Hipgnosis sponsors large two song-centric classes at A&R Awards

Hipgnosis Tune Administration will sponsor two classes near its coronary heart – and enterprise – at this 12 months’s A&R Awards: Tune of the Yr and Songwriter of the Yr.

Introduced by Music Enterprise Worldwide, the A&R Awards is the UK music trade’s most satisfying evening out.

The UK-focused occasion sees icons and legends of the British music trade celebrated alongside the trade’s most profitable hit-makers of the final 12 months.

2022’s occasion will happen on Tuesday, November 8, at London’s Grand Connaught Rooms.

As all the time, it’s fully offered out.

Hipgnosis founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis mentioned: “We’re delighted to now be sponsoring each the Tune Of The Yr and the Songwriter Of The Yr classes on the A&R Awards.

“The track is the forex of our trade and with out the track and songwriter there isn’t a recorded music enterprise, there isn’t a publishing, merchandising or live performance enterprise.

“Every part begins with and rotates round these unbelievable songs which might be the material of our society, so it’s each a duty and a privilege to have fun the best songs and songwriters. That’s an vital a part of the Hipgnosis ethos.”

Different classes on the now fully sold-out occasion will embody Producer of The Yr, A&R of the Yr: Grownup Modern, A&R Administrator, A&R of The Yr: Modern Black Music (Sponsored by Spotify), A&R Of The Yr: Digital/Dance, Main Label of The Yr, Impartial Label of The Yr, Writer of the Yr (Sponsored by Milk & Honey) and Administration Firm.

The headline sponsor of the A&R Awards is, as all the time, Abbey Highway Studios.Music Enterprise Worldwide