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From the label of the same name, stock focuses on house, disco, avant-garde, minimalism, and punk 

A new record store, Ergot Records, has opened in Manhattan's East Village, New York, run by the label of the same name. 

The shop is...

RIAA figures also show that sales of vinyl rose 8% on the previous year...

A report by The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has shown that 75% of music revenue made in the retail sector within the US...

Revenue generated by streaming services is slowly bringing the music industry back on track says a report published by The Verge.

According to figures...

First-half recording revenues of the year grew 18% to $5.4 billion

The U.S. music industry is expected to generate $10 billion this year.

Taken from the same report that found that vinyl sales are to take...

The second-hand market continues to grow...

Vinyl's resurgence could be much bigger than we first thought, as industry figures don't count used-record sales.

According to new US data revealed by Forbes...

Wax brought in £57.1million last year... 

Vinyl makes more revenue for the British music industry than YouTube, according to a new report by the Entertainment Retailer's Association (ERA). 

Income from the...

Physical formats make up less than 10% of the revenue

Streaming accounted for 80% of recording revenues in the U.S. in 2019, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reports.

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Overall sales jumped to $467million, but comparisons with the previous year are skewed as a result of the pandemic

Revenue from vinyl sales grew by 94% in the US during the first half of 2021, according to the latest mid-year report by the Recording...

UK labels are expecting to earn more from vinyl than CDs for the first time in three decades

Vinyl sales contributed £86.5 million to the UK’s recorded music revenue in 2020, a new report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has revealed. 

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The King of Pop has been dethroned... 

Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ is no longer the USA’s top-selling LP of all-time, having been usurped by legendary rockers, The Eagles. 

While the 1982 pop masterpiece...

Its the group's first shows in over a decade

The Fugees have announced a world tour to celebrate 25 years of ‘The Score’.

Marking the release of the iconic 1996 record, and their first...

DJ Empress and Ida Engberg recently shared their accounts on social media

Two well-known DJs, DJ Empress and Ida Engberg, have published detailed personal testimonials on social media alleging that they were sexually assaulted or had their...

Only 13% of UK festival headliners in 2022 are women, study finds

BBC Newsbeat's new gender-focused study of UK festival line-ups finds that little has changed since 2017

A new study of UK festivals by BBC Newsbeat has found that only 13% of 2022's headliners are women. A gender-focused analysis of 50 UK...

Born in Jamaica around half a century ago, dancehall music has found fans, artists and chart-topping success all around the globe in the decades since...

Dancehall music has been the driving force in my career. As a DJ, I’ve played most if not all genres of music on radio and...

As part of our special edition on fighting racism and racial injustice in the dance music industry, we have collated alphabetical lists of collectives, organisations...

We will be updating this as a live directory, so welcome recommendations for additions. Please send to [email protected] Organisations working to benefit the Black and...