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Levi’s roots aren’t Max Hole aiming for in anti-copyright full EMI integration at rhetoric. Good. UMGI by end of year POOR LILY ALLEN. When the multi-BRIT Award-winning singer made the point back in 2009 that ripping off somebody’s hard LABELS closely with him for years. work for free wasn’t really on, actually, the P2P lobby gave her I BY TOM PAKINKIS Similarly Frank Brinkmann in proper hell. As in, death-threat-don’t-you-dare-f*cking-talk-about- Germany and George Ash in that-with-an-added-pinch-of-ugly-misogyny hell. (The way people ewly-appointed UMG Australia - these are all guys that always react when they have a worthy and not-at-all selfish or N International chairman I’ve been working with for years. contradictory cause to protect...) and CEO Max Hole is “It’s really a progression of It was the first and last time a prominent star on this side of the aiming to complete the stability, which is one of the Atlantic dared speak strongly and publicly in favour of that operational integration of EMI things that makes us a strong desperately uncool notion, copyright. Metallica said it far less Music into Universal globally by record company.” eloquently in the US a few years before, of course - with that the end of the year. Hole went on to say that the heartwarmingly American vocabulary, litigation - and were pilloried He warns, however, that Japan response from the EMI ranks by everyone from the media to their own fans for their trouble. stands out as a market in which about their integration within As ever in music, timing in both cases was everything. the merger could yet take years Universal had been positive, and In the same year that Ms. Allen was vitriolically castigated for, to complete fully. pointed to the longevity and erm, speaking sense (open rights news hub TorrentFreak even Talking to Music Week experience of UMG’s managerial over-excitedly declared her career deceased), Duffy rode a bike following his appointment, Hole teams as a key reason for that. around a supermarket for money and lost everything. said that coordinating the “The feedback that I’ve had is incorporation of EMI Music “That means assembling that it’s been pretty well across various territories was not really talented teams that are managed,” he said. “The message “When word finally got back to Levi’s that they a simple task. working together and competing that we can bring is that we’re were advertising on torrent portals, they freaked. “It’s a different challenge in to a certain degree internally.” music people and we understand Super-cool brands are now in copyright’s corner” different countries,” he said. Having been in the new role running record companies. UMG “In some countries it can since the turn of the New Year, has got a very stable management To this day, people maintain that it was this helium-voiced Diet happen quite rapidly. In Canada Hole said that his new title was team that’s been together for a Coke ad which murdered Duffy’s burgeoning career, paving the way it’s happening very fast, more a confirmation of work he long time. for then-rival Adele to render the Welsh pop pixie’s record-breaking whereas in Japan it will had already been doing. “We know this is an debut a forgotten blip in time; a scratched, Yorkie-smudged relic probably take a couple of years “We’re quite a stable team unsettling time for EMI people. buried unloved beneath hundreds of Ford Escort passenger seats. before it’s completed. and the role is quite an organic, Boyd Muir, myself and Lucian And yet… fast-forward four years and even the most entrenched “You’ve got lots of different natural progression,” he said. “We [Grainge] were all here when ‘of the people’ artists are realistic about tying up with brands to aid challenges and lots of different have very good country managers Universal bought PolyGram,” he their recording career - and, more importantly, getting away without speeds but, with Japan probably – the CEOs of our countries are pointed out. “I think it was public execution or hipster blogger outcry. When you look back on as the exception, by the end of really talented people. David quite reassuring for [EMI staff] the Metallica/Napster kerfuffle with sweet hindsight, it’s really not 2013 I’d like it successfully Joseph is a brilliant executive in to know that we have some hard to sympathise a little with Hetfield, Ulrich and company. achieved,” he added. the UK and I’ve been working experience of doing this.” Clearly, the understanding that most upcoming music artists aren’t mega-rich materialistic showboats (sorry, Flo Rida, you don’t count here) has sunken in to an audience of similar size to that which previously blindly followed the ‘everything is free’ online mantra without question. Cherry picked for 2013 In other words, the foundation is probably set for an equally articulate artist to Ms. Cooper neé Allen to step forward and UK indie label Cherry Red has Spandau Ballet, The Soup mention the ‘c’ word once again. Naturally, Music Week will be revealed initial details of its 2013 Dragons, Tangerine Dream, asking lots of them to do so this year - but perhaps with a twist. release schedule - the year of its Thunder and Uriah Heep. Punishing your own fans will always be a scary prospect for 35th anniversary. Cherry Red founder Iain artists with Duffy-fragile careers. So how about having a pop at This will include a new album McNay (pictured) said: “Cherry dodgy online ad conduits and giant corporations instead? from Mancunian legends The Red celebrates its 35th Both Yahoo and Google’s ad networks were last week named as Fall - a milestone 30th studio anniversary in 2013 and, as an two of the worst offenders for placing commercials on copyright- effort - as well as new recordings independent record label, I can’t infringing sites. When word got out to Levi’s that they were from The House Of Love, The think of a more exciting time to inadvertently advertising on torrent portals, they freaked. Alarm, Marc Almond, Todd be in this business. With some “We made a point [to our agency], moving forward, that we Rundgren and John Lees’ Barclay more than 500 a year. Key fantastic new signings and some really need to take steps to avoid having these problems again,” James Harvest. catalogue titles for Q1 include great catalogue reissues on the said a clearly spooked rep. All will be released globally by releases from Lynsey De Paul, cards, we will continue with our Super-cool brands and super-cool artists ganging up against a the label via their international Dave Edmunds, Hawkwind, industrious release policy, new, very modern boogey man - all in the name of copyright? network of partners. Francoise Hardy, Greg Lake, The bringing great albums to the 2013, we’re all ears. Cherry Red still releases Partridge Family, Dana Gillespie, masses of music fans who still Tim Ingham, Editor around 50 CDs per month – Freda Payne, Girlschool, love physical product.” Do you have views on this column? Feel free to comment by emailing [email protected] 02-03 NEWS_v7_News and Playlists 08/01/13 19:04 Page 3
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BARFLY OWNER TO EXPAND AT HOME AND ABROAD FOLLOWING MANAGEMENT BUYOUT Independent MAMA targets UK expansion LIVE Escape and Global Gathering. It Manchester, Glasgow and from scratch. He confirmed I BY TIM INGHAM also owns the Camden Barfly Bristol. We’re not really looking that Supervision Management and music magazine The Fly. too far outside that. and Pollination Publishing on’t be surprised to see Responding to the MBO “We have a new tech founder Stephen Budd had now Dmore Barfly venues from HMV - which bought platform that we spent a lot of left the firm, but that artist cropping up in the UK’s then-independent MAMA time and money on, and all the management boss Be Rozzo was major cities in the coming year: Group in 2009 for £46m - James stats that it spits out tell us those still with MAMA. fresh from its MBO from (pictured, right) told Music Week: are the real music cities, along The newly-independent HMV, MAMA Group is ready “It’s fantastic. Every single day with Birmingham.” MAMA employs approximately to expand. for a year I’ve been waking up James said MAMA’s first new 350 people, he said, with 13 MAMA CEO Dean James thinking about our employees, UK venue was expected to be employees now made shareholders. led the £7.3m cash purchase of our partners and whether HMV announced in Q1 2013. The firm’s new board features the promoter and venue owner will maximise the price for us - “Long term, you could three members from LDC and from HMV in December, you also think about potential envisage a situation where we four from MAMA, including backed by funds from Lloyds deals you can’t do, and ultimately have four or five venues in James and MD Rory Bett. Development Capital (LDC). wonder if you’ll still have a job.” Manchester - we’ve only got one On the surprisingly low price Speaking to Music Week, James Music Week understands that there at the moment, we could paid for MAMA to HMV, reiterated that the company now the first news about MAMA’s certainly add another two,” he James said: “Whenever you’re plans to spread its business into potential reach into Asia may be said. “We’ve got half a dozen selling [via an MBO] the price is the US and Asia - but that due as early as next month, but in London, and Manchester is always pretty weighted in the domestic expansion is also very James is already certain about what no less of a music city. Then management’s favour. much on the cards. he wants to achieve in the UK. we’ve currently got nothing “But HMV recently got £32m MAMA Group currently “We’ll be opening one or two in Glasgow. We could have for the Hammersmith Apollo, owns businesses including new [UK] venues per year,” he two or three venues in each of they picked up the thick end of London’s HMV Forum in said. “Our venue operation is those major cities.” another £7m for MAMA - so “They should get up to around Kentish Town and the HMV pretty slick now: we have nine in James told Music Week that they’ve got £40m and they’ve still the £45m mark overall, which is Ritz in Manchester, plus festivals total. We’ll be opening more in MAMA was both looking to got G-A-Y [and London’s only a whisker away from the such as Lovebox, The Great the key cities for us: London, acquire venues and create its own Heaven] to sell. £46m they paid originally.” £1 per month streaming service launches
The first music streaming consumers, but that sentiment platform to ask consumers for isn’t always necessarily shared by just £1 a month has launched - everyone. We’re working with fully licensed by Universal, EMI, Warners on their concerns. We’re Sony, Beggars and PIAS. absolutely confident we’ll work Bloom.fm is the brainchild of with them in future.” the team behind MFlow Music, Bloom CTO Thong Nguyen and offers a combination of a said the app’s other big point of streaming music service with difference from competitors was caching and online radio. its interface: “Design is very The free app - which is important to us. launching on mobile first - A lot of mobile carries a three-tiered price music apps feel structure: for £1 per month users like squished can cache a maximum of just 20 down websites; tracks in a limited ‘wallet’ on we’ve made their mobile, but can swap tracks one people will in and out; £5 takes the wallet up love using.” to 200 tracks; £10, the premium And Bloom tier, allows users to exchange and as too expensive and too music is making people pay - Music Group’s marketing chief store unlimited tracks and enjoy complicated - who are not once they’re attracted to our £1 catalogue. Jonathan Clark full on-demand streaming. engaged with the existing digital price band, we can upsell them to “We don’t commented: Users can also listen to genre- legal music providers,” Bloom.fm £5 and £10.” have Warners “We make it based streaming radio for no cost. founder Oleg Fomenko (pictured) Users will be able to choose on board with effortless to find At the time of going to press, the told Music Week. from a selection of more than 16 us yet, but we’re great music you app was carrying a 5-star user “We wanted to engage with million tracks, licensed by every working with them,” added want to borrow on our app - rating on Apple’s iTunes. this huge audience - that’s where major label - except one. Like Fomenko. “£1 is an important there’s no harsh upselling, but it “We talked to a lot of people our freemium and £1 tier came Vevo before it, Bloom.fm is and very attractive price point allows an organic need to grow who see consuming digital music from. The biggest challenge in having to launch without Warner when it comes to mainstream for more great music.” 04 NEWS_v6_News and Playlists 08/01/13 19:06 Page 6
