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Milestone or Millstone: Update

Milestone or Millstone: Update

2025's first quarter UK album chart suggests 2024's issues presenting new British music continue.

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Patrick Clifton
Apr 10, 2025
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In January of this year, celebratory press releases called out 2024 as a stellar year for recorded music in the UK, so I looked at that year’s album chart to see what it revealed. I published the results in an article called Milestone or Millstone? . The data suggested that both new and tenured British artists that released new music in ‘24 had strugg…

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