Please see below for a list of useful music industry links and Free Music UK partners to purchase or download music from. If you would like to be included on this list, please use our Feedback Form.
7Digital are the UK’s leading digital media delivery company, and power over 1,000 digital properties, including their own 7digital download stores in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria and Portugal.
Amazon
Amazon.co.uk opened its virtual doors in October 1998 and strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where people can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavours to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.co.uk and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used music items. In addition, they give you a variety of resources to help you make your choice, including customer reviews and personal recommendations.
eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the world’s second-largest digital music retailer overall, with more than 5 million tracks from over 40,000 independent labels and nearly 6,500 titles from top audio book publishers.
HMV
HMV now offer the latest music, videos and games for you to purchase online.
iTunes
Every song available on iTunes is now an iTunes Plus song. This means every song you download is virtually indistinguishable from the original recording. iTunes Plus songs are all free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM). So the music you buy will play on iPod, Apple TV, all Mac and Windows computers, and many other digital music players.
Napster
Napster, the pioneer of digital music, offers the ultimate in interactive music experiences, creating better ways to discover, share, acquire and enjoy music - anytime, anywhere. With a Napster Unlimited membership customers get unlimited access to one of the biggest music catalogues worldwide with more than seven million tracks covering every genre, for a flat monthly fee.
Play.com
Play.com sell DVDs, CDs, MP3s, Video Games, Electronics, Books and Ringtones with free delivery to UK and Europe. Play.com is the top site for DVDs, CDs and games in the UK and stock all major movies on DVD.
Rhino
Rhino UK brings you exclusive, rare and deluxe products as well as interviews, video footage and features on some of the biggest acts in the world.
viagogo
viagogo is an online ticket exchange that allows people to buy and sell live event tickets in a safe and guaranteed way.
The BPI (formerly known as British Phonographic Industry) is the body that represents the British recorded music business.
Representing thousands of UK labels, it has over 400 members large and small, who between them account for in excess of 90% of the UK music market: these include the four major labels (EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner Music), music companies such as manufacturers, online aggregators and distributors, and hundreds of independents.
Riverside Building
County Hall
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7JA
IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide with some 1400 members in 72 countries and affiliated industry associations in 44 countries. IFPI's international Secretariat is based in London and is linked to regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, Miami and Moscow.
Any company, firm or person producing sound recordings or music videos which are made available to the public in reasonable quantities is eligible for membership of IFPI.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world.
RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.
Launched in late October 2008, UK Music is a new umbrella organisation representing the collective interests of the UK's commercial music industry, from artists, musicians, songwriters and composers, to major and independent record labels, managers, music publishers, studio producers and collecting societies.
British Music House
26 Berners Street
London
W1T 3LR
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