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British designer Matthew Williamson unveils the 2026 BRIT Awards trophy, inspired by Manchester’s worker bee. The BRITs move to Manchester’s Co-op Live on 28 Feb 2026.
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Sam Fender wins the 2025 Mercury Prize for People Watching, as the awards move to Newcastle for the first time, celebrating the year’s best British & Irish music.
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BPI leaders urge government support for UK music businesses and IP and political figures celebrate British music at the BPI Silent Disco.
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The BPI today announces a set of principles for UK labels to support legacy artists, songwriters, and session musicians. The principles deliver a package of measures, unique to the UK, developed in consultation with the government-convened Creator Remuneration Working Group (CRWG), and represent the culmination of five years of rigorous analysis and debate in response to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Report on The Economics of Music Streaming.
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As part of its ongoing work to promote equality and inclusion in music, ‘Women in the Music Industry’ on 8th March will celebrate the women that help to power our industry.
The UK Music Diversity Survey 2020 launches.
UK Music, today, publishes the results of the first pan-industry workforce diversity survey of the music industry focusing on gender and ethnicity.
