac
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A new generation of female artists including Adele, Jessie J, Rumer, Florence + The Machine, Katy Perry, Christina Perri, Birdy, Lykke Li and Lady Gaga, has taken the music industry by storm this year
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Sales of digital albums have already smashed the 2010 record, selling 21.3 million copies, two months ahead of the year end, new Official Charts Company data released by BPI reveals today.
The n
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Johann Sebastian Bach has been voted the nation’s favourite classical composer in a major new poll carried out for British recording industry trade body The BPI.
The German composer, whose much-l
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Recording industry figures for Q3 2011 shows digital album sales up by a quarter in a year
Digital now accounts for 28.2% of all UK albums sales, up from 20.1% in the third quarter of 2010, new offic
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More than 65m albums sold globally by former BRIT School students including Adele, Leona Lewis, Katie Melua and The Feeling, new Official Charts Company figures reveal.
Two decades of incred
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The adoption of an EU Directive extending the term of copyright in sound recordings from 50 to 70 years was today welcomed by British music industry bodies BPI, The Musicians’ Union, AIM and PPL.
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BPI and its major and independent members today announced that a fund of more than £100,000 is being made available to indie labels affected by the fire at the Sony DADC distribution centre.
Geoff
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The defining characteristic of the UK’s recorded music market is its overwhelming potential for overseas success. Without the impact being made by British artists across the globe, our industry would
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New Ipsos MORI survey finds four-fifths of public proud of British music’s achievements
6 July 2011 – British artists accounted for almost 12% of global sales of recorded music during 2010, new B
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Music stars encourage kids to register and find out more at www.nextbritthing.com
6 July 2011 - Young people aged 11-19 from Great Britain and Northern Ireland are being encouraged to register for
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The 7th annual BPI Sync Licensing mission took place in Los Angeles June 6/8th. Organised in conjunction with the UKTI and Music Publishers Association (MPA), the mission saw 45 UK companies travel to
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Saturday 11th June 2011 – Tony Wadsworth, Chairman of The BPI has been awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List today in recognition of his services to the British Music Industry.
On
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The nomination process for elections to BPI Council is now closed. We are pleased to announce that the following candidates will stand for election to the role of Designated Major Representative at t
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The BPI has appointed Ian Moss to the role of Director of Public Affairs with effect from 6 June 2011.
Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive, said: “We are delighted that Ian is joining the BPI as Di
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The BPI is updating its Parental Advisory Scheme to help ensure that parents and consumers are informed before streaming or downloading songs or videos that contain explicit content on UK digital musi
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BPI and the Musicians’ Union have entered into a new agreement for commissioning and paying UK session musicians.
The New BPI & MU Agreement – which applies to all sessions taking place from Wedne
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· UK retail spending on digital music in excess of £1,014m since launch in 2004.
· Adele’s 21 is the UK’s biggest selling digital album of all time.
· Average retail price
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The Stateside singles success of Taio Cruz and Jay Sean, alongside strong albums sales from Susan Boyle and Sade, helped boost the UK’s share of the US market for recorded music during 2010, new figur
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The BPI today questioned the cancellation of the BBC’s Electric Proms series of televised music concerts, arguing that it further weakens the Corporation’s ability to meet its commitment to stimulatin
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Responding to today’s announcement that certain sections of the Digital Economy Act will be reviewed by Ofcom, BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor commented:
“The BPI continues to believe that measur
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Julian Wall Director of International Events at the UK trade body the BPI has announced the dates for the 2011 international trade mission programme. The first of these will be the US Sync Licensing m
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· Combined 2010 digital and physical album sales decline 7% overall in volume to 119.9m.
· Digital powers singles to third successive record high – 161.8m sold in 2010, up 5.9%.
· The digital
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Digital Music Nation 2010 - Download the report
The UK’s digital music market continues to expand, but record levels of illegal downloading present a serious threat to the country’s online mus
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The BRIT Awards 2011 with MasterCard today announce that Take That and Plan B are confirmed to perform at the UK’s most loved and prestigious music awards. They will perform at the Awards’ new home, T
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It’s All Change For The BRIT Awards in 2011
2011 marks the dawning of an exciting new era for the UK’s premiere music event,
with a number of high profile changes to mak
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Switching to digital delivery of music promotional releases across the independent music sector would save 1,525 tonnes of CO2 annually – a reduction of 86% - new research conducted by Julie’s Bicycle
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A significant new initiative to accelerate the development of the UK’s legal digital music market was today unveiled by the BPI.
