Thanks to our 2023 Sponsors
Association Partner
UK Music is an industry-funded body, established in October 2008, to represent the collective interests of the recorded, published and live arms of the British music industry. Through collective representation, UK Music promotes the interests of record labels and music publishers (major and independent), songwriters, composers, lyricists, musicians, managers, producers, promoters, venues and collection societies. Through member engagement we ensure a collective voice across the sector is identified. Through lobbying we ensure that voice is heard.
Association Partner
The Association of Independent Music (‘AIM’) is the trade body created by and for the UK’s independent recorded music community, providing a collective voice for this vibrant, entrepreneurial sector. AIM represents over 800 businesses from self-releasing artists and micro-labels to the largest and most well-respected global record labels. AIM represents and promotes its members globally and provides a range of services, enabling members to grow, grasp new opportunities and break into new markets, empowering and strengthening the sector. Representation, diversity and inclusion are inherent to all of AIM’s activities and is proud to be part of the Music Week ‘Women in Music Award'.
Category Sponsor
Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.
Category Sponsor
PRS for Music represents the rights of over 160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers in the UK and around the world. On behalf of its members, it works diligently to grow and protect the value of their rights and
ensure that creators are paid transparently and efficiently whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. In 2021, 27 trillion performances of music were reported to PRS for Music with £677m paid out in royalties to its members, making it one of the world’s leading music collective management organisations.
ensure that creators are paid transparently and efficiently whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. In 2021, 27 trillion performances of music were reported to PRS for Music with £677m paid out in royalties to its members, making it one of the world’s leading music collective management organisations.
Category Sponsor
Downtown Music Holdings is modernizing and transforming the global music ecosystem for rights holders worldwide. The largest music services platform in the world, our proprietary technology combined with our team’s expertise helps aspiring and globally recognized artists and songwriters and the business that represent them create, publish, distribute, manage, market, monetize and protect their music. Working with creators at every stage of their career, from emerging songwriters to iconic performers, we service over 20 million music assets from over 2 million global clients across six continents. A true partner to the industry, Downtown is committed to learning and growing with the constantly evolving needs of the music business.
Category Sponsor
Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.
Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million tracks, 5 million podcast titles, and 350,00 audiobooks on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with more than 551 million users, including 220 million subscribers in more than 180 markets.
Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million tracks, 5 million podcast titles, and 350,00 audiobooks on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with more than 551 million users, including 220 million subscribers in more than 180 markets.
Drinks Reception Sponsor
There’s too much music for any human to listen to all of it. Musiio by SoundCloud cuts through the noise, using AI to automate tagging and supercharge search for any company with a music catalogue. We serve over 75 clients in 11 countries and have analysed over 500 million tracks to date. The industry-leading proprietary tech is highly accurate, efficient and scalable, and gives music rights holders a deeper insight into the music they own to maximise returns on their investments.
Roll Of Honour Sponsor
Branding Sponsor
Blackstar is an award winning UK & US based marketing agency specialising in content, creative direction, social media, audience development, paid marketing, marketing campaign management & more. We support teams across the music industry to deliver exceptional elevated projects.
With a roster ranging from breakthrough acts like Arlo Parks, Gabriels, The Last Dinner Party & Cat Burns all the way to global megastars Kylie Minogue, Shania Twain, Wham!, Tool & Rage Against The Machine - Our incredible team make your campaign their priority.
With a roster ranging from breakthrough acts like Arlo Parks, Gabriels, The Last Dinner Party & Cat Burns all the way to global megastars Kylie Minogue, Shania Twain, Wham!, Tool & Rage Against The Machine - Our incredible team make your campaign their priority.
Charity Partner
Attitude is Everything (Reg Charity No. 1121975) connects disabled people with music and live event industries to improve access together.
Our vision is to see music and live event industries valuing disabled people as audience members, performers, professionals and volunteers.
Through our work:
- Disabled people lead the change;
- Industry professionals learn from real-life experience and expertise;
- Barriers are identified and removed;
- Best practice is celebrated and rewarded;
- More disabled people play their part.
Our work has amplified the voices of thousands of disabled people and generated lasting change. We’ve enabled over 200,000 disabled people nationwide to access culture in the UK via accredited and accessible venues and events. We’ve signed up over 1000 disabled people to volunteer with us and our volunteer programme has seen 75% of participants reporting a sense of community and 74% saying that it was the first time that they’d ever felt useful in their lives when volunteering with us. To support disabled artists, we’ve created the Next Stage initiative and we’ve also created the Beyond The Music programme for disabled professionals and aspiring professionals.
Contact us on info@attitudeiseverything.org.uk
Follow us on Instagram @attitudeiseverythinghq
Our vision is to see music and live event industries valuing disabled people as audience members, performers, professionals and volunteers.
Through our work:
- Disabled people lead the change;
- Industry professionals learn from real-life experience and expertise;
- Barriers are identified and removed;
- Best practice is celebrated and rewarded;
- More disabled people play their part.
Our work has amplified the voices of thousands of disabled people and generated lasting change. We’ve enabled over 200,000 disabled people nationwide to access culture in the UK via accredited and accessible venues and events. We’ve signed up over 1000 disabled people to volunteer with us and our volunteer programme has seen 75% of participants reporting a sense of community and 74% saying that it was the first time that they’d ever felt useful in their lives when volunteering with us. To support disabled artists, we’ve created the Next Stage initiative and we’ve also created the Beyond The Music programme for disabled professionals and aspiring professionals.
Contact us on info@attitudeiseverything.org.uk
Follow us on Instagram @attitudeiseverythinghq