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I NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN: US album sales slipped by 4% in 2012, after registering a modest year-on-year Universal’s Globe adds to climb in 2011. According to new Nielsen Soundscan figures, overall LP sales in the territory fell from 331m units in 2011 to 316m units in 2012, as television’s 2013 music haul digital growth failed to make up the shortfall caused by physical's decline. MEDIA told Music Week: “It’s challenging CD sales dipped by 13%, a faster fall I BY TOM PAKINKIS - there are more channels than than that seen in 2011 (6%), as digital there have ever been and more album sales grew 14%. Digital niversal’s television ways of viewing. downloads accounted for 37% of total U production arm will add “Not to compare to Big Fat album sales. Digital sales of individual to a promising music TV Gypsy Wedding, but you can see tracks hit a record 1.34bn tracks, but line-up in 2013 with a new series that the right idea can get huge the growth rate slowed from 8.5% in of Launched At Red Bull Studio audiences. The audience is still 2011 to 5%. Adele's 21 was the on Channel 4. there, you just need to come up biggest-seller, shifting an unmatched Following a successful first with new ways of presenting. 4.41m copies last year, having shifted series in 2012, Launched At Red “I’m sure that all the labels 5.82 million units in 2011 when it also Bull Studio will return to the by the station - two episodes (pictured) and Laura Mvula. will be looking forward to the finished as the year's top seller. channel at midnight next week each Wednesday for five weeks. This year’s series will be in opportunity to give artists a really I NEW YEAR HONOURS: UK music ( January 16), shining a spotlight The collaborative project association with fashion brand great performance spot,” he industry execs from PPL, Global Radio on ten artists set to make their between Red Bull Media House, Lacoste L!ve. added. “I think the key thing is and Nordoff Robbins have been mark in the new year, as Globe Productions and Channel On the question of whether having something that’s on handed OBEs in the Queen’s New Year recommended by established 4 will bring up-and-coming TV could still generate truly regularly and doesn’t come and Honours List. PPL chairman Fran artists and tastemakers. talent into the South London- impactful viewing figures as go. Hopefully it’s a format that Nevrkla was awarded the honour for Presented by Radio 1 DJ and based Red Bull Studios including more eyes turn to internet can be with us for the foreseeable ‘services to the British music industry’, Red Bull Studio regular Annie BRIT Critic’s Choice Award platforms, Globe Production future and has a regular date in whilst Classic FM MD Darren Henley Mac, 10 new shows will be aired nominated AlunaGeorge general manager Iain Funnell the calendar.” received his simply for ‘services to music’. Pauline Etkin, the long- standing CEO of Nordoff Robbins was GLOBE IN RUNNING FOR MUCH-ANTICIPATED CHANNEL 4 PRIME TIME MUSIC PROGRAMME awarded her OBE for ‘services to Globe Productions has also enthusiasm to create a music we look back to things like Top also pitching for the C4 slot. music therapy’. David Munns, Nordoff thrown its hat into the ring with vehicle. There’s definitely Of The Pops but I think things “What would be great is Robbins chairman and chairman of a pitch for Channel 4’s prime- excitement there,” Globe really have moved on from then getting back to something that The Music Industry Trusts Award, was time music show, which will be Productions general manager and there needs to be a new kick-starts the weekend again,” awarded his OBE for 'services to decided on the reception of a Iain Funnell told Music Week. way to present what’s added Funnell. “TFI was talk charity and the music industry'. Other run of three Friday night TV “I think [Channel 4] will get happening in the charts or about television and really did notable music figures in the Honours pilots in early 2013. quite a wide variety of formats outside of them as well.” that. Certainly if we made it, we list included artist Catherine (Kate) “I hear they’ve had up to 60 offered to them and hopefully Box TV, which is co-owned by would make it a live Bush, who received a CBE for ‘services submissions from production one of them will be really Channel 4, told Music Week programme. That’s an to music’, as well as classical musician companies so it shows the innovative,” he added. “I know before Christmas that it was important part of it.” Nicola Benedetti, who receieved an MBE for ‘services to Music and to Charity’. Outgoing BRIT School principal Nick Williams was knighted for services to education. BBC Radio 2 backs specialist music I BBC SOUND OF: Sister trio Haim have topped the BBC Sound Of 2013 poll. Haim beat AlunaGeorge, Angel Haze, schedule throughout year ahead Laura Mvula and Chvrches to the accolade. BBC Radio 2 has announced Cheltenham Jazz Festival. The In March, Radio 2 will regular shows on Radio 2 I VIRGIN: High Street entertainment plans to enhance its specialist station’s longest-running broadcast two special episodes of include organ music, dance, retail chain Virgin Megastore France is music programming in 2013 heritage music show, Friday Bob Harris Country, with live musicals, soul, orchestral and due to declare itself insolvent this with a raft of shows focusing on Night Is Music Night, will host music and interviews reflecting big band. week, and has taken steps to folk, jazz, country and blues. a tribute to Georgie Fame. In highlights from C2C: Country Controller of Radio 2 and 6 terminate the lease on its Paris store. Kicking off the year is addition, Jamie Cullum’s weekly to Country - a two-day music Music Bob Shennan said, I BAUER MEDIA: Gary Stein is to take Radio 2’s month-long programme will reflect the festival in the UK. “Radio 2’s dedication to charge of the musical output of the celebration of folk music in the festival in a special show. As part of a wider celebration specialist music is one of the media group's Place Portfolio of run up to the annual Folk Other jazz-focused of blues music on Radio 2, King things that makes it stand out regional radio stations in a new Awards on the 30th January. programmes to be broadcast on Biscuit Time Blues will take the from other stations. director of music role. The weekly Folk Show will the station in 2013 include audience inside blues radio “We have long championed a feature live performances from documentary Jazz At The station KFFA in Arkansas. wide range of genres and this For all of the latest Music stars of the genre throughout Movies - which will explore the Radio 2 will also be involved enriched programming will Industry news, bookmark the month. relationship between jazz and with The Young Brass Musician increase the impact of specialist .com In May, jazz music gets the Hollywood - plus Remembering of the Year final on January 27 music on the station, bring it to a VIP treatment as Radio 2 Humph, which commemorates in Manchester. wider audience and embed it broadcasts live from the Humphrey Lyttelton. Other musical genres with within the heart of the schedule.” Project1_Layout 1 08/01/2013 14:21 Page 1
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BREAKOUT musicweek.com/playlist PALMA VIOLETS SALES STATISTICS 180 (Rough Trade) CHART WEEK 01 (album, February 25) Compiled from Official Charts Company sales data by Music Week Contact: Jamie Woolgar, Rough Trade VS LAST WEEK SINGLES ARTIST ALBUMS COMPILATIONS TOTAL ALBUMS [email protected] SALES 4,137,532 1,721,457 390,106 2,111,563 BLAISE PREVIOUS WEEK 5,696,414 2,761,341 746,138 3,507,479 The 16-year-old GEORGE MAPLE singer/songwriter from South West % CHANGE 27.4% 37.7% 47.7% 39.8% Uphill (Unsigned) London has already YEAR TO DATE SINGLES ARTIST ALBUMS COMPILATIONS TOTAL ALBUMS (demo) been hailed as a SALES 4,137,532 1,721,457 390,106 2,111,563 Contact: Sophie Bloggs, Club Class ‘one to watch’ by [email protected] MTV Base, Channel PREVIOUS YEAR 3,654,760 1,676,337 294,722 1,971,059 4, Kiss 100 and Capital FM. She’s % CHANGE +13.2% +2.7% +32.4% +7.1% JESSIE WARE currently promoting If You're Never Gonna Move her second single (PMR) Thunderstorm from LANG LANG: THE ART OF BENG A VIRTUOSO (single, January 28) forthcoming EP Sing APPOINTMENT Friday, January 11 – BBC4, 8.20pm – 9.15pm Contact: Beth Drake, Toast Out Loud to be A behind-the-scenes insight into the life and mind of acclaimed pianist [email protected] Lang Lang. As he journeys throughout China, the US and Europe he released on TO VIEW reveals the influence Franz Liszt has had upon him. February 25. Catch her at January’s POP CHARTS BRITANNIA: 60 YEARS OF THE TOP 10 SHORT STORIES Breakout event at Saturday, January 12 – BBC4, 11pm – 12.30am On The Way (Young Turks) Barfly in Camden on The evolution of feelings and attitudes towards the British singles chart, in celebration of its 60th anniversary. Documenting changes from the 1952 (single, January 28) the 31st. NME chart via Pick and Top of the Pops through to the Radio One chart Contact: Jon Wilkinson, XL Get on the guest list show of today. [email protected] at musicweek.com/ breakout RADIOHEAD: MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY Tuesday, January 15 – Sky Arts 1, 9pm – 10pm Documentary charting a year in the life of the band, featuring interviews, MAN LIKE ME concert performances and behind-the-scenes footage. Pillow Talk (The Beats/ TAGGED Cartoon Records) (single, March 4) NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY MUSO.com Contact: Jon Bills, Murray Chalmers PR PIRATES’ [email protected] BAY OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON January 11 2013
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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP INK SPOTS THE MAGIC CHART WEEK 01 Too busy to read the music press? NUMBERS ARTIST SINGLES ARTIST ALBUMS Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you. Amaze colleagues and Sony % Universal On the front bamboozle rivals with 30.3 37.5% of this Sony these head-spinning facts Universal 49.4% 35.9% month’s We and figures... Warner 12.6% Warner 17.4% Love Pop magazine, EMI 3.4% EMI 4% Others Olly Murs’ Others 4.3% 5.2% “secret 38 romance” is revealed, The Is the average Metacritic Wanted are score for Chris Brown’s “muckier than ever” and there’s a DIGITAL VS “cuteness overload” with a new 1D Fortune – making it the PHYSICAL “bromance”. worst-reviewed album of 100 WkS 49-01 Inside, the gossip pages say Cher 17% 14.6% Lloyd might be joining the X Factor the year 80 20.6% 12% 57.1% The UK market share for all judging panel and Justin Bieber is apparently considering bottling his 60 albums in the own sweat to auction off for charity. past five weeks 40 A lesson in Union J reveals the 55.74m CD “world’s next massive boyband” like 20 Coco Pops, Legoland and 19-year- Digital songs were sold in 78.2% 82.1% 84.6% 87.2% 42.5% DIGITAL old George reportedly has a teddy the week ending December 0 called Noddy that he takes with him “everywhere”. 30 in the US - the single- Austin Mahone is an American largest week for download pop star who’s “about to be huge” TOP 5 STORIES ON MUSIC WEEK POLL and is in the business for “the girls” song sales ever according to This week we asked... he explains, while according to Nielsen Soundscan MUSICWEEK.COM Do you think 2013 album sales can beat 2012’s figures? insiders, Harry Styles and Taylor Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending January 7 Vote at www.musicweek.com Swift’s “secret fling” is apparently no more. Who's placing ads on illegal download sites? In the reviews pages, Bruno 01 Thursday, January 3 Mars’ Unorthodox Jukebox is given 3 It's official: 2012's albums were better than 2011's a B+, with the promise of lyrics that Of the UK’s top four best- 02 Thursday, January 3 allude to “major girl trubs” while 03 Barlow shuts Future Records, £4m loss reported Florence + the Machine’s latest selling vinyls of 2012 are Wednesday, January 2 track Lover To Lover is a not so released by XL Recordings The xx album named best-selling vinyl of 2012, format's sales complimentary C: “Frantic plink- 04 increase YoY by 15.3% Friday, January 4 plonking of the piano coupled with US charts: One-track downloads hit record high a manic harp is all too much 05 Friday, January 4 YES: 49% NO: 51% for us” says the mag. 1st Track to be released by LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST Azealia Banks in 2013 was swiftly followed by a Twitter @irvingazoff I picked today to resign so @AZEALIABANKS WOW.... did angel @costerdellolz Best Out of Office of the I could screw up a bunch of journalists haze just threaten to cut me because day - 'I am out the office until January spat with fellow female rap- new years eve. @bwerde was dead of a very general tweet i sent about 14th August' @hbrampton (Claire per Angel Haze right. (Irving Azoff, Azoff Music non-new yorkers claiming NY?! Coster, Atlantic Records) Friday, Management) Tuesday, January 1 (Azealia Banks) Thursday, January 3 January 4
@AngelHaze Ill send it to you. RT @Helena_NM In fact, 4 out of the Top @KimDotcom OK, Labels didn't fake @AZEALIABANKS if you have a screen- 5 US albums of the year are by UK 15.3% Youtube views. But they fake account- shot of angel haze's "threat" send to acts, Adele, 1D and Mumford and Increase for vinyl sales since ing, artist paychecks, smiles, piracy [email protected] #YOUGO- Sons. Well done UK music! (Helena losses and honesty. (Kim Dotcom) INGTOJAILNOW ! (Angel Haze) Kosinski, Nielsen Music) Friday, 2011. A total of 389,000 Wednesday, January 2 Thursday, January 3 January 4 LPs sold during 2012 @hannah_dudley That moment where @SimonMusic Listening to new @LouisaWorskett To be fair to errr, cer- means sales have now you realise you've left your @Spotify @elizacarthy album 'Laylam', she tain people, Angel Haze probably grown for the fifth running and you think "what the FUCK teamed up with 3 other very fine should've topped the BBC thing am I listening to". #concentrating- English folk musicians, a good start to (Louisa Worskett, MBC PR) Friday, successive year toohard (Hannah Dudley, EMI) the year! (Simon Rugg, PIAS) January 4 Wednesday, January 2 Thursday, January 3 @DaddymeatBugger! Just turned up an @sebmysko 1st Jan - officially the qui- @Stickle It's 10.30 on day 1 back at hour early for train to Brussels. 8 etest day on email. Even the spam- work... Already seen Dappy. Sure. Obviously bit over keen to get to the mers have chilled out. (Sebastian (Vicky Beercock, Bacardi) Friday, party #happybirthdaykenny Years since the last non-UK Mysko, Rising Digital) Wednesday, January 4 (Peter Thompson, PIAS) Saturday, January 5 victor topped the BBC January 2 Sound Of poll. Californian Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews trio Haim have been named 2013’s best new act DATA DIGEST - Spread2_v11_News and Playlists 07/01/13 12:28 Page 8
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GETTING ALL KEYED UP December 12, O2 Arena, London: The Black Keys entertain their biggest ever UK crowd as they kick off a two-night stint in London.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK THE TASTEMAKERS Today’s opinion formers predict tomorrow’s headline acts SYNC STORY VICTORIA O'HAGAN STEREOBOARD The tale behind a standout sync deal in the industry this week… Plastique • A Paper Cut From a Paper Kiss (Overkill Media) A snarling, dirty little battle of a song that enigmatically challenges ageism and sexism; A Paper Cut From A Paper Kiss fuses rock, electro and pop and will entrance any listener with its brains, balls and dark sense of humour.
