The nominees for the 2021 UK Americana Awards were announced last week in a special online event which you can watch here. Congratulations to everyone who was shortlisted and special congratulations to the Proper distributed artists which include Hannah White, Our Man In The Field, Austin Lucas and Mavis Staples. You can find all of […]
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Nov
Nov
The Record Store of the Day campaign has relaunched today to continue highlighting the best independent record stores during lockdown 2. The campaign originally started back in March during the first lockdown and is being supported by AIM, BPI, ERA, and a host of UK Distributors including Proper. Each day, the campaign will spotlight a […]
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Nov
Record Store Day Black Friday takes place on the 27 November this year, and, although the lockdown measures will mean that no record shops in England will be able to open their doors, participating shops will be able to sell Black Friday exclusive titles online from 6pm. This year we’re distributing exclusive releases from artists […]
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Oct
Oct
Congratulations to Erica Day, our Head of Inventory & Logistics at Proper, who was today announced as an inductee in the 2020 Music Week Women in Music Roll of Honour. Drew Hill, our MD, said of the Erica’s induction “Congratulations Erica, well deserved recognition of your hard work, professionalism and leadership! You absolutely are a […]
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Sep
Sep
This year, the third National Album Day takes place on Saturday 10th October with the theme this year being the 80s. There’s going to be a week-long build-up of activities across the country celebrating the album as a format involving amazing talent which spans artists, songwriters, producers, labels, retailers, sleeve designers and the great British […]
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Sep
The winners of the Music Week Awards 2020 were announced yesterday and we were thrilled to win the “Sales Team” award for the second time. Following the announcement, Drew Hill, our MD said “Chuffed to win this again. The award is for our sales team, but it’s a Team Proper effort at the end of […]