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07/02/2024

Truly chilling.

A report warns the music industry is a "boys' club" where sexual harassment and abuse is common.

07/02/2024

Historic News in the Music Industry! The 'Seat at the Table 2024' report is out now, marking a significant milestone with 52% representation of women on UK music trade body boards. Let's celebrate progress and keep driving positive change together! .

Key Findings:

52% of board members across UK music trade bodies are women, up from 32% in 2020.

16% of board members are women from a global majority background, up from 3% in 2020.

100% of the organisations featured have increased gender representation on their boards.

Over 55% of organisations have achieved 50% gender representation on their boards.



Additional Findings:

45% of Chief Executives across UK music trade bodies are women. Up from 18% in 2020.

27% of Chairs across UK Music Trade Bodies are women, including 18% from a global majority background. This is up from 0% in 2020 and 9% in 2021

Over 50% of executive teams are composed of women and/or non-binary individuals.

29/12/2023

Thirty-seven years ago, had their first #1 song with the iconic . It finished 1986 as the #1 song on the Billboard charts and was the first number one of 1987. It gave the band world wide fame, and showed a generation of women that they could write and perform music. )

25/12/2023

Happy holidays whatever you celebrate or don't celebrate! Thank you for your support and here's to another awesome year. We close of the festivities with a shot from

21/12/2023

Anyone seen the new movie ? Some of our friends on the of have already watched in and are raving. It is hard to believe that we lost this year.

19/12/2023

Just an homage to the late, great, irreplaceable . They simply do not come as amazing as you, queen, anymore.

14/12/2023

Hope you are having a festival holiday season. Just wanted to share the many looks of to inspire some cheer. Let us all blast "She Works Hard For The Money" and raise a glass to all the grind we have put in during 2023.

06/12/2023

Today would have been Sinead O'Connor's 57th birthday. Lets love, support and hold up our brave badass queens while they are with us. Tell your friend, boss, mom, aunt that you love her and that she inspires you. We love you always Sinead and are forever beholden to your bravery.

04/12/2023

It does not really sound or feel like the holidays until you have heard by . You may know their festive track, but this group also did the provocative , an early '80s staple on the radio station as well as the theme song to the tv show .

01/12/2023

This is a picture of our 's gorgeous cousin Melvin. Melvin died of AIDS in the early 1980s. As today is , please take a minute to remember all of the folks who we lost- an entire generation!- to this devasting, horrible disease. It was not that long ago, yet so much has changed. This is one of the only pictures Jen's family has left of Melvin after a fire burned down the family home a couple years ago.

28/11/2023

Early , there was a 'movement' or trend or whatever you want to call it, of mid-tempo, jazz-infused records and artists coming out on the scene. As there always needs to be a label for every micro-genre, this one got dubbed "neosoul." Some of the best modern albums arguably came out of this small era, like pretty much everything by and . The debut record by is right there with them as well. The idea of having pride in your own natural beauty is a message we hear a lot today, but arguably don't see. This album and artist are all about that. More, please.