Glastonbury Festival has set its lineup and—just as we told you a month ago— Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain are the headliners along with SZA.

It’s the first time in the event's history that female acts are two of the three headliners. Other items of note: Seventeen will be the first K-pop group to play the main stage; Little Simz says Glasto is the only show she’ll play in 2024; and Avril Lavigne, Cyndi Lauper and Camila Cabello will make their Glastonbury debuts.

Twain will occupy the "legend slot" on Sunday afternoon; Coldplay will become the first act to headline Glastonbury five times.

Idles, Disclosure and The National will headline the festival's second-biggest area, the Other Stage.

It all takes place 6/26-30. Odds are it will rain.

U.K. recorded music revenue increased 8.1% in 2023 to £1.43b as a record number of artists benefited from the streaming market, the BPI reported.

U.K. recorded music revenue increased 8.1% in 2023 to £1.43b in 2023 as a record number of artists benefited from the streaming market, the BPI reported.

In a ninth consecutive year of growth, 2,245 artists had more than 10m audio streams of their music in the U.K., a 17% spike over two years earlier.

Streaming outperformed the overall market, up 8.4% to £962.1m, representing 67.4% of recorded music revenue. Paid subscriptions to services such as Amazon, Apple, Deezer, Spotify and YouTube were up 8.1% and constituted nearly 86% of the music streaming revenue.

“Flowers” by Miley Cyrus was the most-streamed track of 2023 with 198.1m audio and video streams in the U.K., followed by “Sprinter” by Dave & Central Cee (160.6m streams) and “Escapism” by Raye f/070 Shake (142m streams).

Revenue from physical formats also grew, 12.8% in 2023, to £243.4m, led by a double-digit percentage rise in vinyl LP sales. Vinyl revenue was up 18.6% year-over-year to £141.6m and made up 58.2% of all physical music revenue. CDs posted a 5.4% increase to £97.2m.

New releases were the main driving force last year behind the rise in vinyl revenue with seven of 2023’s10 biggest sellers having been released in the calendar year. They 1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift, Hackney Diamonds by The Rolling Stones and Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey.

Public performance income, which is generated by the broadcast and public performance of recorded music, increased by 7.3% year-on-year, with £154.5m collected on behalf of record labels in 2023. Sync income was £39.5m.

“It would be all too easy to take this growth for granted, but at a time when British music faces unprecedented competition from around the world and challenges at home, it’s vital the right conditions remain in place here to give British music every opportunity to thrive,” BPI Chief Executive Officer Dr. Jo Twist, OBE, said.

The 1975, Ezra Collective and Cat Burns are among the winners of this year’s O2 Silver Clef Awards handed out by Nordoff and Robbins, the U.K.’s largest music therapy charity.

Jessie Ware will receive the Best Female prize, The 1975 will be honored as Best Group and Scottish band Texas will go home with the Outstanding Achievement award. Burns will receive the New Music Award and Ezra Collective wins the Contemporary Music Award.

The awards ceremony will be held 7/5 at Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane. Winners of the O2 Silver Clef, Icon, Best Male, Best Live Act, Innovation and Global Impact awards will be announced ahead of the ceremony.

The O2 Silver Clef Awards, held since 1976, have raised nearly £13m for Nordoff and Robbins’ music therapy services. Last year’s event raised over £530k.

Ariana Grande’s eternal sunshine (Republic) has taken the early lead in the race for this week’s Official Albums #1 while Beyoncé is settling in for a full month atop singles.

Grande’s seventh album is in position to be her fifth chart-topper in the U.K. She most recently hit #1 in 2020 with Positions.

Eyeing a #2 debut this is Judas Priest’s Invincible Shield (Columbia). The 19th studio set from the Birmingham-born heavy metal band could earn them a career-best entry; their previous peak was #4 with 1980’s British Steel.

Bleachers is also looking at a personal best as the eponymous fourth studio album (Dirty Hit) from Jack Antonoff’s band is currently #3. A Bananarama compilation, Glorious—The Ultimate Collection (London), is #6 and potentially their first Top 10 entry in 36 years. Another blast from the past, Girls Aloud’s 2004 record What Will the Neighbours Say? (Polydor), is #10 following a 20th anniversary reissue on CD, vinyl and digital formats.

