THANKS TO OUR 2024 SPONSORS
Headline Partner
SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 375 million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.
Socials: @SoundCloud on Insta and @SoundCloud on X, Linkedin
Socials: @SoundCloud on Insta and @SoundCloud on X, Linkedin
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
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
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
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.
Branding Sponsor
Blinding Talent was founded by music industry supremo Mark Adams, former Music Director at Channel 4, Kerrang!, Kiss, and Bauer. Mark spent decades working with A-list artists, major labels, and global brands before establishing Blinding Talent. With a comprehensive suite of services including Artist Development, Streaming Promotion, Press and Online PR, Social Media Marketing, Campaign Management, and Influencer Engagement, we aim to deliver impactful marketing solutions and long term growth for our clients.
Branding Sponsor
Rocksteady Music School is the UK’s leading pop and rock school, trusted by thousands of primary schools to teach tens of thousands of children in-school band lessons every week.
Through Rocksteady’s inclusive and child-led approach to teaching, any child can learn to play an instrument in a band with their peers, helping them to increase their self-belief and wellbeing - and sparking a love of music in the process!
Outside of the classroom, the Rocksteady Foundation also delivers free music sessions to charities and support groups across the country, giving thousands of vulnerable children the chance to experience the amazing benefits of playing music.
Through Rocksteady’s inclusive and child-led approach to teaching, any child can learn to play an instrument in a band with their peers, helping them to increase their self-belief and wellbeing - and sparking a love of music in the process!
Outside of the classroom, the Rocksteady Foundation also delivers free music sessions to charities and support groups across the country, giving thousands of vulnerable children the chance to experience the amazing benefits of playing music.