LIBBY MONÉ ARTROCKER/CLASH/TLOBF/NME The Cramatics • Like Gold (Unsigned) This Bournemouth based four-piece’s debut single is all punchy guitars with a sing- along ‘woo-hoo’ chorus. A buzz surrounding them has earned these boys support slots for Maverick Sabre and Rizzle Kicks. Next year looks to be a breakthrough one for them. JOHN PROBYN LIVE NATION Gabriella Jones • Hey You (Unsigned) An 18-year-old singer-songwriter who possesses a big voice and big talent. The range and power of Gabriella’s voice is stunning and some of her lyrics are delightful. Her live gig experience is growing, as is her fan base, so no doubt we will Artist Married To The Sea be seeing a lot more of her in the future. Track name Mutiny BECCA WREN SBTV Composer Nicholas Duckett/Simon Turner/Greg Macoy/Sam Walkerdine Campaign Gossip Girl Series Six KillSonik . Where The River Runs Black EP (MTA) https://twitter.com/KillSonik Publisher Sentric Music An epic EP from dubstep heavy hitters KillSonik, seamlessly fusing dubstep, rock and atmospheric sounds with a dark edge and high impact production. The tracks Client Gossip Girl - Broadcast on CW TV Network have been hurting the festive season dancefloors, and will no doubt continue to Usage Gossip Girl - series six, episode nine satisfy the ravers well into the 2013 festival season. If you're into darker dubstep Key execs Simon Pursehouse (Sentric Music), Josh Kessler (Downtown Music Services)
Bucks Music Group has Plan B manager Sam Gossip Girl has a history of featuring emerging UK music, using songs SIGNS O’ THE TIMES signed London-based, UK Eldridge and Milo Cordell) by artists such as The Kooks, The Ting Tings and Friendly Fires at the funky scene production and joint venture is US singer- earlier stages of their careers. Via their partnership with Downtown writing partners, Darius songwriter Daughn Gibson. Music, independent publisher Sentric Music had three tracks placed on Ellington-Forde and James He is currently recording a the episode that aired in the US on December 10. Grant aka Ill Blu to a world- new album for SubPop. Simon Pursehouse (pictured) explained: “This sync wide exclusive publishing A second related joint is a great example of how fruitful Sentric Music’s rela- agreement. venture between BMG tionship with Downtown Music has been over the Ill Blu are also remixers Chrysalis UK and Eldridge’s past couple of years. They’ve landed syncs for our cat- for the likes of Hot Chip, Urok Management has alogue in a number of TV shows including Skins USA, Cheryl Cole and Roll Deep. signed a publishing Parenthood and Keeping Up With The Kardashians - Ill Blu will also belaunch- deal with Gemini, the but landing three tracks in Gossip Girl is definitely a ing their own label imprint, DJ/producer who has highlight for me. Plastik Cups in 2013. remixed for Lana Del Rey “I was really happy that Gossip Girl gave a spot to Married To The Left to right: Simon Platz (Bucks MD), Harri Davies (Bucks The first writer signing to and Emeli Sande and is now Sea as well; we’ve been working with them for the best part of five A&R), Aaron Mensah (co-manager), James Grant (Ill Blu) a new BMG Chrysalis UK signed to Island Records as years now and hopefully this placement will give them some much Darius Ellington Forde (Ill Blu) and Merok Records (run by an artist. deserved exposure in the States.” DATA DIGEST - Spread2_v11_News and Playlists 07/01/13 12:28 Page 9
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ON THE RADAR ESSENTIAL INFO DISCLOSURE RELEASES DISCLOSURE ARE becoming one of see Latch do so well. Charting was 2010 Single: Offline Dexterity (Moshi the most recognisable new forces definitely something that none of Moshi Records) in dance crossover music. us saw coming.” 2011 Single: Carnival/I Love… That For those not yet familiar with Disclosure’s building buzz has You Know (Transparent) the duo, they describe their sound landed them New Year ‘one to 2012 Singles: as “somewhere between house watch’ accolades from a number Tenderly/Flow (Make Mine) and UK garage, more recently of tastemaking outlets, including Latch (PMR) including vocals.” iTunes and esteemed dance music 2012 EP: The Face EP (Greco-Roman) The sibling pairing of Guy and platform Beatport. March 2013 Single: TBC Howard Lawrence have been Tracing the journey to their now- releasing singles and EPs for two record label, Disclosure explained: LABEL years. Their latest offering – Latch “Moshi Moshi heard our first two “Then we signed our record focus now for 2013: “We've been PMR - Ben Parmar/Natasha Mann featuring vocalist Sam Smith – songs on MySpace and bluntly deal with PMR [home of Jessie doing shows most weeks of 2012. infiltrated the mainstream chart offered to immediately release Ware] because it felt obvious when Other than that, we’ve been writing MANAGEMENT Top 30, peaking at No.11. them both, which was great! they approached us. It's been a and doing sessions with artists Method Music - Jack Street/Sam Evitt Speaking to Music Week, the “Greco Roman released our The great home for us so far.” for our album.” young DJ/producers admit: “We Face EP and we had been a fan of It had been a busy year just The duo’s debut LP is due along- LIVE were very surprised and proud to their releases for some time. gone for the duo but there’s a new side a new single in the spring. 2013 dates: UK tour in Jan/Feb/March
HE SAID / SHE SAID TAKE A BOW TEAM OLLY MURS Label: Epic/SyCo I believe some Social Media: Hannah Maldon, Sony General manager: Richard Connell “record compa- National press: Jon Bills, Murray A&R: Paul Lisberg & Tops Henderson, Chalmers - Murray Chalmers PR Heads of Epic/A&R nies are paying Regional press: Gordon Duncan - APB some artists that Manager: Richard Griffiths, Harry Magee, Sarah Thomas - Online press: Jenna Knight - Lucid Modest! Management rate – Universal National radio: Mark Murphy - among them Marketing Manager: Alice Frost, Sony Dawn Promotions ” Head of Promotions: Pete Black, Sony Regional radio: Bob Herman - BH Promo Robbie Williams co-manager Tim Clark tells The Guardian that Universal may THE LOWDOWN Album: Right Place Right Time Head of Digital: be matching Beggars’ offer to give certain artists 50% of streaming revenue Ebony Rhiney-James, Sony TV: Michelle O'Connor - Birdgirl Highest chart position: No.1
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10 Music Week 11.01.13 www.musicweek.com THE BIG INTERVIEWPETULA CLARK ‘WE ALL KNOW JUST HOW DIFFICULT THIS BUSINESS IS’ She was one of John Lennon’s favourite singers, and now 80-year-old Petula Clark is back with a new album of covers and originals - but she says she has no interest in becoming a nostalgia act
record producer John Williams, whose CV includes beautifully produced. The voice is well recorded; I TALENT ABOVE the likes of The Housemartins, The Proclaimers, Ruby Petula | just went to the microphone and sang it. There were I BY PAUL WILLIAMS Simple Minds and The Waterboys, has taken her in Despite debuting one or two bits of harmony, but if you pick it apart on BBC radio in a whole new direction and created the ambitious 1942, a now 80- it’s really quite simple. It’s just got something. It’s f you tuned into Jools Holland’s Hootenanny on album Lost In You, which will be released by Sony year-old Clark is got an atmosphere to it which I like.” determined to INew Year’s Eve you would have witnessed the first on February 25. keep things fresh When it came to the whole album Clark says public outing of a remarkable musical rebirth. Clark tells Music Week she and Williams had the two of them never had a specific plan to make it Incredibly, the performance aired 70 years after recorded a few tracks together some years back modern-sounding. “It just came out that way,” she the singer in question made her broadcast debut on while he was an executive at Sanctuary Records suggests. “I wasn’t forcing myself to sound the BBC, heralding the start of an extraordinary before they decided making a whole album together contemporary. The songs are the way they are and I career that has included countless hit records in the sounded like a good idea. loved singing them.” UK, US and across the world. “He said, ‘Come and do something in my studio,’” An artist of her standing and years could, at this However, what she is about to unleash will add recalls Clark, who performed three songs on Jools’ point in her career, have easily gone for the safe another exciting new chapter to the story - a brand end-of-year BBC2 extravaganza. “His studio is totally option, perhaps making an album of faithful re- new studio album on which she not only covers irresistible, a little Wendy House at the bottom of his recordings of her biggest hits or covers of other Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy but on one track sounds garden in west London. You can hear the birds on classic songs. Such a creatively redundant idea like, well frankly, Lana Del Rey. one of the tracks. It’s kind of enchanting.” would never get past Clark, though. Step forward please Petula Clark. The pair had no particular musical agenda for “There’s no way that was going to happen. No The singer of Downtown, Don’t Sleep In The the album, but one early track, Cut Copy Me, way,” she says firmly. “I didn’t want to do it, Subway and countless other classics is hardly proved an important template. Totally John knew I didn’t want to do it and he didn’t either mounting what you might call a comeback. Despite contemporary, it immediately brings to mind Lana so we were on the same playing field right from reaching her 80th birthday in November, she has Del Rey. Even with all the years of experience the start. Exactly what it would be I didn’t know, continued to remain active with new recordings, behind Clark, it stretched the octogenarian vocally. but we felt our way through it really. There were a concerts and much else besides. But a pairing with “It’s a very simple song,” she explains. “I think it’s couple of suggestions I wasn’t crazy about, we tried BigInterview_v7_News and Playlists 07/01/13 09:40 Page 19
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them and they didn’t work.” it’ and two weeks later we did.” One idea that did win approval was tackling Clark’s new album also features covers of John Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, breathing new life into a Lennon’s Imagine and Elvis Presley hit Love Me six-year-old song that has become a modern classic. Tender, while its new compositions include Next Not that Clark was aware. To You, co-penned by Simon Wilcox who wrote “I had a feeling I had heard it somewhere and Northern Lights on the Twilight Saga: Breaking John said, ‘Of course, it’s a classic.’ A classic? I said, Dawn soundtrack, and a very personal song in ‘It’s interesting.’ He played me the original and I Reflections with lyrics by Clark herself. thought it was good. I liked it. It was different to “That was John’s idea,” she says of Reflections. anything else we were doing. I said, ‘I don’t know “I liked the idea of taking a piece of classical whether I can sing this.’ But, the thing is, once I got music and putting a lyric to it. He chose that the hang of it, the timing of it, there was no other piece and he said about me putting a personal way to sing it. It was just great.” lyric to it. Then I thought about Wales [where her Crazy was one of the songs Clark performed on mother was from]. It is actually in Wales where Hootenanny, along with Downtown. Since its music touched me for the first time. release in 1964, the multi-award winning single has “I was a bit of a loner child and I would become her signature tune, reaching No 2 in the wander around the mountain side just singing and UK and topping the Billboard Hot 100 in the making up stories in my head and playing around States the following year as well as becoming a big in the stream. My first memories of music were hit across the world. As Williams assembled the there in the mountains and in the chapel where I songs from the new album, mixing new repertoire sang for the first time in public. [Reflections] is a with choice covers, he saw her re-recording the very special piece. There’s nothing else like it.” Tony Hatch-penned evergreen as a great Seven decades on from that musical introduction opportunity. She simply was not having it. in Wales, Clark now finds herself in a world “He said, ‘I think we should do Downtown.’ I dominated by female artists – and she has been an suppose it was midstream and I said, ‘No, no way. admirer of a number of them who have emerged in What’s the point?’” she recalls. “I walked away from the past few years. it. I left for Paris to do promotion on a French “I was a total, total fan of Amy Winehouse, album, which I recorded last year, and when I got right from the very beginning,” she says. “Come to ABOVE back, he said, ‘Have a listen to this’ and I said, Crazy | Clark’s New that, Adele, too. I saw her on Jools’ show and I ‘That’s nice. What is it?’ ‘It’s Downtown.’” album Lost In You “I was a total fan of Amy Winehouse thought, ‘Yes.’ The amazing voice, amazing attitude features covers Williams had slowed the track right down - spanning the ages right from the very beginning. Adele when she sang. It’s not just a voice. There’s giving Clark the opportunity to bring something including Gnarls something else she has that’s going on and Barkley’s hit single. too: it’s not just the voice. There’s fresh to a song she had been singing for almost something else she has that’s going on probably always has because it’s coming from half a century. somewhere real inside her. There are lots of great “It was actually so refreshing, it was almost like and probably always has because it’s singers around really, an awful lot. What happened singing a new song,” she says. “I’m sure there are coming from somewhere real inside her. to Duffy? She’s beautiful, too. She did all the shows people who will think, ‘Why did she do that?’ I’ve There are lots of great singers around.” in the States and she was stunning.” always felt Downtown is not a jolly song anyway. PETULA CLARK As for her own new album, Clark says she There’s melancholy to it. ‘When you are alone and would love to see it in the chart “but we all know life is making you lonely…’ I’ve felt that. Get out “He said, ‘You really should be recording again how difficult this business is and I don’t have and walk down the street and see people, do in English’ and I said ‘Yes, but we’ve got to find the illusions about it”. something and, yeah, I think the song is good right song.’ He said, ‘I’ve started writing this, I’ve “I’m going to go out and defend it anyway,” she enough to stand up to this treatment.” got a title and the tune.’ I said, ‘I’ll go and make a says. “We have concerts lined up where I will be Clark can still vividly recall when Tony Hatch cup of tea and you play it’ and I was in the kitchen doing old stuff and new stuff. I don’t chuck out the first played her the song - she was living in Paris at when I first heard it. It was Tony playing it. I came baby with the bathwater, but I need to do fresh things a time when she was hugely successful in France as back and said, ‘I love that tune, love that title. Write for me. I just can’t go out and do, ‘Remember this a French-language artist. a lyric up to the standard of that tune and we’ll do folks?’ I couldn’t do it. I would really rather stop.” LEGENDARY ENCOUNTERS CLARK’S CHANCE MEETINGS WITH LENNON AND ELVIS
An encounter with Elvis Presley alongside others for many of her French hits sung in “I just told him the story, then we had a Karen Carpenter in the King’s dressing the native tongue. conversation about it and actually about room. A chance contribution to the “I thought, ‘This is great. I can do life and it was good. I said, ‘What do you recording of John Lennon’s Give Peace A French and English. Everybody will be think John?’ and he said ‘Oh, fuck ‘em.’” Chance. Such is the rich and incredible life happy.’ It turned out to be war in the Lennon then suggested she grab a Petula Clark has lived. theatre. When I sang in French the English glass of wine in the living room and there Clark offers personal tributes to both people were standing up and saying, ‘No’ she was confronted by a group of people, Lennon and Presley on the new album Lost and even more so the French when I sang including Timothy Leary, rehearsing the In You, covering Imagine and Love Me in English. It was total agony and I didn’t chorus to Give Peace A Chance, which was Tender. In the case of Lennon, she recalls know what to do. So I thought, ‘I have to about to be recorded. him giving her some much-needed help talk to somebody who has nothing to do As for Presley, she met him during a He was flirting, seriously flirting. I have to and support at a time in the mid-Sixties with me, somebody who I don’t know who “girly night out” in Vegas with Karen say he was drop dead gorgeous. He was very, when she was facing a career crisis. can maybe see it’ and I knew John was in Carpenter after they saw his concert. very handsome at that moment. I had been Her problem was that she was playing a town.” “We were invited back to his dressing asked to do a film with him at some point series of shows in Montreal where some of It was at the time of John and Yoko’s room and it got very flirty indeed, so much and somebody up there said, ‘No.’ Probably the audience were there for her English- bed-in and she found them, appropriately so that I scuttled Karen out of the dressing my husband! He was flirty, but a real language hits such as Downtown and enough, in their hotel apartment in bed. room. Elvis thought that was really funny. Southern gentleman at the same time.” Analysis_v15_News and Playlists 08/01/13 17:10 Page 12
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EDITORIAL
Chasing down the digital dream
ONE OF THE UK album market’s most sought-after prizes is rising digital sales eventually making up for the shortfall in the CD business. However, last year that goal moved further away from being realised. For the first time since digital albums started generating meaningful retail numbers sales grew at a slower percentage rate than the CD market dropped off. The difference was quite pronounced with download sales up 14.8%, while CD declined by a record 19.5% with around 17 million fewer units sold compared to the previous year. Admittedly, the increase in digital albums sales took the market to another new high, but the rise was far less spectacular than in previous years when the dip in CD sales was also less pronounced. In 2011, for example, digital rose 26.6% as CD fell by 12.6% and the year before that 30.6% additional albums were legally downloaded as CD albums declined by 12.4%.
