View all newsletters
Sign up for our free email newsletters

Fighting for quality news media in the digital age.

  1. Archive content
July 10, 2003updated 17 May 2007 11:30am

Revamped Music Week champions British talent

By Press Gazette

Music Week is hoping to raise its profile by repositioning itself and championing more new British talent.

The move comes as the title unveils its biggest overhaul in more than 10 years in response to major changes sweeping the music industry.

The title wants to widen its presence among artists and companies in recorded music and publishing, radio and TV, focusing more on in-depth analysis of the challenges facing the music business and emerging trends.

It has also pledged to make more effort to promote new artists, tracking them from pre-signing through to the hit making process – including A&R, promotion, marketing and sales.

Instead of running four or five front-page stories, the cover now features just the splash and a picture. Inside there is more opinion and profiles, while the chart listings and data, previously spread throughout the magazine, has been moved to a new 13-page section at the back called Data File.

Editor-in-chief Ajax Scott said the coverage would be more “media relevant” for radio controllers and music critics, with articles on new revenue streams and the use of music in advertising. “There is a revival in UK music at the moment. There will be more of an edge to the news and more focus on bigger stories,” he told Press Gazette.

Content from our partners
MHP Group's 30 To Watch awards for young journalists open for entries
How PA Media is helping newspapers make the digital transition
Publishing on the open web is broken, how generative AI could help fix it

The overhaul also includes the launch of a website, musicweek.com. The subscriber-only site features the latest sales charts, an extended range of radio and TV airplay charts and playlists as well as info on new releases. It also contains a news archive from Music Week and access to the full database of 15,000 contacts featured in its annual directory.

By Ruth Addicott

Email pged@pressgazette.co.uk to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our "Letters Page" blog

Select and enter your email address Weekly insight into the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. Essential reading for media leaders every Thursday. Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Sent at around 10am UK time. Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. A fortnightly update from the front-line of news and advertising. Aimed at marketers and those involved in the advertising industry.
  • Business owner/co-owner
  • CEO
  • COO
  • CFO
  • CTO
  • Chairperson
  • Non-Exec Director
  • Other C-Suite
  • Managing Director
  • President/Partner
  • Senior Executive/SVP or Corporate VP or equivalent
  • Director or equivalent
  • Group or Senior Manager
  • Head of Department/Function
  • Manager
  • Non-manager
  • Retired
  • Other
Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications.
Thank you

Thanks for subscribing.

Websites in our network