Congratulations to all of the winners at this year’s Blues Music Awards which took place last weekend as a virtual broadcast on Facebook and YouTube. We’re thrilled to see many Proper distributed artists among the winners including Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, who was the big winner on the night taking home 5 awards, Sugaray Rayford, The […]
Author Archives: Ben
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Apr
Apr
Congratulations to Gerry Cinnamon and the team at AWAL and Little Runaway Records on the success of Gerry’s latest album The Bonny which has gone straight in to the UK and Ireland album charts at number 1. In its first week of release, the album sold almost twenty-nine thousand copies with nearly two thirds coming […]
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Apr
Apr
In anticipation of what would have been Record Store Day 2020 this Saturday 18 April – the biggest day in the indie record shop calendar and sadly postponed due to coronavirus – OfficialCharts.com have launched a new interactive map showcasing how to support your local record shop, even when you can’t leave the house. Indie […]
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Mar
Mar
The music community has launched the high-profile, global initiative #loverecordstores to help independent record stores during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. With many of these stores now experiencing a catastrophic drop-off in footfall or having already closed their doors there are fears that some may not survive if something is not done urgently to stimulate […]
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Mar
Mar
Will Webster found his way into the music industry via the job centre. In Will’s case it was in Bristol and he started off working in Virgin Records as a singles buyer. In the 80s nearly every record shop had a singles buyer. The sales rep from Island records mentioned to Will one day that […]
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Jan
Jan
The UK Americana Awards took place last night at a star-studded bash in London. Once again hosted by Bob Harris OBE, the show performances from the likes of Danni Nicholls, Amy Speace, Nick Lowe, Billy Bragg with Peter Donegan, The Felice Brothers and The Milk Carton Kids. Congratulations to all of the winners which we […]