“Of course, none of the 2012 sales figures issued last week by the BPI/Official Charts Company for the UK and Nielsen for the US takes into account other ways that consumers are now accessing recorded music. The increasing traffic on streaming sites EXECUTIVE SUMMARY needs to be considered for a full picture” I Emeli Sande has top-selling artist album but her debut Our From a statistical perspective it is clearly harder to post a big Version Of Events is 2012’s percentage increase as the digital albums market grows every only million seller year as each time you have to build on record numbers. But the I Album sales drop 11.2% to 100.5 far-more-mature digital albums market in the States is still million units as CD declines 19.5% managing it, climbing by 14% last year as CD dropped 13%. That and digital is up 14.8% decline for the leading physical format is much lower than what I Artist albums slip 15.1% but occurred in the UK, although comes after a number of years compilations revive with 7.2% when the market there suffered far worse annual declines than hike led by Now! 83 on this side of the Atlantic. I Gotye featuring Kimbra’s Of course, none of the 2012 sales figures issued last week by Somebody That I Used To Know top the BPI/Official Charts Company for the UK and by Nielsen SoundScan for the US takes into account other ways consumers single as market lifts 6.0% to new are now accessing recorded music, so the increasing traffic annual high of 188.6 million units on the likes of streaming sites needs to be taken into account I Universal claims 46% of year’s when evaluating the figures. That, though, should not hide the Top 100 artist albums and 48% fact the albums market here last year deteriorated at an of top singles alarming rate, far bigger than can be explained away by having to follow Adele’s record numbers. One big concern should be the significant drop-off at the top SALES STATISTICS 2012 end of the market. While the overall 11.2% fall in album sales Source: Official Charts Company was bad enough, among the year’s Top 10 artist sellers the SALES PERIOD SINGLES TOTAL ALBUMS ARTIST ALBUMS COMPS ‘UNM.. decline was much worse – down 44.2% on what the 2012 188,564,734 100,484,979 77,271,748 20,562,432 2,650,799 corresponding titles collectively sold in 2011. Even if you exclude 2011 177,914,016 113,186,130 90,972,816 19,190,155 3,023,159 21 from the calculations the drop is still 35.8%. No one reason is likely behind this hefty drop with increasing pressure on consumers’ disposable incomes surely partly at play % CHANGE +6.0% 11.2% 15.1% +7.2% N/A as is how they now utilise their entertainment budgets. The acts END YEAR CD ALBUMS DIGITAL ALBUMS VINYL ALBUMS OTHER and releases in the market further have to be a factor, although the fact four of the five biggest-selling albums in the US last year 2012 69,405,472 30,543,612 392,537 143,362 were by British acts shows when we get A&R right we really get 2011 86,176,967 26,615,214 340,975 52,970 it right. Paul Williams, Head of Business Analysis Do you have views on this column? Feel free to comment by emailing [email protected] % CHANGE 19.5% +14.8% +15.1% +177.3% Analysis_v15_News and Playlists 08/01/13 17:10 Page 13
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ARTIST ALBUMS MARKET ENDURES A BUMPY RIDE Following Adele’s record year was always going to be tricky for the market - but it wasn’t all bad news
ALBUMS units. That meant around 13.7 million fewer artist commercial division managing director Brian Rose albums were sold compared to the previous year, the who notes: “When we look at the market we need to I BY PAUL WILLIAMS equivalent of more than three-and-half times what change the metric - we really need to look at all these year after Adele delivered the highest Adele’s 21 sold in 2011. things a little bit differently and add in the growth on A calendar sales for an album in history the streaming and subscription. If you piece that market returned to harsh reality in “A few years ago you’d have seen three of four altogether, whilst the market is still incredibly tough spectacular fashion during 2012. albums selling a million copies. The recession has and in transition, there are more positives Just one artist release across the whole of the than negatives.” year sold more than 1 million copies – Emeli really played a part in people’s buying habits” Among the very biggest artist sellers the decline Sande’s Our Version Of Events – and it did so with NICK GATFIELD, SONY in album sales was even greater, with collective sales
the lowest sales for an end-of-year top seller in the ABOVE of 2012’s Top 10 selling 44.2% fewer copies than the 18-year history of the Official Charts Company. For BPI chairman Tony Wadsworth, the 2012 The market lacked equivalent titles managed in 2011. Even if you take an album as big as The Virgin album had shifted 1.39 million numbers underline the importance of looking afresh as Take That’s out of the equation the 2011 sales of Adele’s 21, copies by the end of December, 36.9% of what at how the quarterly and annual figures are Progress in 2012 - which by anyone’s reckoning were exceptional, and with Emeli Sande’s Adele’s 21 sold to top 2011’s best-sellers list, and presented as they currently do not represent the Our Version Of Sande’s album the picture does not get much better. with sales notably down on other recent end-of-year changes happening in the market as well as they Events the only million seller No 1s, including Take That’s Progress (1.84 million) could do. The end-of-year figures as they are “We were missing this year something that could and Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream (1.63 currently presented “directionally” threw up no real do 2m out of the block, missing a Take That million). surprises for him. However, by the standards of 2012 Our Version “We are in this transition and that means we also album, that stature of release. It was a pretty Of Events was a runaway best seller, commanding a have to change the way we measure things or lean release schedule for artist albums and if you 77.1% sales lead over the rest of the market with its what we actually look at. The mix of how we make couple that with we are benchmarking against nearest challenger – Adele’s 21 – trailing it by year- money from music is changing and rapidly and at the Adele year then the declines look a little bit end by more than 600,000 copies. some point we need to change the way we look at it,” Sande’s album proved to be the one real he says. sharper than maybe they should” highlight in what was an exceptionally poor year for Wadsworth’s thoughts are backed by Universal BRIAN ROSE, UNIVERSAL big album sellers, reflected by it being the only artist title to surpass seven figures. Since the Official TOP 100 CHART POSITIONS BY CORPORATE GROUP TOP 100 CHART POSITIONS BY CORPORATE GROUP Charts Company began in 1994 in every previous COMPANY TOP 10 20 40 100 COMPANY TOP 10 20 40 100 year at least three artist albums have sold more than UNIVERSAL 6 12 19 48 UNIVERSAL 4 8 17 46 1 million copies, reaching a peak in 2000 when The Beatles’ 1 led a record 12 artist albums to SONY 1 2 9 24 SONY 2 8 12 31 millionaire’s row. Even in 2011 four artist albums WARNER 2 4 7 17 WARNER 2 2 7 12 reached the magic million mark – Adele’s 21 and 1 1 3 8 1 1 2 3 19, Michael Buble’s Christmas and Bruno Mars’ EMI EMI Doo-Wops & Hooligans. INDIES 0 1 2 3 INDIES 1 1 2 8 “A few years ago there would have been two or The above covers the Top 100 singles for 2012 The above covers the Top 100 artist albums for 2012 three or four albums doing that kind of volume and there just haven’t been,” says Sony UK chairman TOP 100 BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN TOP 100 BY CORPORATE GROUP TOP 100 BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN TOP 100 BY CORPORATE GROUP and CEO Nick Gatfield who reckons a combination of lack of consumer money and not enough quality repertoire were the main reasons behind album sales sinking by 11.2% last year to SINGLES SINGLES ALBUMS ALBUMS 100,484,979 units. The drop would have been even bigger if it were not for compilations, which turned around years of decline to post a 7.2% rise to
20,562,432 units (see separate piece). UK 44.5% (44%) USA 36.5% (42%) UNIVERSAL 48% (40%) SONY 24% (22%) UK 54% (57%) USA 28.25% (24.25%) UNIVERSAL 46% (40%) SONY 31% (31%) REST OF WORLD 12% (6%) REST OF EUROPE 7% (8%) WARNER 17% (15%) EMI 8% (13%) REST OF EUROPE 5.75% REST OF WORLD 12% (10%) WARNER 12% (12%) EMI 3% (8%) “The recession really has played a part in INDIES 3% (10%) (8.75%) INDIES 8% (9%)
people’s purchasing habits,” he adds. “You see the TOP 100 BY TYPE OF ARTIST TOP 100 BY GENRE TOP 100 BY TYPE OF ARTIST TOP 100 BY GENRE decline in volume, particularly in Q4, and our Sony Pictures counterparts say similar stories about people’s choices about where they are spending their entertainment pound. People are being much more SINGLES SINGLES ALBUMS ALBUMS cautious and that is being reflected in the volumes in the market place.” Thanks in part to Adele’s record-breaking success, album sales in 2011 fell by just 5.6% with GROUPS/DUOS 55% (50%) MALE SOLOISTS 21% (21%) POP 51% (39%) CONT URBAN 22% GROUPS/DUOS 40% (35%) FEMALE SOLOISTS 31% (32%) POP 40% (40%) ROCK 28% (21%) the artist albums market down by 2.4%. A year later FEMALE SOLOISTS 24% (29%) DANCE 18% (18%) ROCK 6% (5%) MALE SOLOISTS 29% (33%) CONT URBAN 15% (18%) MOR 12% (11%) MOR 1% (0%) COUNTRY 1% (0%) DANCE 2% (4%) CLASSICAL 1% (3%) artist albums sales slumped by 15.1% to 77,271,748 COUNTRY 1% (0%) JAZZ 1% (1%) Source for graphs and data: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data Analysis_v15_News and Playlists 08/01/13 17:10 Page 14
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“There’s a shift in buying habits for certain types of artist from the declines look a little bit sharper than maybe market has held up a lot better than people they should.” predicted, while Beggars’ Mills says it is important albums to singles - but it doesn’t apply to all kinds of music” Beggars Group chairman Martin Mills, whose not to forget that, despite the decline, the bulk of MARTIN MILLS, BEGGARS XL Beggars operation was behind 21, suggests the album sales are still physical. sales decline among the biggest sellers is down to Digital albums are clearly occupying part of the The combined sales of the second to 10th top artist the changing ways people are consuming music. space being vacated by CDs, but they are not yet sellers of 2012 shifted 35.8% fewer copies than those “I suspect the reduced sales at the top of the expanding quick enough to even come close to in the same positions in 2011, while among the Top market are simply because those are the preserve of making up the decline. 40 top sellers the drop was 33.1% and among the big selling radio hit records which people tend to In fact, their growth slowed last year from year-end Top 100 26.5%. consume as tracks these days,” he says. 26.6% achieved in 2011 to 14.8%, meaning the The spectacular decline at the top end of the “The fundamental shift you are seeing is a shift download market is now increasing at a slower rate market in just a year is further illustrated by how for certain kinds of music away from album buying than the one for CD is decreasing. Our Version Of some of 2012’s top albums sold compared to their towards track buying, but there are other kinds of Events was the top digital seller with 313,370 2011 equivalents. They include Adele’s 21, which music that doesn’t apply to.” downloads sold. added 786,424 copies to its mammoth total in 2012 Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) Sony’s Gatfield argues the only way for the to make it the year’s second top seller, but 12 ABOVE chairman Paul Quirk also questions the standard of industry to emerge from its current problems is to months earlier that would only have been good One Direction’s 2012’s front-line albums schedule, noting: “A lot of A&R its way out. Take Me Home enough for 10th place on the year-end chart. Syco was the fifth retailers were a little disappointed at the strength of “That has always been my philosophy,” he act One Direction ranked fifth with Take Me biggest-selling the quality of the releases in the final quarter. We says. “The way to boost the business is you go album of 2012, Home but with 32.2% fewer sales than Coldplay’s while Coldplay’s hope 2013 has some major releases.” back to the fundamentals: finding great acts and Parlophone album Mylo Xyloto managed to attain 2011 release Mylo What unquestionably was the main cause of this trying to take them to market in a smart and Xyloto made the the same position in 2011. Top 10 sharp decline – a lack of blockbuster titles, financially prudent way.” “There are not enough million-plus sellers and notwithstanding – was the drop in CD sales Although at a much lower sales level, the vinyl not enough new artist breaks doing significant sharply gathering pace. market expanded by 15.1% during the year to volumes,” says Universal’s Rose. “We were missing The CD market shrank by 19.5% year-on-year 392,537 units with 36 titles selling more than 1,000 this year something that could do 2 million out the in 2012 to 69,405,472 units, a much faster decline copies on the format during the year. block, missing a Take That album, that stature of than happened during the previous two years with “Vinyl is relatively small, but it’s important for release. It has been a pretty lean release schedule on the sector having those retailers who sell it,” says Quirk. “That is the artist albums market and if you couple that with been down by 12.6% in 2011 and 12.4% in 2010. going to be a major source of joy for them that vinyl we are benchmarking against the Adele year then However, ERA’s Quirk reckons the physical is getting stronger.”