The BPI Innovation Panel offers support to both new and established
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The BPI today launched a series of teaching seminars giving training and practical help for its independent record label members.
The first seminar, presented by the Amplifi Academy, will a two-da
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UK sales of digital albums have now soared past the 50 million mark, with digital now accounting for almost 20% of all albums sold, new figures released today by recording industry body The BPI and th
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The BPI has appointed Theo Blackwell as the new Director of Public Affairs to replace the outgoing Director, Richard Mollet, who will be leaving shortly to take up his new role of CEO at the Publisher
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British music fans have pushed the digital revolution to new heights, with the number of downloads bought in the UK passing the half-a-billion mark for the very first time - the Official Charts Compan
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UK’s premiere music event teams up with the world’s most successful music venue
Monday 6th September 2010 – February 2011 will mark the start of a new era for the UK’s most prestigious music eve
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Bigger Than Ever The BRIT Awards 2011 with MasterCard
unveils new location and confirms date
UK’s premiere music event teams up with the world’s most successful music venue
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Income outside of traditional music sales up 6.6% in 2009
Film, TV, advertising and games sync licensing income rises 19.6% year-on-year.
2009 total recording industry revenues were £1,122.3m, u
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AIM and BPI have joined together to commission research into the carbon impact of a switch to digital promo delivery by the independent sector.
Conducted by industry organisation Julie’s Bicycle
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This year, Britain celebrated a hatrick. No, not the third time in a row that we failed to get beyond the opening stages of the World Cup.No, it was the third year in a row that the world's best sell
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Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive, said:
“We are delighted that the BBC Trust agreed that the case for closing 6 Music was unconvincing. The Trust’s initial findings support our case that 6 Music
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The Black British Music Congress, in conjunction with the BPI, are presenting the latest in their popular ‘Album Anatomy’ events dissecting the 1970s ground breaking album ‘Osibisa’, which catap
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24 May 2010 - The closure of BBC 6 Music would weaken the BBC’s compliance with its Charter requirements, failing current and future generations of British artists by removing a key national outlet fo
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13 May 2010 - Coldplay, La Roux, Sigur Ros, The Zutons and Delphic are amongst the latest artists to add their voices to the campaign against the proposed closure of radio station BBC 6 Music as a maj
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· Average price of a CD dips below £8 for the first time.
· 43.1% of the UK population aged 12+ bought music in 2009 – same as 2008.
· The number of people active in the digi
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May 7, 2010 – Hits from Blur, Gorillaz and Calvin Harris helped Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ for Nintendo Wii become the UK’s biggest-selling music game in 2009, with Nintendo’s Wii console also grabbing th
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May 5, 2010 – Best sellers by Lady Gaga, Paolo Nutini, Lily Allen and Robbie Williams confirmed the resurgence of pop in 2009 as new figures today showed that the genre had claimed its biggest share o
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· Total UK recorded music trade income rises 1.4% overall to £928.8m.
· Trade revenues from physical formats down 6.1% to £739.9m.
· Digital income now a fifth of total re
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April 19, 2010 - The BPI Sync Licensing Mission to Los Angeles has been postponed as a consequence of the disruption to air traffic from the Icelandic volcano. It is hoped that this will be reschedul
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Record industry body The BPI set out a series of significant concerns over the proposed closure of BBC 6 Music at a summit meeting held yesterday afternoon between senior figures in the UK music indus
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April 15, 2010 – Scottish superstar Susan Boyle’s multi-platinum selling album ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ and the release of The Beatles’ remastered back catalogue by EMI helped the UK maintain a strong shar
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Celebrities set to perform at Wimbledon Cannizaro Park Festival
Cheryl Cole impersonator, comedian Rufus Hound, will perform at the Wimbledon Cannizaro Park Festival this summer.
Other confirme
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April 8, 2010 – BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor welcomed the passage into law today of the Digital Economy Act as a key milestone in the development of the internet, which will help secure Britain’s
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BPI has organised a summit meeting between senior figures in the UK music industry and the BBC Trust to set out, face-to-face, significant concerns over the proposed closure of BBC 6 Music and the rat
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Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night has become the first album to hit the quarter of a million sales mark, the Official Charts Company can announce.
