Music Week Magazine July 2021 Anne-Marie Debbie Harry Blondie

Music Week is delighted to reveal Anne-Marie as the cover star of our new monthly print edition.

In 2018, Anne-Marie’s Speak Your Mind was the UK’s biggest breakthrough success story, soaring into the Top 3 and becoming the year’s top-selling debut album. Now, she returns with Therapy, an intensely personal record that is set to take 2021 by storm. Music Week meets the down to earth star, plus Atlantic’s Ed Howard, manager Jazz Sherman and Sony Music Publishing's David Ventura, Tim Major and Chimene Mantori to tell its story...

For The Music Week Interview, AIM CEO Paul Pacifico joins us in an extensive one-to-one covering streaming,the AIM Awards, diversity, Brexit and, of course, the pandemic, and explains how the indie music scene has kept pace every step of the way. Plus, AIM chair and Women In CTRL founder Nadia Khan talks about how they plan on making a real difference to the music industry...

On top of that, and following its recent launch of high-definition sound experience Spatial Audio, Apple Music has pledged not only to change the way we hear music, but alter the way it is made altogether. It’s all part of the company’s push to plot a new course for streaming, radio and perhaps even the music industry itself. In a huge feature, Music Week meets Zane Lowe and George Ergatoudis to explore the future of their business. Plus! GRM Daily founder Koby ‘Posty’ Hagan tells us how the platform’s new Apple Music Radio show can boost UK rap.

Also inside, we gather a host of promoters, agents, managers, venues and labels to dissect the sector’s greatest hopes and fears as they look towards 2022 and what if, with huge numbers of artists wanting to tour, the market hit saturation point.

Elsewhere, as she prepares to release her excellent new album Stand For Myself, Grammy-nominated sensation Yola and her team at Concord and Neverno Management, tell us about her incredible 20-year journey from the Bristol music scene to working in Nashville with The Black Keys and acting in the new Baz Luhrmann film.

Also preparing to release a new record is Jake Bugg, who has stepped outside of his comfort zone on imminent fifth album Saturday Night, Sunday Morning – uniting with some of the hottest songwriters in the world like Steve Mac and Ali Tamposi for his first outing on RCA Records. In our feature, the prolific singer/songwriter, label boss David Dollimore and longtime manager Keith Armstrong offer Music Week a glimpse into the surprising next phase of a unique voice in British music.

Plus! Music Week joins BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Jamz Supernova who has become a true force of nature in the UK music industry as a DJ, broadcaster and record label boss. To celebrate her 10th year in the business, Music Week meets her to talk alternative culture, Black music and independence. Also inside, from pairing Post Malone and Monster Energy to Bad Bunny and Adidas, UTA’s brand partnerships department have been hugely important for artists since the onset of the pandemic. Here, the talent agency’s Toni Wallace, Alisann Blood and Cleo Thompson reveal all about a fresh and fast-developing revenue stream...

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