Italian labels body FIMI and research firm GFK have published their annual consumption stats for Italy’s recorded-music market. They provide a fascinating contrast to the recent UK figures published ...

Italian Love Songs in September 1961, and though he was to leave the label shortly afterwards to join Sinatra’s Reprise imprint, the album proved popular with the US public when it was released ...

Between 1959 and 1969, Mina starred in 13 "musicarelli" films - those popular Italian musicals where pop stars would break into song mid-movie. One of her co-stars was none other than jazz legend ...