THE OFFICIAL UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2012 TOP 100
POS / CHART PEAK / WKS ON CHART / ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL **WEEKS ON CHART IS WEEKS ON TOP 75 IN 2012** EMELI SANDE MADONNA 1 1 46 21 2 37 DAVID GUETTA 41 4 25 GOTYE 61 13 29 ALT-J 81 1 12 Our Version Of Events Virgin Nothing But The Beat Parlophone Making Mirrors Island An Awesome Wave Infectious Music MDNA Interscope TAYLOR SWIFT 2 1 52 ADELE 22 2 16 THE SCRIPT 42 1 10 62 5 8 MILITARY WIVES 82 1 36 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 21 Xl Recordings Number 3 Epic/Phonogenic Red Mercury Stronger Together Decca Lungs Island ADELE 3 1 52 ED SHEERAN 23 4 32 FUN 43 1 35 63 7 29 TRAIN 83 20 11 THE LUMINEERS + Asylum Some Nights Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen 19 Xl Recordings California 37 Columbia The Lumineers Decca 4 1 48 LANA DEL REY 24 1 3 BRUNO MARS 44 1 12 MILITARY WIVES 64 1 31 RIHANNA 84 3 8 JLS Born To Die Polydor Unorthodox Jukebox Atlantic In My Dreams Decca Loud Def Jam Evolution RCA MAVERICK SABRE 5 1 7 ONE DIRECTION 25 2 8 ANDRE RIEU 45 2 33 65 5 37 DRAKE 85 13 5 JEFF WAYNE Take Me Home Syco Music Magic Of The Movies Decca Lonely Are The Brave Mercury Take Care Cash Money/Island The War Of The Worlds... Sony Music 6 1 14 MUMFORD & SONS 26 1 43 BRUNO MARS 46 2 34 LABRINTH 66 1 17 AMY WINEHOUSE 86 1 14 JACK WHITE Babel Gentlemen Of The Road/Island Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra Electronic Earth Syco Music Lioness - Hidden Treasures Island Blunderbuss Xl Recordings 7 1 5 OLLY MURS 27 1 15 THE KILLERS 47 1 19 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 67 3 1 WHITNEY HOUSTON 87 1 22 MICHAEL BUBLE Right Place Right Time Epic Battle Born Vertigo Wrecking Ball Columbia The Ultimate Collection Arista Crazy Love Reprise 8 1 6 MICHAEL BUBLE 28 6 52 BEN HOWARD 48 1 41 KATY PERRY 68 5 36 KELLY CLARKSON 88 3 18 OF MONSTERS & MEN Christmas Reprise Every Kingdom Island Teenage Dream Virgin Stronger RCA My Head Is An... Universal Republic 9 1 52 COLDPLAY 29 2 27 MAROON 5 49 2 38 MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No 69 7 6 SUSAN BOYLE 89 2 29 CHASE & STATUS Mylo Xyloto Parlophone Overexposed A&M/Octone More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island Standing Ovation... Syco Music No More Idols Mercury FLORENCE & THE MACHINE LADY GAGA 10 1 6 RIHANNA 30 1 52 50 4 33 BEE GEES 70 4 25 THE VACCINES 90 1 17 Unapologetic Def Jam Ceremonials Island Number Ones Reprise What Did You Expect... Columbia Born This Way Interscope LMFAO 11 2 31 PALOMA FAITH 31 3 7 ROLLING STONES 51 8 41 71 15 5 ALICIA KEYS 91 1 20 SCRIPT Fall To Grace RCA GRRR Polydor Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope Girl On Fire RCA The Script Phonogenic 12 2 15 PINK 32 1 13 MUSE 52 1 22 KEANE 72 1 22 JUSTIN BIEBER 92 1 16 LINKIN PARK The Truth About Love RCA The 2nd Law Helium 3/Warner Bros Strangeland Island Believe Def Jam Living Things Warner Bros 13 1 8 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 33 1 41 NOEL GALLAGHER'S... 53 1 11 JAKE BUGG 73 2 5 AMY MACDONALD 93 17 5 IL DIVO Take The Crown Island ...High Flying Birds Sour Mash Jake Bugg Mercury Life In A Beautiful Light Vertigov The Greatest Hits Syco Music ROD STEWART 14 2 7 34 6 7 ALFIE BOE 54 1 8 GARY BARLOW/CW BAND 74 18 14 KELLY CLARKSON 94 16 28 NICKI MINAJ Merry Christmas Baby Verve Storyteller Decca Sing Decca Greatest Hits - Chapter One RCA Pink Friday Cash Money/Island PAUL SIMON 15 2 52 ONE DIRECTION 35 1 18 RITA ORA 55 3 38 JAY-Z & KANYE WEST 75 5 9 JONATHAN & CHARLOTTE 95 4 13 Up All Night Syco Music Ora Columbia/Roc Nation Watch The Throne Roc-A-Fella Together Syco Music Graceland Sony Music JESSIE J 16 2 45 36 3 35 REBECCA FERGUSON 56 1 21 PLAN B 76 22 12 EVA CASSIDY 96 1 23 WILL YOUNG Who You Are Island/Lava Heaven RCA Ill Manors - ost 679/Atlantic The Best Of Blix Street Echoes RCA CALVIN HARRIS 17 1 9 37 1 35 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday - 57 2 9 KYLIE MINOGUE 77 2 12 ELLIE GOULDING 97 4 13 MICHAEL KIWANUKA 18 Months Columbia Roman Reloaded Cash Money/Island The Abbey Road... Parlophone Halcyon Polydor Home Again Polydor 18 5 5 NEIL DIAMOND 38 6 48 BLACK KEYS 58 4 6 LED ZEPPELIN Celebration Day 78 9 5 GIRLS ALOUD 98 1 13 KASABIAN The Very Best Of Columbia El Camino Nonesuch Atlantic/Rhino/Swansong Ten Polydor Velociraptor Columbia 19 1 46 RIHANNA 39 3 6 LITTLE MIX 59 1 15 THE XX 79 1 10 BEYONCE 99 4 14 THE MACCABEES Talk That Talk Def Jam DNA Syco Music Coexist Young Turks 4 Columbia/Parkwood Ent Given To The Wild Fiction LADY ANTEBELLUM 20 1 52 OLLY MURS 40 5 36 RIZZLE KICKS 60 6 MICHAEL BUBLE 80 1 14 THE VACCINES 100 8 20 In Case You Didn't Know Epic Stereo Typical Island Sings Totally Blonde Metro Come Of Age Columbia Need You Now Capitol Analysis_v15_News and Playlists 08/01/13 17:10 Page 15
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SINGLES Only Parlophone’s David Guetta at 4 with Titanium featuring Sia broke the new act stranglehold. Sales rocket as Gotye and Jepsen hit 1m Compared to the artist albums market, where seven of the year’s biggest sellers were by British In the year iTunes launched in the UK in 2004 acts, the top end of the year-end singles table was selling 218,599 singles would have got you as high thin on the ground for homegrown talent. as No 16 on the annual chart. Last year it was only Just two of the Top 10 sellers were by UK acts good enough for 100th position. millions of tracks to choose from. ABOVE with James Arthur joined by Island/Lava’s Jessie J in That tally clocked up on the bottom rung of Against a market-wide 6.0% increase, combined Gotye and Carly eighth place with Domino. Four of the other tracks Rae Jepsen singles 2012’s year-end chart by the Interscope/Polydor sales of the Top 10 sellers were actually 1.0% lower hit a million sales in the Top 10 came from Americans, while the in 2012 - a feat than what the equivalent releases sold in 2011, even YouTube increasingly international flavour of the singles chart “As we get more portable devices into the market while sales of the Top 40 were 1.1% down and the sensation PSY is reflected by the presence of a Belgian/Australian Top 100 just 0.4% up. Against this trend the year’s couldn’t match (Gotye), Canadian (Carly Rae Jepsen), Frenchman and new business partners like Google we’ve got top seller, Island act Gotye featuring Gotye’s (David Guetta featuring Australian Sia) and South every chance of further growth” Somebody That I Used To Know, outsold 2011 top Korean (PSY) with Barbadian Rihanna 11th and BRIAN ROSE, UNIVERSAL title Someone Like You by Adele with 1,318,005 Swedes Swedish House Mafia 13th. copies shifted by the end of the year. Although the number of UK tracks in the year- track T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) by will.i.am. As in 2011, two singles surpassed 1 million sales end Top 10 dropped from four in 2011 to two last featuring Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez in the year with Gotye joined by year, the British presence across the annual Top 100 illustrates just how much the UK singles market has Interscope/Polydor’s Carly Rae Jepsen whose Call was on a par to 12 months earlier. Some 44.5% of grown in recent times and in this past year it hit yet Me Maybe shifted 1,142,995 copies. Both tracks the chart was by British acts – percentage point another new high. were debut UK hits for the artists in what was a down to the shared billing of Coldplay and Rihanna Following a 10.0% expansion in 2010, the sector banner year for new acts among the top sellers. on Princess Of China – compared to 44% in 2011 expanded by another 6.0% in 2012 to 188,564,734 Five of 2012’s top six sellers came from new and it healthily included a number of new names units, according to the Official Charts Company. artists with Fun featuring Janelle Monae’s such as Asylum/Black Butter’s Rudimental, Island’s However, at the top end of the market sales of the Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen-issued We Are Young in Alex Clare, Parlophone’s Conor Maynard and biggest hits were in decline, suggesting the long- third place, X Factor winner James Arthur’s Syco Columbia/Roc Nation’s Rita Ora. discussed long-tail effect may be having some release Impossible fifth and Island act PSY’s The share of the Top 100 by US artists impact in a sector where consumers have literally Gangnam Style at six. dropped from 42% to 36.5%.
