Meet Leon Neville, Director of Insights for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
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About Leon Neville
Leon Neville is a media entertainment insights specialist with a career spanning over 25 years, having worked across a mixture of both agency and client-side roles, including the music industry for the past 15 years.
Leon spent more than a decade at Universal Music from 2007 to 2017 based in London working within the central UK commercial division including several years heading up the UK insight team.
After leaving Universal Music in October 2017, Leon formed the All Ears Group, an insights consultancy working with a mixture of labels, management and digital marketing teams. Most recently since July 2020 alongside All Ears, Leon has been lecturing to music industry students at Notting Hill Academy of Music in London and TAFE students in Queensland, Australia.
Leon has held UK and globally focused insight roles in both the Music and the Film & Television industry where he has worked at both Walt Disney International Television and UK cable satellite broadcaster Flextech Television before joining Universal Music.
Leon lives on the south coast with his wife and two boys and loves football, supporting his boy’s playing at their local grassroots team alongside Chelsea FC and attending live music events across the globe and across all genres. “Travelling to see great music is brilliant but I do love it every year when my local city, Brighton, takes centre stage and showcases new music from across the UK at the Great Escape Festival”.
About BPI (British Phonographic Industry) – bpi.co.uk
The BPI champions the UK’s recorded music community, safeguarding the rights of its members and of the artists, performers and label members of collecting body PPL. The BPI’s membership consists of well over 500 independent labels and the UK’s three ‘majors’ – Universal Music UK, Sony Music Entertainment UK and Warner Music UK. Its total membership taken together accounts for around 85 per cent of legitimate domestic music consumption and 1 in 10 streams around the world.
The BPI promotes British music at home and overseas through its trade missions, the Music Exports Growth Scheme and The BRIT Awards, which it owns and organises. It administers The BRIT Certified Platinum, Gold and Silver Awards Programme, co-owns the Official Charts Company with ERA, and is home to The Mercury Prize. The BPI encourages and supports innovation and technology through its Music & Tech Springboard Programme, and additionally provides insights, training and networking with its extensive free masterclasses, networking events, Insight Sessions and reports alongside its communications and public affairs work.
The BPI is committed to equality and inclusion. In support of this the BPI is working closely with its members and industry partners, as well as its Equality and Justice Advisory Group (EJAG). It aims to educate, inspire and help enact change through its BPI Equality Training Programme and BPI Equality Sessions, as well as its Membership Inclusion Programme. The BPI’s community engagement, focussed on education & wellbeing through the power of music, is directed through The BRIT Trust.
