This year's Brits come after a successful year for the British music industry as a whole.
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And the venerable British music publication New Musical Express gave them a coveted Radar Award.
Bristol dance music collective Massive Attack won the outstanding contribution to British music award.
"We're very honoured to be part of that and people recognise British music is great, " said Harry Styles.
"The British music industry has nothing positive to show from their site blocks and personal legal threats, " he said.
He discusses his thoughts on it and his long-time association with British music.
Mr Howells, who was visiting the fair to promote British music, said music piracy encompassed both CD copying and internet downloads.
Come fall 2011, Cowell will return to the Fox lineup with a U.S. version of his popular British music talent show, The X Factor.
But the facts and figures seem to suggest British music is getting the best reception it has had around the world for many years.
"British music definitely had a good year in the United States last year, " says Mark Sutherland, international bureau chief at US music bible Billboard.
"What we're looking for - and this puts Prince at a disadvantage - is a great combination of popular and classical British music, " says Graham Taylor.
The Arctic Monkeys have been dominating the British music charts.
As the current plan stands, he will return to the Fox lineup in fall 2011 with a U.S. version of his popular British music talent show, The X Factor.
He may run the country's best-loved festival and be one of the most respected figures in British music, but Michael Eavis is still a 69-year-old Somerset dairy farmer first, music mogul second.
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While Idol will continue sans-Cowell "for many, many years, " according to Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice, the famous host will shift his focus to a U.S. version of his popular British music talent show, The X Factor.
The collective outpouring of grief that followed the death of Princess Diana in 1997 is now looked back on by many with bemusement, as is the brief "Britpop" moment of the mid-1990s, dubbed "Cool Britannia" by Vanity Fair magazine, which soon lost its lustre, exposed as a feeble parody of British music's 60s heyday.
He remained in sole charge of the "Proms, " the annual British classical music festival, until 1940.
By the time he died Sir Colin Davis was the grand old man of British classical music.
They became fixtures on the British folk music scene, and in 1964 Donovan recorded his first album.
"It shows the broad spread of British pop music, " said Alt-J's Gus Unger-Hamilton of the diverse shortlist.
British folk music had a golden era in the '60s and early '70s, and in certain circles it's experiencing a renaissance.
But with the reissue of "Diamond Day" 30 years later, she suddenly found herself being praised as an icon in a revised history of British folk music.
Copyright defenders, including the British recorded music industry body BPI, have argued that illegal copies of films, books and music made available on file-sharing sites destroy creative industry jobs and discourage investment in new talent.
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But a lack of popular recognition, combined with the increasing fragility of his health, led Syd Barrett to abandon the music industry altogether and, despite a couple of abortive attempts to re-ignite his career, Barrett remained, for more than 30 years, British rock music's greatest recluse.
The exhibition is creating almost as much of a buzz as Bowie's new music, reflecting the unique position he holds in the British arts and music landscape.
Vintage, which celebrates British fashion and music from the 1920s to the 1980s, will be held at the Boughton Estate near Kettering.
In 2000, it had the audacity to steal conductor Sir Andrew Davis from under British noses as their music director.
By then, his taste in music embraced British folk, especially the work of guitarists Davy Graham and Bert Jansch.
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