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🚨 Nominations are OPEN 🚨

The 2026 Music Week Women In Music Awards are back and this year we’re introducing a couple of exciting new categories 👀✨

Click the link in bio to find out more and to submit your entry.

#MWWIM

🚨 Nominations are OPEN 🚨

The 2026 Music Week Women In Music Awards are back and this year we’re introducing a couple of exciting new categories 👀✨

Click the link in bio to find out more and to submit your entry.

#MWWIM

🚨 Nominations are OPEN 🚨

The 2026 Music Week Women In Music Awards are back and this year we’re introducing a couple of exciting new categories 👀✨

Click the link in bio to find out more and to submit your entry.

#MWWIM

A couple of years after its release, End Of Beginning by Stranger Things actor Joe ‘Djo’ Keery (@djotime) finally completed its slow-burn rise to No.1 this January.

In our latest installment of Hitmakers, we speak to the song’s co-producer Adam Thein (@theinada) about honing in on a nostalgic ’80s sound, teary fans, and the “surreal” way the song has resonated globally...

Read in the new issue and on musicweek.com now!

✍️ : @colleenlharris

#djo #endofbeginning #hitmakers

Today, we’re proud to announce that nominations are officially open for the 2026 Music Week Women In Music Awards ✨

Organised in association with @aim_uk and @_ukmusic, the awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of women and female-identifying professionals across the music industry.

Submit your nominations now, link in bio 🎶 #MWWIM

Fresh from releasing the blistering single Superman and supporting @5sos on a UK/European arena tour, @southarcade are a band on the rise. In our latest installment of On The Radar, we hear from the Oxford quartet about taking a hands-on approach with their career, signing stateside to @AtlanticRecords in partnership with the UK’s @bkm_artists, battling seasickness, and much more...

Read it in the new issue and on musicweek.com now!
✍️: @alex.rigatoni
#southarcade

Celebrating five years of partnership between Music Week and @girlsirate 💫 In 2020, we came together for a landmark takeover curated by Carla Marie Williams MBE (@carlamarieuk) on the cover, creating space for conversations, visibility tips and real change within the music industry.

That moment went on to spark Mentor Me, a platform that has since delivered 60 curated articles featuring insights, advice and lived experiences from some of the industry’s most influential executives, creatives and change-makers.

“I wish I’d had it when I started out,” @spotify’s @iamsafiya reflects alongside other participants in the new issue of Music Week — out now. “A huge thank you to Carla for the support she’s given not only to women coming into the industry, but also to those of us that she’s uplifted through community and friendship.”

Music Week’s editor-in-chief Geroge Garner says: “We believe that creating platforms like this is essential, because too many women still go unseen, unheard and unsupported across the industry.”

And, as Carla Marie concludes, “This is about progress, not gatekeeping.”

Here’s to five years of collaboration, community and continuing to open doors for women in music.

#womeninmusic #mentorme #gir10years #girlsirate #musicweek

@kasabianofficial are back and chasing their eighth consecutive No.1 album with Act III. With their huge headline show at Finsbury Park fast approaching, we meet the band’s inimitable leader Serge Pizzorno, plus co-manager John Coyne and @columbiauk president @dparmar031, for a conversation that traces two decades in rock, overcoming adversity and why, in 2026, music “has to be wild, otherwise, who cares?”

Read in the new issue and on musicweek.com now!

✍️: @lisaannewright
📸: @neil_bedford

#kasabian

@ines.dunn was one of the stars of the show at the Music Week Women In Music Awards last year when she added the Music Creative – Spirit Of The Studio gong to her growing list of accolades.

In the new issue of Music Week, we dive into the mind of a hitmaker who has worked with @maisiehpeters, @mimiiiwebb and more, and get her takes on songwriting, AI and representation. Oh, and read on about @lewiscapaldi “moshing it up” and playing darts at her family BBQ…

Read the full interview in print and on musicweek.com now!

✍️: @anna_fielding

@ines.dunn was one of the stars of the show at the Music Week Women In Music Awards last year when she added the Music Creative – Spirit Of The Studio gong to her growing list of accolades.

In the new issue of Music Week, we dive into the mind of a hitmaker who has worked with @maisiehpeters, @mimiiiwebb and more, and get her takes on songwriting, AI and representation. Oh, and read on about @lewiscapaldi “moshing it up” and playing darts at her family BBQ…

Read the full interview in print and on musicweek.com now!

✍️: @anna_fielding

In our new issue, @pizza_rhea, holds court on her journey through the industry, which has led to heading up West Coast A&R at @rxsongs and managing hitmaker @iamstephjones.

“Getting women of all different backgrounds in the studio together is just so powerful,” Pasricha Kullas told us. “It’s really important to keep amplifying those voices and making sure that they’re heard. When I was growing up, there wasn’t really an Indian woman in music that I could point to and be like, ‘Yes, that’s who I want to be.’ I’m not saying it needs to be me, but I would love to see more forward-facing people in music – as artists, writers, producers and creatives – being able to be that shining light for a little girl in Michigan wanting to get into music.”

The exec also launched a fierce defence of songwriters’ rights.

“All songwriters have to live off of is their publishing share,” she said. “They don’t have any other revenue source. I’m super, hyper-protective of that. Every which way, I think they’re getting the short end of the stick, and it’s just not fair. And, quite frankly, this industry is nothing without songs.”

Read the full interview in print and online now #musicindustry #songwriting #musicpublishing

✍️: @karen.bliss

In our new issue, @pizza_rhea, holds court on her journey through the industry, which has led to heading up West Coast A&R at @rxsongs and managing hitmaker @iamstephjones.