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POS / CHART PEAK / WKS ON CHART / ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL **WEEKS ON CHART IS WEEKS ON TOP 75 IN 2012** GOTYE FT KIMBRA LLOYD/ANDRE 3000/LIL WAYNE 1 1 48 21 1 17 THE SCRIPT FT WILL I AM 41 2 17 SEAN PAUL 61 3 20 EMELI SANDE 81 3 14 Somebody That I Used To... Island Hall Of Fame Epic/Phonogenic She Doesn't Mind Atlantic/VP Read All About It Pt 3 Virgin Dedication To My Ex Interscope NICKI MINAJ 2 1 39 CARLY RAE JEPSEN 22 1 9 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 42 1 17 SAM & THE WOMP 62 8 21 82 5 20 ED SHEERAN Call Me Maybe Interscope Candy Island Bom Bom One More Tune/Stiff Pound The Alarm Cash Money/Island Lego House Asylum TRAIN 3 1 38 FUN FT JANELLE MONAE 23 6 27 43 1 13 TULISA 63 2 11 CALVIN HARRIS FT EXAMPLE 83 5 16 USHER We Are Young Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen Drive By Columbia Young Aatw/Island We'll Be Coming Back Columbia Scream RCA DJ FRESH FT RITA ORA 4 1 45 DAVID GUETTA FT SIA 24 1 19 44 12 32 AZEALIA BANKS FT LAZY JAY 64 2 12 ALYSSA REID/JUMP SMOKERS 84 13 24 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA Titanium Parlophone Hot Right Now Ministry Of Sound 212 Polydor Alone Again 3 Beat/AATW Greyhound Virgin COLDPLAY & RIHANNA 5 1 3 JAMES ARTHUR 25 4 23 45 1 33 COLDPLAY 65 1 7 ONE DIRECTION 85 1 33 ONE DIRECTION Impossible Syco Music Princess Of China Parlophone Paradise Parlophone Little Things Syco Music What Makes You... Syco Music 6 1 17 PSY 26 4 19 TAYLOR SWIFT 46 11 31 JASON MRAZ 66 2 14 CALVIN HARRIS FT NE-YO 86 12 14 LABRINTH Gangnam Style Island We Are Never Ever Getting.. Mercury I Won't Give Up Atlantic Let's Go Columbia Express Yourself Syco Music 7 2 40 NICKI MINAJ 27 3 19 STOOSHE Black Heart 47 1 22 FLO RIDA 67 9 29 DRAKE FT RIHANNA 87 9 17 LANA DEL REY Starships Cash Money/Island Future Cut/Qworks/Warner Bros Good Feeling Atlantic Take Care Cash Money/Island Video Games Polydor 8 1 30 JESSIE J 28 1 23 RITA ORA FT TINIE TEMPAH 48 1 11 CALVIN HARRIS 68 9 19 KATY PERRY 88 3 15 PINK Domino Island/Lava R.I.P. Columbia/Roc Nation Sweet Nothing Columbia Wide Awake Virgin Blow Me (One Last Kiss) RCA 9 1 23 MAROON 5 FT WIZ KHALIFA 29 1 6 OLLY MURS FT FLO RIDA 49 1 2 JUSTICE COLLECTIVE 69 5 17 OWL CITY/CARLY RAE JEPSEN 89 2 14 WANTED Payphone A&M/Octone Troublemaker Epic He Ain't Heavy... Metropolis Recordings Good Time Interscope/Republic Chasing The Sun Global Talent 10 4 27 FLO RIDA FT SIA 30 5 34 LMFAO 50 1 14 RITA ORA 70 5 18 JESSIE J FT DAVID GUETTA 90 2 15 JUSTIN BIEBER Wild Ones Atlantic Sexy And I Know It Interscope How We Do Columbia/Roc Nation Laserlight Island/Lava Boyfriend Def Jam 11 1 13 RIHANNA 31 10 41 JAY-Z & KANYE WEST 51 1 15 NE-YO 71 9 15 ED SHEERAN 91 8 13 DAVID GUETTA FT SIA Diamonds Def Jam N****S In Paris Roc-A-Fella Let Me Love You Motown Drunk Asylum She Wolf Parlophone 12 1 11 LABRINTH FT EMELI SANDE 32 6 19 RIHANNA 52 2 29 LABRINTH FT TINIE TEMPAH 72 8 13 MAROON 5 92 3 9 WILEY/SKEPTA/JME/MS D Beneath Your Beautiful Syco Music Where Have You Been Def Jam Earthquake Syco Music One More Night A&M/Octone Can You Hear Me One More Tune GABRIELLE APLIN 13 1 12 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA 33 2 7 BRUNO MARS 53 1 8 73 24 29 SKRILLEX FT SIRAH 93 2 13 CONOR MAYNARD Don't You Worry Child Virgin Locked Out Of Heaven Atlantic The Power Of Love Parlophone Bangarang Asylum Can't Say No Parlophone 14 2 29 EMELI SANDE 34 1 14 CHERYL 54 3 16 FLO RIDA 74 7 17 PALOMA FAITH 94 15 21 LADY ANTEBELLUM Next To Me Virgin Call My Name Polydor I Cry Atlantic Picking Up The Pieces RCA Need You Now Capitol 15 2 22 FLO RIDA 35 8 24 DAVID GUETTA FT NICKI MINAJ 55 1 14 KATY PERRY 75 1 11 COVER DRIVE 95 9 15 LANA DEL REY Whistle Atlantic Turn Me On Parlophone Part Of Me Virgin Twilight Global Talent Born To Die Polydor 16 1 27 RUDIMENTAL 36 8 28 KELLY CLARKSON 56 1 35 RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS 76 8 11 LUMINEERS 96 3 13 ONE DIRECTION Feel The Love Asylum/Black Butter Stronger RCA We Found Love Def Jam Ho Hey Decca Live While We're Young Syco Music 17 2 33 RIZZLE KICKS 37 2 15 CHRIS BROWN 57 1 20 OLLY MURS 77 7 20 FUN 97 17 18 EMELI SANDE Mama Do The Hump Island Don't Wake Me Up RCA Dance With Me Tonight Epic Some Nights Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen My Kind Of Love Virgin ALEX CLARE 18 4 27 38 1 15 WILEY FT MS D 58 2 32 MAROON 5 78 2 3 WILL I AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS 98 5 13 ELLIE GOULDING Too Close Island Heatwave One More Tune/Warner Bros Moves Like Jagger A&M/Octone Scream & Shout Interscope Anything Could Happen Polydor 19 1 25 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 39 1 14 WILL I AM FT EVA SIMONS 59 4 28 AVICII 79 1 11 CHRIS BROWN 99 8 9 CONOR MAYNARD FT NE-YO Spectrum Island This Is Love Interscope Levels Island Turn Up The Music RCA Turn Around Parlophone PITBULL FT CHRIS BROWN 20 2 13 ADELE 40 1 18 LITTLE MIX 60 1 11 GARY BARLOW/ CW BAND 80 10 15 100 3 13 WILL I AM/JAGGER/LOPEZ Skyfall Xl Recordings Wings Syco Music Sing Decca International Love J T.H.E (The Hardest Ever) Interscope Analysis_v15_News and Playlists 08/01/13 17:10 Page 16
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MARKET SHARES Events, Universal’s other big artist albums of the Adele out of the calculations indie album sales year included Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die, were largely flat, down just 1.1% with successes Mumford & Sons’ Babel and Rihanna’s including XL Beggars’ Jack White and The xx and EMI enters Universal after stellar 2012 Unapologetic as it supplied 46 of the year’s 100 top Infectious’s Alt-J. sellers. This was more than its two main rivals Sony After its banner year in 2011, XL Beggars had to A pre-breakup EMI went out on a real high as (31 albums) and Warner (12) managed combined. step outside for Ministry of Sound as top Emeli Sande placed it at the top of the end-of-year Three of Universal’s total came from the EMI independent corporate group with a 2.6% share. artist albums chart for the first time in a decade. takeover – by Sande, Katy Perry and Lady This was marginally up from the year before and Although by the close of 2012 Sande’s Virgin Antebellum respectively – while there were three helped by its compilations sales rising 15.5% on the album Our Version Of Events had come under the further EMI albums on labels to be divested. year. Also benefiting from the revived various artist control of the major’s new owner Universal, its Sony and Warner both suffered heavy year-on- sector were Universal (sales up 24.9%) and Sony success was one nurtured and shaped by EMI, year falls with Sony selling around 2 million fewer (sales up 15.7%), although Warner went in decline, which was responsible for delivering the one true non-budget albums than in 2011, an 11.1% drop, with unit sales dropping 31.2%. breakthrough albums success story of the year. This while a 25.2% decline for Warner added up to 3.6 Warner’s steep albums fall was contrasted by it was despite the obvious distractions of Universal’s million fewer albums sold than 12 months earlier. claiming the biggest singles growth among the $1.9bn (£1.2bn) takeover. Although being hit by a double-digit fall, Sony majors with sales up 14.0% on the year or around The Sande debut was the first EMI release since still managed to outperform the market and its 3.2 million units. With successes including Fun Robbie Williams’ Escapology in 2002 to finish as albums share grew year-on-year from 18.2% to featuring Janelle Monae’s We Are Young and a the year’s top artist title and helped to ensure it 18.4% thanks to successes including One Direction, series of Flo Rida hits, its singles share grew from achieved a respectable annual share of the albums Olly Murs and Paloma Faith. Warner’s annual share 13.9% to 14.7%, although the major remained market, even if sales of Our Version Of Events and dropped from 14.4% to 12.2%, although it placed significantly behind Universal and Sony. other titles moved over from EMI to Universal for two albums in the year-end Top 10 by Ed Sheeran Led by the overall top seller in Gotye featuring the final three months of the year. and Michael Buble respectively. Kimbra’s Somebody That I Used To Know, This followed the transfer of EMI’s business to The record-shattering sales achieved by Adele’s Universal handled 48 of the year’s 100 top singles as the rival major, although assets now under the 21 in 2011 were always going to result in 2012 its market share rose annually from 34.3% to 35.6%. Parlophone Label Group that Universal must divest having its work cut out to compete and this in The major sold 6.4 million more tracks than the continued to clock up market share in Q4 for what particular makes year-on-year comparisons for the year before, an 11.4% increase, while Sony was the previously-separate EMI. independent sector look painful. underperformed the market with it sales up 3.4% Given the movement of some labels and artists Non-budget sales for the sector dropped compared to overall sales rising 6.0%. As a result its in the year’s closing quarter from EMI to Universal, 17.7% or around 4.2 million units, but if you take market share dropped year-on-year from 21.2% to the annual market shares for 2012 have been somewhat distorted. It means Universal’s share is ARTIST ALBUMS ANNUAL MARKET SHARE (%) higher than otherwise would have been the case, SINGLES ANNUAL MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE 2007 SINCE 2007 while EMI is lower, although it only finished 35 40 marginally behind Warner in terms of full- and 30 35 mid-price album sales. 25 30 25 Universal’s own share of the non-budget albums 20 20 market for 2012 was 35.4%, up from 31.0% in 2011 15 15 and its highest since it claimed a 36.9% share in 10 10 2008. Part of its score increase was clearly down to 5 5 the EMI acquisition (although without the sales of 0 0 to-be-divested acts such as Coldplay and David 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Guetta) so a look a look at how it did in the first UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDIES UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDIES nine months of the year prior to inheriting any EMI labels offers a fairer like-for-like comparison. Up to the end of September it was responsible for TOTAL ALBUMS ANNUAL MARKET SHARE (%) COMPILATIONS ANNUAL MARKET SHARE (%) 33.1% of the full- and mid-price albums market, up SINCE 2007 SINCE 2007 from 30.4% the year before but notably less than 40 40 the 35.4% it managed by year’s end. 35 35 With the EMI assets boost, Universal saw its 30 30 sales of non-budget albums dropping by only 25 25 around 160,000 units on the year or 0.5%, 20 20 15 compared to the whole market falling by 11.2%. By 15 10 comparison EMI dropped 17.5%, although up to 10 5 5 the end of September before the transfer of some 0 0 assets it was uniquely among the majors showing 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Source for graphs growth with album sales up 7.6% or around and data: UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDIES 570,000 units. MINISTRY INDIES (includes Ministry) Outside the newly-acquired Our Version Of
SINGLES BY GROUP SHARE ALBUMS BY COMPANY SHARE ALBUMS BY GROUP SHARE ALBUMS BY DISTRIBUTOR SHARE Universal 35.6% RCA 9.2% Universal 35.4% Arvato 46.0% Sony 20.4% Island 7.4% Sony 18.4% EMI 16.5% Warner 14.7% Columbia 6.8% Warner 12.2% Universal 8.7% EMI 11.0% Polydor 6.6% EMI 12.1% Sony 4.8% XL Beggars 1.6% UMTV 6.0% Ministry of Sound 2.6% Warner 3.7% Ministry of Sound 1.4% Mercury 5.8% XL Beggars 2.4% PIAS Song DADC 3.4% Demon 0.3% Virgin 5.0% Demon 1.4% Sony DADC UK 2.8% Domino 0.3% Decca 4.3% Union Square 0.7% Proper 1.3% Metropolis 0.2% Atlantic 4.3% Domino 0.4% ADA Avarto 1.0% Union Square 0.1% Warner Bros 4.0% Cooking Vinyl 0.3% Fuga 0.9% 5 101520 0 5 1015202530354002468100 5 101520253035400 Analysis_v15_News and Playlists 08/01/13 17:10 Page 17
