MQA
Social Media Sponsor
Using pioneering scientific research into how people hear, MQA captures the sound of the original performance. The MQA file is fully authenticated, backward compatible, and small enough to stream, so you can play MQA on any device. MQA powers award-winning products and services worldwide with unmatched efficiency, making it the most sustainable solution for the entertainment industry. Partnerships span recorded music, video, radio, broadcast and livestreaming. Wherever there is audio, MQA delivers the best sound.
Wise Music Group
Drinks Reception Sponsor
Wise Music Group maintains a global network of standalone offices including Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris and Tokyo. The group’s publishing houses and imprints include some of the most famous names in the history of music including Chester Music, G. Schirmer, Associated Music Publishers, Novello & Co, Éditions Alphonse Leduc, Première Music, Le Chant du Monde, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Unión Musical Ediciones, Bosworth Music GmbH, and Campbell Connelly.
The Group owns or controls nearly half a million copyrights – including the world’s largest independent holding of historic and contemporary classical music – as well as a huge range of popular songs spanning evergreen, jazz, reggae, blues, pop and rock. It also represents more than 100 of today’s most successful living composers and songwriters working in classical music, opera, ballet, pop, film, television and advertising.
This year Wise Music Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
The Group owns or controls nearly half a million copyrights – including the world’s largest independent holding of historic and contemporary classical music – as well as a huge range of popular songs spanning evergreen, jazz, reggae, blues, pop and rock. It also represents more than 100 of today’s most successful living composers and songwriters working in classical music, opera, ballet, pop, film, television and advertising.
This year Wise Music Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
LCCM
Category Sponsor
This year London music college LCCM celebrates its 20th anniversary, cementing its enviable position at the crossroads of talent development and Higher Education. LCCM graduates include BRIT Award winner Tom Walker, and fellow artists and writers Rhys Lewis and Chiara Hunter. Other former students making waves include Marie Dahlstrom, JOY (ANONYMOUS), Sans Soucis and Nathan Challinor, the latter for his co-writes with BBC Sound of 2022 finalist Baby Queen. LCCM’s custom-built teaching and artist development facility The Music Box in Central London features a 120-cap entertainment venue and multiple recording studios. Major artists including Kojey Radical, Moses Boyd, Amber Run, Novelist and Kara Marni have spent time rehearsing or recording from The Music Box in recent months, as well as meeting with LCCM students.
Milk & Honey
Category Sponsor
Milk & Honey Music + Sports + Ventures is one of the largest full service global management companies for songwriters, producers, DJ’s and athletes. With offices in Los Angeles, London, New York, Nashville, Dallas, Amsterdam, and Australia, the company has well over 100 clients as well as a digital lab in the web 3 space. The company’s diverse roster of writers and producers have had some of the biggest global hits of the century and have collectively sold over half a billion records. Milk & Honey has sold over 9 figures in music publishing catalogue assets in 2021 and are considered experts in the space.
OCC
Category Sponsor
PPL
Category Sponsor
PPL licenses recorded music in the UK when it is played in public or broadcast and ensures that revenue flows back to our members. These include independent and major record companies, together with performers ranging from emerging musicians to globally renowned artists. In 2020 we collected £225.7 million while also distributing money to over 135,000 performers and recording rightsholders.
Radiomonitor
Category Sponsor
Radiomonitor is the industry standard music airplay monitoring service used by all major record labels and radio stations worldwide.
KISS
After Party Sponsor
KISS is the UK’s largest multimedia brand for engaging 15-34 year olds across its platforms.
From on-air, social timelines, YouTube, TikTok, live events and streaming, connecting with its audience through a multi-platform strategy with content around the music and things they love.
KISS is the home of Jordan & Perri in the morning, Tyler in the afternoon and the soundtrack to the weekend with KISS Nights DJs including Majestic, Gorgon City, Hannah Wants and Sam Divine.
KISS is available on FM, DAB, Freeview, Sky, KISSFMUK.COM, via the KISS KUBE App, on socials and at events across the world.
From on-air, social timelines, YouTube, TikTok, live events and streaming, connecting with its audience through a multi-platform strategy with content around the music and things they love.
KISS is the home of Jordan & Perri in the morning, Tyler in the afternoon and the soundtrack to the weekend with KISS Nights DJs including Majestic, Gorgon City, Hannah Wants and Sam Divine.
KISS is available on FM, DAB, Freeview, Sky, KISSFMUK.COM, via the KISS KUBE App, on socials and at events across the world.
Blinding Talent
Branding Sponsor
Blinding Talent is a specialist music marketing agency set up by industry executive and former Channel 4 Director of Music Mark Adams. Taking a fresh and straight talking approach to help demystify Digital Marketing for Independent Artists, Managers and Labels, Blinding Talent services include Social Media Advertising, Artist Consultancy, DSP Playlisting Strategy and Influencer Marketing.
UTA
Branding Sponsor
One of the most influential companies in the global entertainment business, leading talent, entertainment and sports agency UTA represents some of the world’s most iconic, barrier-breaking artists and creators— from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers, and digital influencers. UTA’s business spans talent representation, original content production and its strategic advisory and marketing practice that works with the biggest brands in the world. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London. More information can be found at unitedtalent.com and by following UTA on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Small Green Shoots
Charity Partner
Small Green Shoots (SGS) is a youth-led charity offering artistic development support to aspiring artists from across the UK. SGS also provides an alternative to the conventional education system, training, and entry into the job market for young people. They go above and beyond, creating pathways for disadvantaged young people and emerging artists, by giving them access to the creative industry, industry connections and funding. As they enter their second decade, SGS plans to build on their reputation as ’The finishing school for the music industry’ has seen recent work placement partnerships with the likes of Sony 4th Floor Creative, Paradigm Agency and Insanity Records.
ERA
Category Supporter
The Independent Retailer of the Year category is supported by ERA. The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) is the trade grouping representing UK digital services and digital and physical retailers in the music, video and games markets. Formed initially as group of record retailers over 25 years ago, ERA has since grown into a broad-based advocacy group embracing many of the most dynamic and fastest-growing companies in the entertainment industry. ERA members supply the sales data which powers the Official Charts Company (music and video charts) and GfK Chart-Track (video games). ERA also provides the organisational force behind the UK’s Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores which has become the most successful new music industry promotion of the past two decades. ERA is a strong proponent of open markets, open standards and consumer choice.
Music Venue Trust
Category Supporter
Music Venue Trust is a UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues. Founded in January 2014, we aim to secure the long-term future of UK Grassroots Music Venues by highlighting their crucial role in the development of British music, nurturing local talent and providing a platform for artists. We work to gain recognition of the essential role these venues fulfil, not only for artist development but also for the cultural and music industries, the economy and local communities. We aim to preserve and improve venues, making them more efficient and improving the experience for performers and audiences. We are the nominated representative of a 600-strong network of venues: the Music Venues Alliance and advocate on their behalf both within the live music industry and in the wider political and social landscape.