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The National Music Day Foundation was created to support the events, chaired by Goldsmith, with trustees including Baron Armstrong of Ilminster. [10] To mark the launch Glastonbury Festival, which was taking place on the same weekend, was linked to National Music Day. [11] BBC Radio 1 hosted a National Music Day Roadshow in Glasgow. [12]
The chart, which had focussed on adult contemporary music, had been aired on Heart, Real Radio and Century FM. 2008. Galaxy 40 launches towards the end of the 2008 and is broadcast across the Galaxy Network, 2009. March – After less than three years on air, the final edition of Fresh 40 is aired. Also ending on this day is the short-lived ...
UK music fans spent £2.4bn on streaming and vinyl during 2024, data shows, exceeding the previous record of £2.2bn in 2001. [5] A UK inquest into the death of singer Liam Payne opens, and hears that he died as a result of "polytrauma". [6] 10 January – Chappell Roan wins BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025. [7]
24 May – The three-day BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend music festival gets underway in Luton, Bedfordshire, headlined by Chase & Status, Coldplay, Vampire Weekend, and Raye. [ 76 ] 29 May – English Touring Opera announces that it is to relocate its headquarters to Sheffield , with the process commencing in the autumn of 2024.
"Puppet on a String", performed barefoot by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter), won the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the UK in Vienna, becoming the first English-language song to win the contest. 11 April – Tom Stoppard's tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its Old Vic premiere in London ...
The Beatles topped the chart 17 times during the 1960s, more than any other act that decade Madonna is the most successful female solo artist in the UK, having achieved 13 number one singles Bryan Adams' first number one, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", spent 16 consecutive weeks at number one, longer than any other track Westlife were the ...
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group announces the appointment of Seb Huckle as its new executive director. [12] 29–31 March – The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival takes place in Liverpool. [13] 17 April English National Opera announces the resignation of Daniel Kramer as its artistic director, effective at the end of July 2019. [14]