A 20th anniversary red vinyl edition of Kylie Minogue’s Body Language (Parlophone) has pushed it to #11; Grace Petrie’s Build Something Better (Robot Needs Home) is #17.

At singles, Beyoncé’s “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” (Parkwood/Columbia) is in position to become her longest-running chart-topper in the U.K. to date.

Grande has three eternal sunshine tracks in the Top 20: “yes, and?” is up seven to #4 while two new entries, “why can’t we be friends (wait for your love)” and “bye” are #6 and #11, respectively.

Billie Eilish’s Oscar-winner “What Was I Made For?” (Interscope) is already making a return to the Top 20 following its release on vinyl. Will the Academy Award victory push it even further up the chart?

The first partnership between former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and Stone Roses guitarist John Squire—a bit of Mancunian rock royalty—goes to straight to #1 on the Official Albums Chart, outselling their closest competition 3:1. At singles, Beyoncé records her third straight week at #1.

Liam Gallagher & John Squire (Warner) earned 39,400 chart unit sales, 94% of which were physical and download sales. It was the week’s most-purchased album in the U.K.’s independent record shops; it tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart as well.

Between his solo and band efforts, Gallagher now has 14 #1s; it is Squire’s first-ever U.K. chart-topper.

Coming in at #3 is The Mandrake Project (Duelist/BMG), the seventh solo album from Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson. Yard Act’s Where’s My Utopia? (Island) follows at #4.

The Kaiser Chiefs score their eighth Top 10 release as Kaiser Chiefs’ Eighth Album (V2) lands at #6. The seventh album from Manchester’s Everything Everything, Mountainhead (BMG), debuts at #9 followed by Skrapz’s Reflection (1&Only/EGA) at #10.

Following her impressive six wins at the BRIT Awards, RAYE’s My 21st Century Blues (Human Re Sources) rises 98 places to #5 and three of her songs climb into the Top 40 on Official Singles Chart: “Escapism” f/070 Shake is #13; her cassö and D-Block Europe collab “Prada” hits 18; and “Worth It” debuts at #38.

Atop the singles chart is Beyoncé’S “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” (Parkwood/Columbia) which becomes her longest-running #1 single in 17 years. Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” (Warner) returns to its peak position of #2.

Moving up one slot each are Djo’s “End of the Beginning” (AWOL) to #4 and Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival” (YZY) to #5.

Ella Henderson has her 10th Top 10 single as her Rudimental collab, “ALIBI” (Atlantic) hits, what else?, #10. At #26, Charli XCX’s “Von dutch” (Atlantic) is the highest new entry of the week.

Former Creation label boss and artist manager Alan McGee and producer-Killing Joke bassist Martin “Youth” Glover have founded a new label, Creation Youth, in collaboration with Richard England and Nick Lawrence.

Initial projects include music from Forgotten Pharaohs, Bad Fractals and Sonny E plus posthumous releases from Jamie Reid and Lee “Scratch” Perry. McGee will also curate a subscription-based singles club.

“I have been friends with Youth since 1980, he is my friend and also one of my heroes,” said McGee, whose Creation Records was home to Oasis, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine in the 1990s. “The first record we have made together for the label is the Forgotten Pharaohs album, which is already record of the year for me.”

Beyond McGee handling A&R and Youth overseeing production, England will be label manager while Lawrence is business/finance management boss.

Veteran music publishing exec Roberto Neri will take over as CEO of The Ivors Academy, replacing interim CEO Charlie Phillips. He starts 4/15.

Ivors Academy Chair Tom Gray said Neri “brings a huge breadth of industry experience, knowledge and leadership skills. His commitment—and ours to him—is to be the most influential voice for songwriters and composers in the world."

Neri was most recently CEO of the publishing arm of Believe, and was previously chief executive and COO at Utopia Music Services, EVP and head of Business Development at Downtown Music, and VP of International at Bug Music.

He has served on a range of music industry boards including chair of the Music Publishers Assn. and director for UK Music, PRS for Music, MCPS and PPL/PRS.

The BRIT Awards registered a record year on social media with 50m views on the day of the event, doubling the number of hits from the 2023.

More than half of the traffic came via Instagram where Bring Me The Horizon’s acceptance speech, RAYE’s performance and Miley Cyrus’s win for International Song of the Year were among the most watched clips.

The show was viewed live Saturday (3/2) on ITV1 and ITVX by 2.5m people.