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To almost no-one's surprise, Taylor Swift dominated the UK music charts in 2025. The star's 12th album, The Life of a ...

The UK recorded music industry grew for the 11th consecutive year at a respectable 4.9% in 2025, according to the latest data ...

British breakthrough artists have led a British music revival as the UK recorded music market grew for an 11th consecutive ...

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MTV offshoots like MTV Music and MTV Live reportedly went off air in the United Kingdom. It ended where it began, playing "Video Killed the Radio Star." ...

On 25 August, the band Massive Attack performed to around 34,000 fans as part of an all-day live music festival in Bristol, UK. Nothing unusual in that — in many parts of the world, summer calendars ...

What it means to be a music fan is changing quickly—particularly across the Atlantic. Our favorite artists are often an ocean away, so we stream their concerts online, tune in to live social media ...

MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live in the UK went out just as the original music video channel began: with ...

MTV UK will stop showing rolling music videos when it shutters its five channels at the end of the year, according to reports. The channel launched in 1981 in the US and the first video to be aired ...

Plug Music, the music management, distribution, publishing, and licensing arm of The Plug, has teamed up with the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music, the UK music royalty collective, to ...

On this day (April 17) in 1971, all four former members of the Beatles had songs on the UK Singles Chart. A little more than a year after the Fab Four announced they were going their separate ways, ...