UK Music: Analysing the Grassroots Collapse
According to UK Music’s This is Music Report for 2023, the country earned £4bn fromexporting its bands to other nations in 2022. This inevitably included multi-million-sellingacts like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Queen, and Cliff Richard, the top four most valuableartists in British history.
The music industry injected £6.7bn into the wider UK economy, which, while a paltry sumcompared to something like insurance (almost £60bn), is still a healthy contribution from adynamic industry. So, then, why is there so much…