November 2024 saw Music Business Worldwide’s annual UK awards ceremony evolve into something different – yet very recognizable.

The Music Business UK Awards took place at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden.

The UK-focused ceremony, presented by MBW in association with YouTube, recognised and celebrated artistic and industry talent across songwriting, production, record labels, music publishers, talent management and more.

It all kicked off with a brand new award introduced for 2024, the International Executive of The Year Award, celebrating the 30-year career of Jon Platt, Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Publishing, presented to Platt on stage by British songwriter and producer MNEK.

The prestigious Sir George Martin Award, meanwhile, went to Max Lousada, presented on stage by Ed Sheeran.

Other big awards on the night included our annual Songwriter Of The Year and Producer Of The Year prizes, won by Finn Keane, and A.G. Cook respectively.

This year’s Icon Award, meanwhile, went to Blue Raincoat’s Jeremy Lascelles, presented in person by brilliant singer-songwriter David Gray.

Elsewhere, Publisher Of The Year (in the ‘major’ publisher category) was scooped by Sony Music Publishing, while the award for Artist/Label Services company, judged solely on UK-signed independent projects made by the nominees, went to The Orchard.

Artist Management Company of the Year went to September Management (whose successes in the past 12 months include Adele In Munich and the breakthrough of Artemas), while Alex Gibson & Oliver Sasse (Fred Again..) won individual Manager of the Year honours. All On Red won Songwriter/Producer Management Company of the Year.

One more new award, Artist Lawyer of the Year, awarded to a UK-based individual in recognition of providing crucial direct services to talent, both domestically and around the world, went to Mark Krais, Bray & Krais

In addition to our headline partner YouTube, supporters of this year’s Awards included Hipgnosis, Milk & Honey, PPL, PRS For Music, Spotify, TikTok, Vevo and Chorus.