There is a particular cruelty in the way the modern music industry treats its legacy artists. The musicians who built the catalog — the bands and solo performers whose records defined eras, filled stadiums, and soundtracked the lives of millions of fans across multiple generations — have watched the digital age systematically cut them out of the conversation. Streaming algorithms favor new releases and viral moments. Social media rewards whoever posted most recently. National radio playlists move on. And the iconic artists, the ones who earned their audience the hard way and still have devoted fans all over the world, are left with no infrastructure designed to serve them.
Two organizations have been fighting that injustice from different directions for years. This summer, they joined forces.
In August 2025, FENIX360 — the revolutionary artist empowerment platform built by Global CEO Allan Klepfisz — announced a landmark partnership with The Heritage Chart, the world’s leading chart for iconic artists, founded by legendary British broadcaster Mike Read. The partnership is, as Read himself described it, “a perfect fit.” It may also be one of the most significant developments in how heritage music is discovered, celebrated, and monetized in the digital age.
Mike Read: A Life in Music, a Career in Legacy
To understand what The Heritage Chart represents, you have to understand who Mike Read is. He is not simply a radio presenter. He is one of the defining figures of British broadcasting, a man whose career has spanned five decades and whose name is synonymous with the golden age of music radio and television.
Read began broadcasting in 1976 and joined BBC Radio 1 in 1978, where he would go on to host the flagship breakfast show for five years — making him one of the most listened-to voices in British music at the height of the format’s cultural dominance. He was simultaneously a host of Top of the Pops, the BBC’s iconic chart show, as well as Saturday Superstore and Pop Quiz, the music panel show that regularly drew audiences of ten million viewers. He has won ten National Broadcaster of the Year Awards and received the Gold Badge of Merit for his special contribution to Britain’s music industry. He is a prolific author with over 50 books to his name. He has written songs recorded by Cliff Richard, Don McLean, The Bee Gees, and David Essex, among many others. He is a founder editor of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles. He was created a Knight of Malta in 2011.
In 2020, Read created The Heritage Chart — the world’s first chart dedicated exclusively to new music by heritage artists. The concept was both simple and radical: classic and iconic artists are still making music, their fans still want to hear it, and there is no national broadcaster giving it regular airplay. The Heritage Chart fills that gap, counting down a weekly Top 40 voted on by fans across more than 80 countries, broadcasting on radio stations around the world and airing as a television series on Talking Pictures TV in the UK. It is, in the truest sense, a platform built by a man who loves music and refuses to let the industry’s short memory erase the artists who earned their place in it.
What the Partnership Delivers
Under the FENIX360 and Heritage Chart partnership, iconic artists featured on The Heritage Chart will now have a dedicated home on the FENIX360 app — a single, fully customized digital destination where their fans can access music, livestreams, merchandise, exclusive content, concert tickets, and NFTs, all in one place, with the artist keeping the overwhelming majority of the revenue it generates.
Heritage Chart’s celebrated Top 40 will be integrated directly into the FENIX360 app, allowing fans to vote for their favorite heritage artists, discover new releases from classic acts, and engage with the chart in real time. For the artists themselves, it means something that has been in short supply since the streaming era began: visibility, engagement, and income from a platform that was built to serve them rather than exploit them.
The revenue model FENIX360 brings to heritage artists is transformative. Artists on the platform keep 80 percent of advertising income and 95 percent of everything earned through merchandise, tickets, NFTs, and livestreams. There are no algorithms throttling their reach to fans. Their audience — which for many heritage acts is global, devoted, and willing to spend — can finally find them in a single, professional, artist-owned space.
Two Visionaries, One Shared Mission
The partnership was catalyzed by Andrew Eborn, Strategic Advisor to FENIX360 and a long-time media entrepreneur and entertainment industry leader whose creative partnership with Mike Read spans years of producing and presenting iconic moments in British broadcasting. Eborn described the collaboration as a natural convergence of two organizations that have always shared the same core belief: that artists — iconic or emerging — deserve recognition, audience, and fair compensation for their work.
“Mike and I have always believed in celebrating musical heritage while championing innovation,” Eborn said. “And this partnership does exactly that.”
Read described the partnership with FENIX360 as “a perfect fit,” noting that The Heritage Chart has always been about giving iconic artists the recognition and audience they deserve, while FENIX360 offers them the tools to monetize, connect, and be celebrated in the digital age. Allan Klepfisz, for his part, was equally direct about the alignment of missions:
“This partnership aligns perfectly with our mission to create financial and creative freedom for artists — whether emerging or legendary,” Klepfisz said.
Why This Matters for Music History
The FENIX360 and Heritage Chart partnership is not merely a business deal. It is a statement about what music culture owes its history — and a practical answer to the question of how the artists who built that history can continue to thrive in an era that has not always rewarded longevity.
Heritage artists carry something that no algorithm can manufacture: a genuine, decades-long relationship with their fans. Those fans are loyal, they are global, and they have been waiting for a single place where they can find everything their favorite artists are doing, support them directly, and know that their money is actually reaching the people who made the music they love. FENIX360, with its 80 and 95 percent revenue splits, its blockchain transparency, and its artist-owned infrastructure, is that place.
The Heritage Chart, broadcasting to fans in over 80 countries and counting down new music from the artists who defined the last half-century of popular music, is the discovery engine. Together, they form something the music industry has never quite managed to build: a complete, dignified, economically fair home for the icons.
For music fans who care about legacy — who believe that the artists who shaped the soundtrack of their lives deserve more than a fraction of a cent per stream and a fading spot on a nostalgic playlist — this partnership is exactly what the industry should have built years ago.
Better late than never. And with FENIX360 and The Heritage Chart now working together, it is finally here.
For more information visit fenix360.com | Heritage Chart: heritagechart.co.uk