{"id":566378,"date":"2025-11-12T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566378\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:57:12","slug":"uk-music-industry-warns-growth-threatened-by-ai-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566378\/","title":{"rendered":"UK music industry warns growth threatened by AI, Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s music industry contributed \u00a38 billion (US$10.5 billion) to the UK economy in 2024, but the effects of Brexit and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/business\/are-you-listening-bots-survey-shows-ai-music-virtually-undetectable-5462411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a> have clouded the sector&#8217;s outlook, an industry report showed Wednesday (Nov 12).<\/p>\n<p>UK tours by Taylor Swift and Take That helped lift the industry&#8217;s contribution to the UK economy last year, according to the annual report from UK Music, an umbrella organisation for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Music exports were also boosted by the international success of artists such as Charli XCX and Lola Young.<\/p>\n<p>However, annual growth was slower than the double-digit increases recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid pandemic, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>UK Music&#8217;s chief executive Tom Kiehl warned that the industry faced a number of challenges, pointing to the &#8220;need for urgent action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the UK government would be judged on the &#8220;progress it makes in regulating artificial intelligence and unlocking EU touring&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON: Britain&#8217;s music industry contributed \u00a38 billion (US$10.5 billion) to the UK economy in 2024, but the effects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1942,802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-566378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115539204220898218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}