UCan Play are delighted to announce a collaboration with ‘I Like Music’, the company that owns the digitised version of The Phil Swern Collection. This collection comprises of a CD or vinyl copy of every UK Top 40 hit since the charts began in November 1952, the US Hits 100 and further substantial quantities of pop, jazz, country, film soundtracks, stage shows, classical and comedy Music sections. This remarkable vinyl and CD archive is probably the most complete collection of music anywhere in the world, containing many millions of recordings including 200,000 items on vinyl.

UCan Play will promote the I Like Music collection to schools and colleges across the UK. We will run a short research project with schools that investigates their use of recorded music across the curriculum. We will make the archive available at a reduced cost to schools in return for the production of curriculum materials. Standard subscriptions to the archive will also be offered to any school.

Further information about the I Like Music and UCan Play collaboration is available here.