“Getting women of all different backgrounds in the studio together is just so powerful,” Pasricha Kullas told us. “It’s really important to keep amplifying those voices and making sure that they’re heard. When I was growing up, there wasn’t really an Indian woman in music that I could point to and be like, ‘Yes, that’s who I want to be.’ I’m not saying it needs to be me, but I would love to see more forward-facing people in music – as artists, writers, producers and creatives – being able to be that shining light for a little girl in Michigan wanting to get into music.”

The exec also launched a fierce defence of songwriters’ rights.

“All songwriters have to live off of is their publishing share,” she said. “They don’t have any other revenue source. I’m super, hyper-protective of that. Every which way, I think they’re getting the short end of the stick, and it’s just not fair. And, quite frankly, this industry is nothing without songs.”

Read the full interview in print and online now #musicindustry #songwriting #musicpublishing

✍️: @karen.bliss

“Artist management is one of the hardest areas of the music industry,” declares Chris Dempsey in a brand new and exclusive interview with Music Week. “We’re expected to be everything from chief strategist to amateur psychologist and everything in between. There’s a greater reliance on us to do A&R, marketing, to execute and strategise in areas that traditionally five or 10 years ago record labels would have taken the lead in.”

Dempsey, founder of @corduroyartists, relishes the workload.

“I’ve absolutely loved it,” he told us. “The past year has been unbelievable. I’m really proud of the roster we’ve built – it’s come [together] really naturally. I didn’t set my stall out to build a roster in an aggressive way; I was really happy setting up with Take That and Katherine Jenkins and then we quickly added Gracie Friel, Gabriella Cilmi, Somebody’s Child, Amy Sergeant… It’s been a really natural flow.”

Read the full interview - in which he talks about AI, ticketing, new @takethat music and more - in our new issue and online now! #musicindustry #management #takethat

✍️: @niallmdoherty
📸: @paulharries

“Artist management is one of the hardest areas of the music industry,” declares Chris Dempsey in a brand new and exclusive interview with Music Week. “We’re expected to be everything from chief strategist to amateur psychologist and everything in between. There’s a greater reliance on us to do A&R, marketing, to execute and strategise in areas that traditionally five or 10 years ago record labels would have taken the lead in.”

Dempsey, founder of @corduroyartists, relishes the workload.

“I’ve absolutely loved it,” he told us. “The past year has been unbelievable. I’m really proud of the roster we’ve built – it’s come [together] really naturally. I didn’t set my stall out to build a roster in an aggressive way; I was really happy setting up with Take That and Katherine Jenkins and then we quickly added Gracie Friel, Gabriella Cilmi, Somebody’s Child, Amy Sergeant… It’s been a really natural flow.”

Read the full interview - in which he talks about AI, ticketing, new @takethat music and more - in our new issue and online now! #musicindustry #management #takethat

✍️: @niallmdoherty
📸: @paulharries

As he prepares to release his debut album @mylessmithuk speaks to us in a brand new cover story about his friendship with @edsheeran and the sage advice the superstar has given him. Smith recalls Sheeran’s guidance about resisting the pressure to chase hit after hit: “He said, ‘Don’t sweat it – if you were an artist that was going song to song, then I can see why you’re putting this pressure on yourself, but you’re building a career.”

“He said, ‘You’re going to have low moments and moments that peak, and you just have to take all of them in your stride,’” Smith recounts. “For me, it’s about, ‘Am I content in what I’m doing, am I being authentic and honest with myself, and am I making myself proud?’” Smith says his and Sheeran’s attitude to life is similar, and Sheeran tells him that he reminds him a lot of himself. “We’ve clicked because we connect as human beings, not as musicians,” Smith adds, putting his finger on why they’ve bonded so well.

Read the full feature — where Smith is joined by @teamextendedplay’s Eric Parker. @closerartists’ @lofthouse1982, @rcalabelgroupuk’s @glynaikins & @joe_iddison and @wme’s @craigdsouzaagent — to get the lowdown on backing a star like Smith, in print and online now!

Cover story:
✍️: @niallmdoherty
📸: @jrcmccord

#mylessmith

It’s been “super difficult”, says @mylessmithuk in our brand new cover story, to deal with the idea that the music he makes isn’t of Black origin. The British singer-songwriter was honoured when his hit, Nice To Meet You, was nominated for Song Of The Year at this year’s @moboawards .

“To get that recognition from a Black institution was a really nice tap on the shoulder, to be like, ‘You’re being seen and what you’re doing is incredible.’ That, for me, was super important,” continues Smith. He wishes there were more accessible routes into the music industry for people “who look like me and sound like me”.

Without his friends pushing him to keep going, or meeting his @teamextendedplay management, he thinks he wouldn’t have made it.

Read the full feature – in which we hear from Extended Play’s Eric Parker and Smith’s expanded management with @closerartists ’ @lofthouse1982, as well as warm words from @rcalabelgroupuk’s @glynaikins & @joe_iddison and @wme’s @craigdsouzaagent about how they’re backing Smith all the way – in print and online now!

Cover story:
✍️: @niallmdoherty
📸: @jrcmccord

#mylessmith

Honoured to have been named 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 for a second consecutive year at the Music Week Awards last week 💫

Thank you @musicweekinsta and @prsformusic

Honoured to have been named 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 for a second consecutive year at the Music Week Awards last week 💫

Thank you @musicweekinsta and @prsformusic

Honoured to have been named 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 for a second consecutive year at the Music Week Awards last week 💫

Thank you @musicweekinsta and @prsformusic