Red Carpet Sponsor

Believe UK is part of Believe, one of the world’s leading digital music companies. Believe’s mission is to develop independent artists and labels in the digital world by providing them the services they need to grow their audience at each stage of their career and development. Globally, Believe has 1,720 employees in more than 50 countries, including 65 staff in the UK. They aim to support independent artists and labels with a unique digital expertise, respect, fairness, and transparency. Believe offers its various solutions through a portfolio of brands including Believe, TuneCore, Nuclear Blast and Naïve among others.

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. This full-service creative marketing agency and artist consultancy is aimed at helping to democratise the music industry.

Category Sponsor

Deezer is one of the world’s largest independent music experiences platforms, connecting fans with artists and creating ways for people to Live the music. The company provides access to a full-range catalog of high quality music, lossless HiFi audio and industry-defining features on a scalable platform available in 180+ countries. Founded in 2007 in Paris, Deezer is now a global company with over 600 people based in France, Germany, UK, Brazil and the US, all brought together by their passion for music, technology and innovation.

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 businesses 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.

Charity Partner

If you work in music and are struggling to cope, then Music Minds Matter is here for you, 24/7. It doesn’t need to be a crisis, or even about music.
It offers free, confidential support to everyone in the UK music industry, alongside online sessions, peer support networks and online resources.
Music is so important to our mental wellbeing, yet those who work in can often struggle more than most with their own mental health. Music Minds Matter, the sister charity to Help Musicians, is driven by the desire to build positive mental wellbeing for all who work in music.

Category Supporter

Music Venue Trust is a UK-registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues. Created in January 2014, they aim to secure the long-term future of iconic Grassroots Music Venues such as Hull Adelphi, Exeter Cavern, Southampton Joiners, The 100 Club, Band on the Wall, Tunbridge Wells Forum etc.
These venues have played a crucial role in the development of British music over the last 40 years, nurturing local talent, and providing a platform for artists to build their careers and develop their music and their performance skills. Music Venue Trust works 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. They aim to preserve and improve venues, making them more efficient and improving the experience for performers and audiences. Long-term MVT plans to acquire the freeholds of as many of these vital venues as possible through the CCBS Music Venue Properties. The team’s work is supported by a Board of Trustees, made up of professionals who are passionate about Grassroots Music Venues and their social, cultural and economic value.
The Trustees voluntarily oversee the work of Team MVT, holding a legal responsibility for the charity’s conduct and fulfilment of its mission.
Music Venue Trust is a Charity registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales, registration no: 1159846.
Music Venue Trust (Scotland) is a charity registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity.

Category Partner

Initially formed in 1998 to manage the future development of the charts in the fast-moving entertainment industry, and control rights to the historic charts, the company behind the charts operates today from offices in County Hall, on London’s South Bank. The company is a joint venture operation owned by two key music industry bodies: the BPI (representing the British recorded music industry) and the Entertainment Retailers Association (representing entertainment retailers and digital services from HMV, supermarkets and indie stores through to Amazon MP3, Spotify and Netflix).

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 2023, PPL paid out a record £279.6 million to more than 165,000 performers and recording rightsholders, the highest in the organisation’s 90-year history.

Category Sponsor

PRS for Music is a world-leading music collective management organisation representing the rights of more than 165,000 talented songwriters, composers and music publishers around the globe. Headquartered in the UK, it works diligently on behalf of its members to grow and protect the value of their rights. With a focus on innovation and integrity, PRS for Music is redefining the global standard for music royalties to ensure creators are paid whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. In 2022, PRS for Music collected £964m and paid out £836.2m in royalties.

Category Partner

Radiomonitor is a London based company that provides music airplay data to the music and broadcast industries, PR and government. We monitor music airplay across Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australasia, USA, Latin America and the Middle East and compile daily airplay charts for over 90 countries. Radiomonitor is the industry standard airplay monitoring service used by all major record labels as well as artists, managers, label services and performing rights organisations across Europe.

Category Sponsor

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.

Drinks Reception Sponsor

Wise Music Group maintains a global network of standalone offices including London, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Copenhagen, Bergamo, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Tokyo and Berlin. 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. Wise Music 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. The group also represents nearly 100 of today’s most successful living composers and songwriters working in classical music, opera, ballet, pop, film, television and advertising.