The album – which was released 18 months ago -
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In a letter published today in the Financial Times, the UK's major ISPs joined forces with Internet giants Google, eBay, Facebook and Yahoo to publicly demonstrate their opposition to a recent House o
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Digital music services could generate more than £100m of potential direct revenue for UK ISPs by 2013 according to a new study1 conducted by global industry analyst Ovum, commissioned on behalf of the
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Consumer Focus are putting out a piece of research this weekend that suggests that “most consumers do not know where they can buy music online” and arguing that this is a reason not to proceed with ac
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The BRIT Awards with MasterCard 2010 could be on the way to making chart history this weekend as Tuesday night's show-stopping rendition of "You Got The Dirtee Love" by Award winners for Best Album, F
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ANDRÉ RIEU - FROM WALTZING UP THE POP CHARTS TO PERFORMING AT THE AWARDS
MYLEENE KLASS HOSTS FOR A THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR
LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA RETURN
The UK’s recorded music association,
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Earls Court, London: The BRITs Awards 2010 proves yet again that it is the biggest and best Awards show in Europe. Hosted by comedian Peter Kay, this year’s ceremony celebrated the very best in Britis
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FOR THE FIRST TIME BRITs PERFORMANCE TO BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON iTUNES
As the most thrilling night in music looms, UK record labels’ body, the BPI can reveal that Dizzee Rascal and Florence & T
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New Three-Year Deal Takes one of UK’s Longest-Running Music Sponsorships into its 15th Year
London, UK, Thursday 11 February 2010 - MasterCard today pledged its continuing support for the British
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Search starts for the UK’s top school band
And the winning Class Act will pick up the best prize in British music – a BRIT Award!
Prime Minister Gordon Brown: “The judges will have a tough decis
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- Combined albums market down 3.5% overall in volume to 128.9m.
- 16.1m digital albums sold in 2009, 12.5% of albums market
- Singles market records best year – 152.7m singles sold, up 32.7% on 200
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Survey Shows Peer-to-peer use remains level, but other methods of illegal downloading on the rise
• Levels of illegal filesharing are not declining, despite significant media coverage on the iss
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2009 has already become the biggest ever year for UK singles with more than 117m sold to date, recorded music body the BPI today announced.
Driven by a strong release schedule and a burgeoning ra
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ROBBIE WILLIAMS TRIUMPHANTLY RETURNS TO THE BRITs TO PICK UP THE ‘OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC’ AWARD AT THE 30th BRIT AWARDS
The UK’s recorded music association, The BPI, today
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The importance of supporting the next generation of creative talent was highlighted today during a visit to the BRIT School in Croydon by Lord Mandelson, Business Secretary, and Ben Bradshaw,
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This year’s BPI Annual Conference for members (ACM) looked at the digital market for music with contributions from Paul Brindley of Music Ally and Paul Brown of Spotify UK. In addition a panel consist
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Date Unveiled For The Biggest Night In British Music
Brits Nominations Launch Moves To Indigo2 On Monday 18 January
www.brits.co.uk
UK recorded music industry association, th
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People considering a career in the music industry can now access a comprehensive, online reference directory of academic and vocational opportunities for 2009/10 launched today - the Music Education D
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Thank you very much. Now Tony, I know you're something of a Renaissance man - well Mike Batt tells me you're that old - so you will know that this year is the 150th anniversary of the publication of
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I warmly welcome you to the BPI’s 2009 Annual General Meeting. Thank you to all of you who have taken the time out of your busy working days to be with us this afternoon. A
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- New business models help grow revenues from non-unit sales of music by 7% to £195m
- Record labels now generate 18% of income from outside physical format and digital retail sales
- B
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Napster was the Rosetta Stone of digital music. Until its release in 1999, few people understood the long term significance of turning sound waves into ones and noughts. Yes, the CD had introduced g
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Strong May sales see digital albums break 15% market share milestone for first time
UK album sales recorded a 21.9% increase on the previous week as an attractive line-up of Dad-themed compilation
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Amongst all the viewpoints on Digital Britain, it would be easy to miss that our industry has won a huge battle of principle. Government has accepted our case that ISPs are the natural control point
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Broadcaster and presenter, Jonathan Ross OBE, five times Sony Radio Academy Award gold winner and holder of three BAFTAs, is to be honoured with the prestigious Music Industry Trusts’ Award.
