The British pop talent crash: where have all the new acts gone?

With the charts dominated by North American titans such as Beyoncé and Drake, it is getting harder and harder for the UK’s rising stars to break in. Will we ever see another Adele? Imagine a UK music chart with almost no UK acts in it. A Top 40 comprised of North Americans, Scandinavians and, down at the bottom reaches, a British outlier or two. That is the gloomy prediction being made in some corners of the British music industry because of two problems: the difficulty of finding new ...

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