Absolute clients are now able to take full advantage of Apple Music’s Spatial Audio format.
Your 2022 Digital Checklist!
Tick each task you complete as you go along. Your 2022 Digital Checklist is here!
Planned Maintenance: Absolute Project, Slinky, Pre-Save
Absolute Project will be unavailable from 17:00 GMT on Tuesday 30th November 2021 through to 08:00 GMT on Wednesday 1st December 2021 due to planned maintenance.
Holiday Delivery Deadlines
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! In order to make sure you have all of your important releases out in time during this festive season, we have…
What Do You Do? James Kinnear, Double J Music
This month we were joined by James Kinnear from Double J Music. As well as running several busy record labels, Double J also curate a series of highly popular Spotify…
The Digital Distribution Switch Code
Absolute is proud to support the ‘Digital Distribution Switch Code’, a best practice statement from independent distributors.
Spotlight Interview: Zuzu
Signing her first management and publishing deal with Big Life at just 15-years-old, Zuzu found herself thrust into the music industry at an incredibly young age…
The Stranglers achieve their best chart position in 38 years
We are thrilled to report that one of the great British bands, The Stranglers, enter at #4 on the UK Official Albums Chart with their brand-new album, Dark Matters. Making this their highest UK chart position for a studio album in 38 years, since Feline in 1983.
Embedding Music in Podcast Episodes with Spotify Music + Talk
Spotify’s Music + Talk format brings together music and spoken-word content to create a unique format that combines full songs and commentary together into one podcast episode.
What Do You Do? Chris Tams, BPI
This week spoke to Chris Tams, Director of Independent Member Services at the BPI, the UK music industry’s trade association. Chris has given us a great insight into what the…
Audio In Global Search On Instagram
Following Facebook’s announcement that music is now integrated into the search function on Instagram, we’ve broken down all the key bits you need to know!
Spotlight Interview: The Overtones
With their anniversary album 10 released July 30th – a year later than planned thanks to the effects of the pandemic – we sat down with Mike Crawshaw and Mark Franks from the group to discuss their career, their take on the music business, and the virtues of being independent.