Why has the UK stopped producing pop superstars? — theguardian.com

Has the UK music business lost its magic touch for creating pop superstars? The UK music industry will celebrate the inaugural National Album Day on Saturday, but top-selling new albums by British pop artists are few and far between in 2018. It’s not that there is a dearth of new music in the UK: albums by Paul McCartney, Years & Years, Florence + the Machine, James Bay and hyped new artists Anne-Marie and Jorja Smith have all made it into the top five. But none of them have sold well enough to make the Official Charts Company’s Top 10 releases of the year so far.

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