QUARTER BY QUARTER Historical market share of the five publishers with the most Q1 share of the top 100 U.S. radio airplay songs.
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100, up from four i I 1111e prior quarter, includ- 2.5% share, virtually flat from the same period ing "Firework," Rihanna's Only Girl (In the last year. The company placed six songs in the
World)" at No. 10 and Pitbu I l's "Hey Baby (Drop top 100, including Brad Paisley's "This Is
It to the Floor)," featuring T -Pain, at No. 13. Country Music" at No. 38 and Tim McGraw's 15% BMG Chrysalis ranked seventh in the first "Felt Good on My Lips" at No. 51. quarter with 2.8 %, down from 3.1% in the prior Among publishers of country music songs, quarter for its third sequential quarterly de- Sony /ATV finished atop the ranking for the cline in market share. BMG claimed a share second quarter in a row, capturing 15.9% of in 11 top 100 tracks, one less than last time the top 100 country songs at 197 stations mon- out. Its top songs were "F * *k You (Forget itored by Nielsen BDS, up from 15.1% in the 10% You)," Ke r i H i l so n's "Pretty Girl Rock" at No. prior quarter. I 21 and Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot," featuring The top songwriter for the third consecutive Cory Gunz, at No. 25. quarter was Martin Karl "Max Martin" Sand- Peermusic placed ninth in the rankings with berg, who co -wrote 10 of the first quarter's top 2.6 %, its largest share since the launch of the 100 airplay songs, including P!nk's "Raise Your top 10 ranking and its first appearance on the Glass" and "F**kin' Perfect," Britney Spears' 5% chart since first -quarter 2009. Peer had a share "Hold It Against Me,' Usher's "DJ Got Us SONY/AN MUSIC PUBLISHING $ WARNER /CHAPPELL MUSIC in five songs in the top 100, including "Fire- Fallin' in Love" (featuring Pitbull), Taio Cruz's work" and Rihanna's "What's My Name," fea- "Dynamite," Avril Lavigne's "What the Hell," in UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING III KOBALT MUSIC GROUP turing Drake, at No. 4. Ke$há s "Blow" and Perry's "Teenage Dream," EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING "E.T." Kanye West) and "Califor- . Words and Music Copyright Administration (featuring
Dogg) . ranked 10th, returning to the ranking with a nia Gulls" (featuring Snoop 04'07 01'08 02'08 03'08 04'08 01 09 02'09 03'09 04'09 01'10 0210 03'10 04'10
TOP 10 SONGWRITERS TOP 10 AIRPLAY SONGS AIRPLAY CHART RANK ARTIST RANK SONG LABEL
MARTIN KARL "MAX MARTIN" SANDBERG
TAYLOR SWIFT 2 "FIREWORK," KATY PERRY CAPITOL
MIKKEL STORLEER ERIKSEN, 3 "TONIGHT (I'M LOVIN' YOU)," ENRIQUE IGLESIAS UNIVERSAL TOR ERIK HERMANSEN (STARGATE) FEATURING LUDACRIS & DJ FRANK E REPUBLIC
JOHAN "SHELLBACK" SCHUSTER 4 "WHAT'S MY NAME ?," SRP/DEFJAM/ RIHAN\IA FEATURING DRAKE IDJMG SANDY "VEE" WILHELM 5 "RAISE YOUR GLASS," P!NK LaFACE /JLG ESTER DEAN 6 "JUST THE WAY YOU ARE," BRUNO MARS ELEKTRA /ATLANTIC LUKASZ "DR. LUKE" GOTTWALD 7 "F* *KIIA" PERFECT," P!NK LaFACE /JLG PETER "BRUNO MARS" HERNANDEZ, PHILIP LAWRENCE, ARI LEVINE 8 "WE R WHO WE R," KE$HA SONGBOOK /ATLANTIC (THE SMEEZINGTONS) 9 "BACK TO DECEMBER," TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 1 AUBREY "DRAKE" GRAHAM 10 "ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD)," SRP/DEF JAM/ ALECIA "P!NK" MOORE RIHANNA IDJMG
Ranking based on the number of, aggregated plays each songwriter had among the overall top 100 detecting songs from 1,532 U.S. radio stations Ranking based on the number of aggregated plays each song had among 1,532 U.S. radio stations electronically monitored by Nielsen BDS 1 31. electronically monitored by Nielsen BDS 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the period of Jan. 1 -March 31. Unlike the accompanying publisher 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the period of of Jan. -March airplay charts, this ranking doesn't take into account the publishing splits among songwriters for a given song, but rather divides credits equally among each listed songwriter,
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