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20.4%, while EMI claimed 11.0% in fourth spot. 2012 TOP 10 COMPILATIONS After Adele scored 2011’s top single with the POS TITLE / LABEL COMPILATIONS: NOW! 83 mega-selling Someone Like You, independent label 1 Now That’s What I Call Music 83 EMI TV/UMTV singles releases were largely missing from 2012’s HELPS SECTOR TO THRIVE 2 biggest sellers, with just three in the year-end Top Now That’s What I Call Music 82 EMI TV/UMTV Now! 83 not only needed just six weeks to 100 for 2012. 3 Now That’s What I Call Music 81 EMI TV/UMTV become 2012’s overall top various artists seller, However, despite that fact, independent singles 4 Now That’s What I Call Christmas EMI TV/Rhino/UMTV but it also led a spectacular compilations revival. sales still grew by 9.6% in total over the course of 5 Pop Party 10 Rhino/UMTV Twelve months ago Music Week was the year, led by XL/Beggars, which enjoyed yet 6 Now That’s What I Call Running EMI TV/UMTV reporting the various artists sector still in the more Adele success with the Bond movie theme 7 BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2012 Sony/UMTV/Rhino doldrums with another painful annual unit sales song Skyfall. fall of 14.3%, leaving the market at less than 8 Anthems 90s Ministry Of Sound Elsewhere, Ministry of Sound put out the year’s half the size it was 2004. However, against all 9 Keep Calm And Relax Rhino/Sony top indie seller with DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora’s BELOW the odds and in sharp contrast to what was Adele’s Bond theme 10 Until Now – Swedish House Mafia Virgin Hot Right Now whilst the Metropolis Group was Skyfall was the happening on artist albums it started to grow behind Justice Collective Christmas chart-topper biggest-selling indie Source for data: Official Charts Company again last year. single of 2012 He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother. After a modest 0.4% rise in the first three months of the year, the rate of growth started to quicken and was up to 1.9% by the mid-way point. By year’s end the market was up 7.2% on the year to 20,562,432 units, meaning around 1.4 million various artist sets had been sold compared to in 2011, according to the Official Charts Company. What came as no surprise was the Now That’s What I Call Music brand dominated the top compilation sellers, something it has done since its arrival in 1983 and continuing to achieve spectacular numbers even as other sales in the sector ebbed away. But even by Now!’s high standards it had a spectacular year with the brand supplying five of the sector’s top six sellers, led by Now! 83. Shifting 1,330,276 copies by year end, despite having only been released in mid- November, the EMI/UMTV title not only became the year’s biggest compilation, it also outsold the series’ 2011 equivalent Now! 80. Its six-week tally was 17.4% higher than Now! 80 managed over the same timeframe in 2011, while between them Now!’s top six titles sold nearly 3.7 million copies across the year. Now! 83’s ability to outperform the corresponding Now! title from the year before was reflective of a market in which the main sales growth was at the top end. While overall compilation sales were up by 7.2% on the year, sales of 2012’s 10 biggest compilations were 26.8% higher. These included Rhino/UMTV’s Pop Party 10, COOL BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES: UK TALENT DOMINATES DOMESTIC SALES which was the fifth top seller having shifted Homegrown talent claimed its greatest successive year. The run includes New one to make the year-end Top 10, while 48.4% more copies than Now That’s What I Call share of the year’s Top 10 artist album York’s Scissor Sisters who, like Del acts from the rest of Europe claimed a Xmas achieved to sit in the same position in sellers since 2006 in 2012 as Emeli Rey, are UK signed and whose 5.75% share and those from the rest of 2011. Meanwhile, Virgin’s Swedish House Mafia Sande led an all-UK top three. self-titled Polydor debut was 2004’s the world rose from 10% to 12% and compilation Until Now sold 53.0% more copies Sande’s Virgin debut Our Version Of biggest album. included Reprise/Warner Bros’s as the year’s 10th top album than UMTV/EMI’s Events, XL act Adele’s 21 in second Last year also delivered a top three Canadian Michael Buble and Def Dreamboats And Petticoats Five managed in the place and Asylum/Atlantic’s Ed year-end chart made up exclusively of Jam/Mercury-signed Barbadian same ranking 12 months earlier. Sheeran placed third with + were UK artists for the first time since 2007 Rihanna in the Top 10. The year’s 55 top compilations all sold more among seven releases by Brits in the when Island act Amy Winehouse, Pop continued to dominate the top copies than the corresponding titles did in 2011, year-end Top 10, matching the showing Syco’s Leona Lewis and sellers, making up 40% of the year-end although below them year-on-year comparisons achieved six years before. Island/Casablanca’s Mika provided the Top 100 for a second successive year, then start to head south. This again shows the The UK presence further took in year’s top three sellers, while Polydor’s while the likes of Coldplay, growth of the compilations business last year Syco’s One Direction, Gentlemen Of Take That were fourth. Vertigo/Mercury’s The Killers and was largely down to a select number of titles The Road/Island’s Mumford & Sons Despite the strong presence in the Helium 3/Warner Bros’s Muse helped rather than happening across the market. and Parlophone’s Coldplay, while year-end Top 10, the UK’s share of to grow rock’s share from 21% to 28%. Another big factor in the growth has been the Polydor’s US singer-songwriter Lana Del 2012’s Top 100 artist albums chart Contemporary urban’s share dropped strong pick-up of digital sales. Although Rey, who is UK signed, finished in was down on the previous year from from 18% to 15% with MOR/easy download’s share of compilations still lags fourth place with Born To Die. 57% to 54%. listening closing the gap with a 12% behind that of artist albums, it rose from 16.3% Our Version Of Events’ place at No 1 US acts increased their share from stake of the Top 100 including in 2011 to 23.5% last year. This compares to the meant a UK or UK-signed act supplied 24.25% to 28.25% in the year, Christmas efforts by Michael Buble and share of artist albums sold digitally increasing the year’s top artist seller for the 13th although Lana Del Rey was the only Verve/Decca’s Rod Stewart. from 22.5% to 29.9%. Project2_Layout 1 04/12/2012 13:20 Page 1
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www.musicweek.com 11.01.13 Music Week 19 PROFILE CHARLIE SIMPSON CHARLIE SAYS...
Singer and guitarist Charlie Simpson was once one third of hugely successful British teen pop trio Busted. Now the frontman of a post-hardcore rock band and working on his second acoustic solo album, he’s managed to win over the respect of a notoriously cynical scene TALENT I BY RHIAN JONES
harlie Simpson must be one of the only artists in history to have graced a cover C of Smash Hits! magazine and gained the respect of Kerrang!. His convincing transition from the bushy- eyebrowed one out of pop punk trio Busted to respected frontman of post-hardcore band Fightstar - and in more recent years acoustic singer/songwriter of his own solo project - has been mightily impressive. Now working on his second solo album – the follow up to 2011’s Young Pilgrim - Music Week caught up with Simpson, who is represented by management house Raw Power, to ask how he’s settling into his career as an established credible rock star…
You’ve made a big transition musically, do you ever regret the way you got into the industry? It wasn’t something that was reflective of me but it was still something that I would never turn around and say I regret. It was an amazing experience but I think it’s quite clear from what I’ve done since that I have no intention of ever going back to it.
Did you find it difficult to get credibility from the typical Fightstar fan base because of Busted? ABOVE Yeah at the beginning of Fightstar it definitely was, formed personal relationships with the people I Guitar hero: then they might put some money toward my music but then it was a double-edged sword because I want to be working with. I don’t need distribution Simpson’s second video: it all just means you’ve got fewer costs to acoustic solo think if someone listened to Fightstar and were because I go through PIAS and if you have album is planned recoup. It’s not just about wearing a Jäger T-shirt really blown away by the album, then they were investment that’s all you need. I think it’s different for a September and then them giving me some money - which I release via music probably blown away more because they didn’t for a new artist or a band that’s just starting because partnership think a lot of other brands do - they are very expect to be. On the other side we did have a hard they don’t have experience in the music industry, platform Nusic much about having a relationship with the artist, it’s time getting over that stage. But there were people they don’t have any contacts, but I’ve been doing got to be a two way street. I’ve been working with like Paul Brannigan at the beginning who put me this for a long time now I know what it is I want Jäger now since 2006 and I feel like when I talk on the front cover of Kerrang! magazine - which is and my management [Raw Power] are brilliant, so about them or if I promote them I don’t feel bad something people would have thought was weird - for me it works out better that way. about it at all. They are a great company, they help champions like that really shone through for us. me out a lot. You’ve just made a Guinness World Record for You’re currently writing your second solo album, playing the coldest gig in Siberia in partnership What would you change about the music industry what does it mean for the future of Fightstar? with Jägermeister – how does that branding and why? After I released Young Pilgrim everything’s gone relationship work? Twenty years ago everyone had it too easy, they took really well and this is something I didn’t want to I really can’t say enough good things about it for granted that people would buy CDs forever stop doing so quickly afterwards, so I’m three Jägermeister. Their music division in the UK is run and I think that the start of the Napster generation quarters of the way through the second solo record by a guy called Tom Carson and he’s just so in tune was a backlash about that. The music industry had now and there’s quite a lot of international stuff I with what artists want. People get funny about become too greedy and [now] is almost paying a bit want to do with my solo work before I return to artists doing the brand thing and that attitude is of a price for that. Had it not been like that in the Fightstar, but I think after the next album campaign something I can totally understand because Eighties/Nineties the backlash wouldn’t have been is finished then we’ll get back into the studio and sometimes it looks ridiculous - it could be done for so severe. Also, I heard that Canada’s government start writing again. the wrong reasons, but all Jägermeister care about is give a huge amount of money to young bands for giving the artist what they want. tour support and I think that’s brilliant, it’s difficult You set up your own record label with Nusic. Why They have never given me money and said ‘just to tour around everyplace in the UK – bands can’t is it important to retain the rights to your music? go and do what you want with this’. If I’m doing afford it and thats definitely something our I’ve worked with a few different labels now and I’ve merchandise, then we'll do co-branding on it and government should look at. 20-21 2013_v7_News and Playlists 08/01/13 12:57 Page 18
20 Music Week 11.01.13 www.musicweek.com FEATURE20 REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL13 REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
With the bright lights and ringing tills of Christmas all but a distant memory, we waft away the January clouds with a fan of reasons for the music industry to look forward to the year ahead
ABOVE Big returns | Glasto returns to the festival scene this year with Take That (in some form) tipped for a studio visit
OPPOSITE In store | Indie retailers will look to boost sales on Record Store Day again in 2013 20-21 2013_v7_News and Playlists 08/01/13 12:57 Page 19
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ook out, the most depressing day of the year is raised eyebrows if 2013 closed without the crime James Arthur fast approaching. While the last Monday of simulator taking to shelves, snatching headlines and this month is dubbed ‘blue’ for the average Joe raking in the green. Stevie Wonder blared from one RIGHT L King Arthur | X thanks to the consequences of festive frivolity and of the GTA V trailers last year - just a teaser of Factor’s James cold weather without the Christmas warmth, the what’s sure to be an extensive soundtrack in the Arthur had a very merry Christmas in music industry has dipping BPI figures to stomach game itself. There’ll be similarly strong sync 2012, here’s to a as well. opportunities come the release of EA’s annual Happy New Year Even our friends across the pond owe a few footie-sim FIFA. Eyes and ears peeled. sad faces to slipping album sales. Thank the heavens for the single download market. Midem But chin up, chum – New Year, new you, new music. There’s plenty to look forward to in 2013. In fact we’ve come up with 13 reasons to smile as we head into the next 11 and a bit months in earnest. We’re feeling better already. Fingers crossed that we don’t get a soggy repeat of last year in terms of the weather but, even if the Record Store Day music industry’s trip to Cannes is a weekend-long Physical retail may still be on shaky ground but our umbrella job, there’ll still plenty of business done at High Street survivors don’t have to hold out too Midem 2013. long before the return of the snaking queues synonymous with Record Store Day on April 20 – The Brit and a welcome cash injection. Awards With a new Damien Glasto Returns Hirst-designed We’re not saying that the festival scene lacked that trophy, a committee main event flourish last year, but there’s nothing dedicated to ensuring the strongest digital campaign quite like Glastonbury when it comes to enjoying possible and a brand new prize for Brit achievements live music in a really big field. It returns on June 26. overseas in the Global Success Award, there’ll be plenty to breathe new life into the famous awards A return to the norm show on February 20. Two things remain constant: The Olympics provided a great stage for music in the promise of a great night and James Corden. 