THE LAST DINNER PARTY & THE STARS OF 2024

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FRONT SECTION 06 THE BIG STORY Music Week crunches the numbers in our 2023 market analysis, including the power of catalogue and breaking artists

08 LOVEJOY & AWAL Lovejoy’s teams on their global impact

12 START ME UP/ IN POD WE TRUST We meet Fave’s Jacquelle Amankonah Horton in Start Me Up, whilst our podcast is Olly Carter’s Sound Advice

13 DIGITAL DISCOURSE Sammy Andrews dives into what 2024 holds in store for the digital world

16 PLAYLIST/ TASTEMAKERS 17 MAKING WAVES/ SYNC STORY 18 KEY RELEASES A look at all of the biggest albums coming your way very soon

09 FOR THE RECORD/ TAKE A BOW 11 SPOTLIGHT HMV’s Doug Putman on retail’s future

14 TWEETS OF THE MONTH 15 RISING STAR Meet Absolute Label Services’ digital accounts manager Lucia Mulchansingh

19 INCOMING Crawlers’ Holly Minto goes deep on the Polydor-signed Gen Z rockers’ debut album and the realities of touring in a post-Brexit world

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22 THE LAST DINNER PARTY For this month’s cover story, we meet the BRIT Rising Star and BBC Radio 1 Sound Of 2024 winners, who start the year amidst incredible buzz. Here, the band, plus their teams at Island and Q Prime, tell the tale of graduating from pub gigs to a major label, and give us the inside story of one of the year’s most exciting albums

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