Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.

The rival Record Business, founded in 1978 by Brian Mulligan and Norman Garrod, was absorbed into Music Week in February 1983.

In 2003, Music Week relaunched its website of daily news, features, record release listings and UK sales, airplay and club charts.

[5][6][7] The package was sold for £2.4m[6][7] and also contained titles Television Broadcast Europe, Pro Sound News, Installation Europe, and additional websites, newsletters, conferences, show dailies and awards events, which generated £5.4m of revenue in 2010.

[9] In the first edition under new ownership it was announced that the title would switch its day of publication Monday to Thursday with immediate effect.

The magazine also published a weekly Cool Cuts chart compiled from DJ feedback and sales reports from independent record shops, which traced it roots back to James Hamilton's BPM section in Record Mirror (a publication which ended up as the middle dance music section of Music Week in 1991).

After Andre Paine and Ben Homewood wrote one each of the Charts Analysis posts on 5 November 2021,[27][28] Alan Jones resumed the role again, writing the 12 November overviews, with no explanation of why he returned (with the pages titled Charts analysis: ABBA's Voyage opens with huge sale of 204,000 for the albums and Charts analysis: Adele spends fourth week at summit ahead of album release for the singles).