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A 33 year-old man believed to have links with a group leaking pre-release music on to file-sharing networks was arrested in Portsmouth on Tuesday, June 16, following a joint enquiry by BPI and IFPI, r
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BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor embraced the confirmation of new legislation requiring Ofcom and ISPs (internet service providers) to significantly reduce illegal filesharing, but described the failu
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Commenting on the Universal Music Virgin Media deal announced today, Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive said:
“It is very encouraging to see an ISP and a record label working together as creative p
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As part of the BRIT Trust’s partnership with the Football Foundation’s Kickz scheme, young people in the West Midlands will be mixing music at West Bromwich Albion’s Community programme. £9,800.00 of
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The 30th edition of the BPI Statistical handbook, published today, reveals that the UK’s digital music market is developing at breakneck pace, with new business models delivering impressive improvemen
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Speaking at a joint meeting of the Federation of Entertainment Unions, UK Film Council and BAFTA on the future of the creative industries, BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor outlined how the music busin
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A new BPI report published today shows UK artists’ share of US and Canadian music markets has risen significantly - and for the fourth year in a row. More than one in ten albums sold in North America
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Following the approval by the French National Assembly of the government’s “Creation and Internet Law” to promote and protect the distribution of works on the internet, the BPI has urged Ministers to
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BPI is pleased to announced the appointment of Adam Liversage to the role of Director of Communications at the BPI. Adam is currently Head of Corporate Media Relations for BT, and will bring to the B
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Commenting on the lack of agreement on the proposed Term Directive at the European Union Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) in Brussels this morning, the leaders of the Musicians Union,
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New figures released today by UK record labels association the BPI show that, despite challenging trading conditions, 2008’s strong release schedule and expanding digital retail sector helped the musi
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The Music Producers Guild (UK) and the UK’s recorded music industry trade association, The BPI, are coordinating their respective Awards events to recognise the enormous contribution that recording pr
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Today marks the birth of UKMusic – a new umbrella organisation representing the collective interest of the UK’s commercial music industry, from artists, musicians, songwriters and composers, to major
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The Official Charts Company (OCC) is taking the first steps towards tracking new areas of music consumption, with the launch of what is believed to be the world's first music subscription chart.
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A counterfeiter of luxury goods, music and movie DVDs in south east London has been sent to prison for three years following a hearing at Blackfriars Crown Court on 8 September.
Officers from L
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Like most music fans of my age, I spent my teens and early twenties building a massive music collection, because the ownership of records, and later CDs, was important to me. I wanted to enjoy my musi
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This interview, with David Wood, Director of Anti Piracy, BPI, appears in the forthcoming summer edition of the IFPI’s Right Track magazine.
David runs the BPI’s anti-piracy team of 12: comprising
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UK record labels’ association BPI today reached a groundbreaking agreement with major internet service providers (ISPs) and government on measures to help significantly reduce illegal filesharing.
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Joint memorandum of understanding on an approach to reduce unlawful file-sharing
This voluntary MOU between key stakeholders from the ISP industry, the content industries, OFCOM and the Government la
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The UK recorded music industry's association the BPI and independent labels body the Association of Independent Music (AIM) today praised the role the Nationwide Mercury Prize plays in showcasing new
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UK record companies association the BPI today welcomed the European Commission’s proposal decision to extend the term of copyright on sound recordings to 95 years.
Creative works are protected by c
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Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive
Speech to BPI AGM, 9th July 2008
Introduction
Ladies and Gentlemen, members, friends; thank you very much indeed for joining us at our Annual General
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BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor delivered a speech on the role of record labels in the digital age to an audience at London Calling 2008 today [Friday 20 June 2008]. He then answered questions from M
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Tony Wadsworth, BPI Chairman
Speech to BPI AGM, 9th July 2008
Music Affects
It’s a good thing now and again to review the way you work, the way you spend your time on certain things as oppose
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UK record labels’ trade body the BPI today announced a deal to provide independent record labels with discounted access to chart data.
The Official Charts Company, co-owned by the BPI and retailers
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- New types of artist deal help grow additional income by 13.8% to £121.6m as new business models generate higher returns for British music companies
- Record labels now generate 11.4% of income
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Education through partnership is the first stage to creating an internet where music’s value is recognised and rewarded, says BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor.
Bill Thompson’s critique of the new e
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Virgin Media and the BPI today announced a new education campaign to help Virgin Media’s broadband customers safely download music from the internet and avoid the risk of legal action.
As part of
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UK record labels’ body the BPI has given its backing to a global campaign that was launched today by children’s internet charity Childnet, with support from the international music industry. The camp
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On April 8th, the UK music industry, as represented by the Music Business Group [MBG], delivered its collective response to the proposed changes to copyright exceptions as recommended by Andrew Gowers
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The Premier League and British music companies have teamed up to invest in young talent in football and music. The BRIT Trust – the charitable arm of the BPI, which represents UK record labels – has
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