D-Block Europe make chart history with more Top 10 albums of any British rap act – Music News

D-Block Europe, Mark Owen, 5SOS, Sports Team in four-way charge for the UK’s top album - Music News

D-Block Europe net a seventh Top 10 album with DBE World today (6). The South London duo’s latest mixtape joins 2019’s Home Alone (6) and PTSD (4), 2020 release Street Trauma (9) and The Blue […]

Tom Grennan closes show for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone – Music News

Tom Grennan closes show for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone - Music News

Silverstone’s new-look music offering for the 2023 Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix brought in record crowds, as fans flocked to see four extraordinary nights of live music from a stellar line-up of global artists. […]

British driver joins Black Eyed Peas on stage as the party continues at Silverstone – Music News

British driver joins Black Eyed Peas on stage as the party continues at Silverstone - Music News

Last night will.i.am’s Black Eyed Peas were next to take to the expanded music arena at Silverstone, following Cat Burns, Jess Glynne, Calvin Harris and Jax Jones who have already performed over the weekend. The […]

Maisie Peters becomes youngest British female solo artist in almost a decade to score Number 1 album – Music News

Maisie Peters becomes youngest British female solo artist in almost a decade to score Number 1 album - Music News

Maisie Peters flies straight to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with The Good Witch, becoming the youngest British female solo artist in nine years to celebrate a Number 1 album. 23-year-old Maisie’s second […]

Olivia Dean: Messy review – hackneyed British soul tropes do singer a disservice | Music

Olivia Dean: Messy album art

At first, Brit school alumna Olivia Dean’s debut album Messy feels worryingly like another addition to the catalogue marked “stage school to neo-soul crooner”. There are horns, shuffling 60s rhythms and artificial vinyl crackling, just […]

Windrush at 75: How Caribbean culture dominated British music – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph | Society

Photograph: Ollie Millington

Archive: Station Noailles Marseille, Thames News, Rinse FM ContributorsLloyd Bradley – music journalistSandra Cross – singer and songwriterD Double E – Grime artist MusicLord Invader – Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back The Old Cat-O-Nine) (1992, […]

British Music Industry Releases ‘Get Paid Guide’ for Music Creators

music creators get paid

Photo Credit: PRS For Music The UK music industry and government have released the much-anticipated ‘Get Paid Guide’ for music creators to help demystify music metadata. The Get Paid Guide provides songwriters, composers, and artists with quick […]

‘Touch mic and shell it!’ How British freestyle rap videos became a global phenomenon | Music

‘It was almost ridiculed’ … Charlie Sloth, left, with Bugzy Malone.

A bright afternoon has turned a foreboding shade of grey. The rain picked up a few moments ago, just as cameraman Barry Edmunds was negotiating an awkward set of steps, backwards, trying to squeeze Kairo […]

British Regulators Block $68.7B Microsoft/Activision Acquisition

CMA blocks Microsoft Activision acquisition

Photo Credit: Alexandru Acea UK regulators have blocked Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of the video game giant Activision. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) analyzed more than 3 million Microsoft and Activision documents […]

‘We paved the way for the Rolling Stones’: Ottilie Patterson, the forgotten first lady of British blues | Blues

Ottilie Patterson (left) and Sister Rosetta Tharpe rehearsing at the Marquee Club, London in 1960.

The late British jazz singer George Melly used to ask his audiences: “Who is the greatest blues vocalist Britain has ever produced?” He’d tease them, asking, “Mick Jagger? No! Steve Winwood? No! Van Morrison? No!”, […]

The British Government Focuses on Smart Speakers & UK Radio

british government smart speakers

Photo Credit: Kevin Bhagat The British government may force Google & Amazon smart speakers to offer UK radio stations for free amid new broadcasting legislation. Under draft legislation published today, the biggest broadcasters in the UK will […]

Bye-bye American pie: high price of visas keeps British musicians off US tours | UK news

Fergus McCreadie in a button-down shirt and tie, with a slight beard and his long hair in a bun, looking serious

“Breaking” America has been the goal of young British musicians since the days of Beatlemania, but that dream is being dashed. Hundreds of emerging artists could be affected by plans to hike visa fees by […]