2012, but with a lot of promoters erring on the side Winning the X Factor is by no means a sure-fire of caution in the face of unprecedented live The Olympic Stadium way of claiming a long-term career but with the competition last year, many will be glad to see the We defy any artist to top the spectacle of the London rapid success of James Arthur’s single Impossible state of play return to a more familiar form in 2013. 2012 Opening and Closing ceremonies on the before Christmas, there’s no reason to doubt his Olympic stage, but it’s looking like there’ll be debut album won’t be a big hitter this year. Whether GTA V opportunity to have a punt this year. With summer we have another Leona remains to be seen - but he We tipped it last year as one concerts seemingly all but confirmed for the shiny shows plenty of promise. of the biggest unsung sync new Olympic Stadium (and Live Nation reportedly opportunities. Since involved) London could soon have another massive Prime-time TV then video game music venue to boast about. The hearts, minds, ears and eyes of young music behemoth Grand fans may have migrated to the internet, but there’s Theft Auto has had Cross-genre kings and queens still a strong belief that a prime-time TV slot can two trailers for its Assuming everything goes to plan, 2013 will bear turn upcoming acts into household names – if fifth edition and the fruits of a whole host of musical royalty handled in the right way. Hopefully the three Friday there’d be more than a few hitting the recording studio: none more exciting night pilot music shows coming to Channel 4 in than Mr. Bowie himself, who will release his first early 2013 will give birth to the next big TV studio album in a decade this March. Meanwhile, opportunity for labels and managers. both Take That and Eminem are expected to release their first LPs in three years following 4G roll-out 2010’s Progress and Recovery respectively, while a Deezer seemed pretty chuffed with its Everything new albums are also tipped from Lady Gaga, U2, Everywhere partnership last year as the telco took Beyonce and, well, can you remember a year advantage of being the first to offer 4G in the UK, without a Rihanna record? and the BPI is tipping mobile networks as the music industry’s next big partners. The further roll- out of high-speed mobile networks in 2013 will be the first real chance to see if 4G is really a new dawn for content industries and if the music industry can command control early on. Tom Odell The Music Week Awards What can you say about Tom Odell? He’s determined, We’re not sure how to follow Adele but we’ll do our talented and really hot – according to Lily Cooper, best. The Music Week Awards will return to anyway. The BRITs bods must agree with at least two of London’s Brewery on April 11 where we will once those traits, having handed Odell the BRITs Critics’ again recognise the great achievements of every Choice Award last year. Signed to Columbia via Cooper’s sector of the music industry over the past year. In The Name Of label, Odell will pick up the gong in Don’t miss it: Musicweekawards.com person at the BRITs ceremony on February 20 with his debut album slated for June. RETAIL DPS_v9_News and Playlists 08/01/13 11:23 Page 32
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Pomp And Circumstance 22 Commercial Street Give us a bit of background on We’re trying to make it known the store… that we’ll do anything people want Harrogate, HG1 1TY The store was founded in 1994 aside from just classical stuff. t 01423 504035 and I took over nearly three w pomp-and-circumstance.co.uk Manager: Peter Robinson years ago. It’s a specialist How is business today compared classical and jazz shop but we to previous years? do lots of other things as well. It’s very tough, incredibly tough. difficult to get the message for us. We order anything and send it I’ve only been doing it for al three “People seem to think across that the money goes It can be a little bit of a risk, anywhere. If anyone wants any years but the recession has been that there’s some towards running the shop that working out what to get, because kind of music on CD, DVD or absolutely desperate this year they come to browse in and you have to buy the stuff in in mysterious public vinyl, we get it for them. making things terribly hard. seem to enjoy. advance, but it was a good day We used to have big signs We’re in a street five minutes funding that goes to We do have a body of very last year and we hope to have an outside saying ‘Your classical from the town centre where record shops, so even if loyal customers though. even better one in 2013. and jazz specialist record shop’ there are a lot of independent you don’t go into them and we found that people shops and there are a few they’ll still be there” How do you fight against the Is there anything else that the avoided the shop. So we’ve empty ones now. tough times? music industry could or should be PETER ROBINSON, POMP AND gotten rid of those signs and we We’re doing our best to keep It’s mainly about advertising but doing more to help? now say that we’ll order going, we advertise and we had CIRCUMSTANCE the other thing we do is sell Record Store Day is a really good anything. Once people are in, an article in the local paper that things at concerts and recitals. thing and it put us on the map for we can talk to them, find out said ‘Use us or lose us’ but they’ll buy stuff from Amazon You go along to an event with loads of people last year. Because what they want and hopefully people seem to think that there’s but won’t download. I have some CDs and you have an we were linked to it via ERA, get it for them. some mysterious public funding people come in with a review of arrangement where the venue people found our website, found I’m a huge music fan myself that goes to record shops and a disc and a price, which is takes a cut of the profits and that we would order things and and like all kinds of music. I sole traders, so even if you don’t clearly the Amazon price that I you can make maybe half a that got loads of people to come was fortunate growing up in a go into them they’ll somehow still can’t compete with. It’s week’s takings in an evening. into the shop who wouldn’t have family who loved music and be there next time. upsetting when people come in done so otherwise. played all kinds around me. The main competitor is and I tell them what I would Do you participate in Record I’m also trying to build a We’ve got this wealth of Amazon – not downloads have to charge for it and they Store Day at all? relationship with our local guitar knowledge in the shop and all because our main clientele are say, “But I can get it from Yes but we’ve only done the one shop and get them to promote people have to do is use us. still classical customers, so Amazon for this much.” It’s last year so it’s a new departure our shop as I do theirs.
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FOPP iTUNES EMUSIC Top 10 retail chart Top 10 retail chart Top 10 streamed chart REISSUE REPACKAGE POS ARTIST ALBUM POS ARTIST ALBUM POS ARTIST ALBUM FLEETWOOD MAC Now That's What I NICK CAVE AND Rumours Rhino/Warner / January 28 1 ALT-J An Awesome Wave 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS 1 We No Who U R Call Music! 83 THE BAD SEEDS Fleetwood Mac celebrate the 35th anniversary of their Our Version Of Our Version Of Events 2 EMELI SANDE 2 EMELI SANDE 2 GRIZZLY BEAR Shields landmark album Rumours by releasing new, expanded and Events: Special Ed. (Special Edition) deluxe editions of the Grammy-winning LP, which has sold GODSPEED YOU! Allelujah! Don’t 3 JAKE BUGG Jake Bugg 3 JAKE BUGG Jake Bugg 3 BLACK EMPEROR Bend! Ascend! more than 40 million copies worldwide since its 1977 release. BBC Radio 1's The expanded edition’s three CDs include the original 4 ROLLING STONES GRRR!: 3CD 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS 4 GOAT World Music Live Lounge album and the B-side Silver Springs, a MUMFORD 5 5 ED SHEERAN 5 SUFJAN STEVENS & SONS Babel + Silver & Gold dozen unreleased live recordings from the 6 TAME IMPALA Lonerism 6 THE LUMINEERS The Lumineers 6 ANDY STOTT Luxury Problems group’s ’77 world tour, SHARON 7 DJANGO DJANGO 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS 7 Django Django Anthems 90s VAN ETTEN Tramp and a disc filled with unreleased takes from OF MONSTERS My Head Is The Playlist - New 8 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS 8 PARQUET COURTS Light Up Gold & MEN An Animal Year's Eve Party the album’s recording.
9 FRANK OCEAN Channel Orange 9 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto 9 TAME IMPALA Lonerism The deluxe edition includes all I Predict A Graceful 10 BRUNO MARS Unorthodox Jukebox 10 ONE DIRECTION Take Me Home 10 COLD SPECKS Expulsion music from the expanded version, PRICE CHECK plus an additional disc ARTIST / ALBUM of outtakes, a DVD that features a documentary about the BRUNO MARS album, and the album on vinyl. £10.99 £10.00 £7.99 £9.49 £10.00 In celebration of the release, the current line-up of the Unorthodox Jukebox band, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie - both original GREEN DAY members since 1967 - along with Lindsey Buckingham and £8.99 £10.00 £7.99 £8.99 £10.00 Stevie Nicks, who joined the band in 1975, will embark upon Tre! their first US tour since 2009 in April. PRE-RELEASE LES MISERABLES BEGINS TO CLIMB AS BIFFY CLYRO DOMINATES AMAZON HMV PLAY.COM BIFFY CLYRO’S MUCH- demand amongst consumers - PRE-RELEASE PRE-RELEASE PRE-RELEASE ANTICIPATED sixth studio it’s at No.1 on Amazon and POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL album Opposites is making a HMV’s weekly pre-order lists huge impact on the UK’s pre- and at No.2 on Play.com’s. order charts a full two weeks Elsewhere, Polydor’s official before it’s due to hit retailers. soundtrack to recently- A double album, Opposites - released movie Les released on the 14th Floor Miserables - starring Russell label - was originally Crowe and Anne Hathaway - is announced also making as a pair progress ahead of LPs: The of its general Land at release on 1 BIFFY CLYRO 1 COURTEENERS The End Of Monday 1 BIFFY CLYRO Opposites Opposites Deluxe Edition Anna 2 GABRIELLE APLIN 2 BIFFY CLYRO Our Toes (January 14). 2 VARIOUS Les Miserables... English Rain: 2cd.. Opposites 3 NICK CAVE & THE... 3 STOOSHE 3 STOOSHE and The It’s at No.2 on Push The Sky Away Stooshe Stooshe 4 RICHARD THOMPSON 4 FOALS 4 THE JOY FORMIDABLE Sand at Amazon and Electric Holy Fire Wolf's Law 5 NEW ORDER 5 MODESTEP 5 FRIGHTENED RABBIT the Core No.7 at HMV. Lost Sirens Evolution Theory Pedestrian Verse 6 ADAM ANT 6 COURTEENERS 6 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING Of Our Also doing Adam Ant is The BlueBlack.... Anna: Hmv.Com Exclusive... Arc 7 FLEETWOOD MAC 7 OST: VA 7 FLEETWOOD MAC Bones. very nicely this Rumours Les Miserables: Highlights Fro Rumours 8 STOOSHE 8 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING 8 FOALS Band Of week is The Stooshe Arc: Deluxe Ed Holy Fire 9 LED ZEPPELIN 9 NEW ORDER 9 FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Horses’ Courteeners’ Celebration Day Lost Sirens Conduit 10 IRON MAIDEN 10 ADAM ANT 10 I AM KLOOT Ben Bridwell is set to feature Anna, which is at No.1 on Powerslave Adam Ant Is The Blueblack... Let It All In 11 IRON MAIDEN 11 EELS 11 DEVLIN on two tracks. The first song Play.com’s pre-order list and Live After Death Wonderful, Glorious: Deluxe Ed A Moving Picture 12 FOALS 12 FLEETWOOD MAC 12 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS from the record to be publicly No.6 on HMV’s, but hasn’t yet Holy Fire Rumours: 3cd Push The... 13 IRON MAIDEN 13 ASAP ROCKY 13 AKON played was Stingin’ Belle, registered on Amazon. The Seventh Son of.... Longliveasap Stadium 14 IRON MAIDEN 14 NICK CAVE: BAD SEEDS 14 CHICKENFOOT followed by single Black Manchester band’s third Somewhere in Time Push The Sky... Lv 15 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING 15 HURTS Exile: Deluxe Edition: Include 15 EELS Glorious Wonderful Chandelier. It’s been three album is being released via Arc 16 EMILIA MITIKU 16 MALLORY KNOX Signals 16 THE BLACKOUT Start The Party years since the last Biffy Co-Operative Music in I Belong To You 17 VARIOUS ARTISTS 17 I AM KLOOT Let It All In 17 RICHARD THOMPSON Electric album, Only Revolutions in February. The band’s past two Bass Culture.... 18 I AM KLOOT 18 IMAGINE DRAGONS Night Visions 18 VERONICA FALLS Waiting For Something... November 2009, but that LPs, St. Jude and Falcon, have Let It All In 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS 19 VILLAGERS Awayland: Hmv.Exclusive: I 19 COHEED AND CAMBRIA The Afterman... clearly hasn’t hurt the band’s both gone Top 5. Bass Culture... 20 EELS Wonderful, Glorious 20 JUSTIN HAYWARD Spirits Of The Western... 20 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINETemper... PEOPLE_V4_News and Playlists 04/01/13 12:29 Page 32
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