4 April 2022
Category All News, General News, Music Industry
UK Music Calls On Creators To Contribute To Survey To Help Understand State of The Music Industry in 2021 UK Music today launched a survey for creators that it hopes will give them a better understanding of the economic landscape of…
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9 July 2020
Category All News, Music Industry
MUSIC PRODUCTION GUIDANCE PUBLISHED TO ENABLE PROFESSIONAL MUSIC PRODUCTION TO RESTART WITH CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY *** UPDATED Version 6.0 5th October 2020*** Music organisations AIM (Association of Independent Music), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), MPG (Music Producers Guild) and…
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22 January 2020
Category All News, Campaigns, MPG Activity, Music Industry, Shared Parental Leave and Pay
CULTURE MINISTER “NOT RULING OUT” MORE HELP FOR SELF-EMPLOYED MPs, UK Music Members and MPG Executive Director after the Westminster Hall debate MPG Executive Director, Olga FitzRoy, together with UK Music members, yesterday attended a Westminster Hall debate…
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19 November 2019
Category Music Industry
Ed Cherney, such a sad loss . . . “We first met in Los Angeles around an AES Convention in 1996. Like many of our friends and colleagues, I was shocked and deeply saddened to hear that Ed Cherney has…
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15 June 2019
Category Music Industry
The Writer Producer Fund offers an opportunity for songwriters and writer-producers working in popular musicgenres to further develop their careers and writing/production credits with grants of up to £10,000. Launched in 2017 as a response to the long-term career needs…
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5 June 2019
Category Music Industry
Industry launches survey to assess impact of PledgeMusic collapse on UK artists As organisations who want to see the music industry thrive, we are deeply disappointed that PledgeMusic has announced its bankruptcy leaving artists and fans out of pocket…
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28 February 2019
Category Music Industry
CEO of UK Music, Michael Daughter, today pays tribute to veteran recording engineer and MPG Award winner, Geoff Emerick, in advance of tonight’s annual MPG Awards event at Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. Read the full story here: ukmusic.org/news/uk-musichttps://www.ukmusic.org/news/uk-music-ceo-michael-dugher-pays-tribute-to-geoff-emerick
14 December 2018
Category Music Industry
URGENT: Despite all the objections and the technical assessments, Hackney council have STILL recommended that the planning committee grant consent to the application. You need to act now! Strongroom Studiosin East London is in need of your help, threatened by a…
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5 September 2018
Category Music Industry
This week is crunch time for Music and our livelihoods. 12th September will see a crucial vote on the EU Copyright Directive, which aims to update current legislation and address the balance between billion-pound content platforms, and the meagre profit passed…
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30 August 2018
Category Music Industry
As part of the Music Producers Guild’s campaign: Credit Where Credit Is Due, we bring you all the latest news on developments in software and on-line activity designed to make sure that your work in music production is fully acknowledged….
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8 August 2018
Category Music Industry
(later revisions here: https://www.mpg.org.uk/news/credit-where-credit-is-due-latest-on-credits/) Remember our discovery of the RIN-M plug-in? – It fitted perfectly with our ‘Credit Where Credit Is Due’ campaign because it enables you to create a simple data file during recording or mixing in which to…
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2 January 2018
Category Music Industry
John Dent of LOUD Mastering sadly passed away on 29th December 2017. He was one of the top mastering engineers of his generation and the worthy recipient of the 2014 MPG Mastering Engineer Of The Year Award. John’s funeral, followed…
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8 November 2017
Category Music Industry
Finally, it looks like someone has been paying attention. The MPG’s ‘Credit Where Credit Is Due’ campaign has been lobbying for better logging of production credits in downloadable digital music files for several years now, and a forward-thinking software company…
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2 November 2017
Category Music Industry
We just can’t keep our hands off the industry’s top awards. Following quickly after the domination of the Mercury Prize by MPG members, lo and behold: we’re all over the Abbey Road-sponsored A&R Awards too – organised by Tim Ingham’s…
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24 October 2017
Category Music Industry
The Music Producers Guild proudly supports the Love Music, Hate Racism campaign and encourages all members to visit the LMHR website and show their support by signing up. By doing this, MPG members will be part of reigniting a national movement against…
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2 October 2017
Category Music Industry
The Writer Producer Fund offers an opportunity for songwriters and writer-producers working in popular music genres to further develop their careers and writing/production credits with grants of up to £10,000. The Writer Producer Fund is delivered by PRS Foundation in…
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6 September 2017
Category Music Industry
There will be a public hearing to discuss the implications of the planning application for AIR Studios and we encourage all those affected by this decision to take part. Dates: 26th & 27th September 2017 Start time: 10am Venue: Council Offices,…
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18 May 2017
Category Music Industry
The Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Limited (MCPS), the UK collection society that licenses mechanical copyrights on behalf of over 26,000 music publisher and composer members, has announced a long term administration deal with PRS. On 1st April 2016 MCPS published…
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16 January 2017
Category Music Industry
I was very sad to read the news today of the death of UK recording engineer, Bill Price. I met him only a few times, but was always impressed. He was a legend, known to many in the UK, having…
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11 January 2017
Category Music Industry
UK Music have released the following press release about diversity in the UK music industry: Workforce diversity in the British music industry 09/01/2017 London, UK: UK Music, today, publishes the results of the first pan-industry workforce diversity survey of the…
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