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} CISAC reports global Sober Mary J Blige. Produced royalty collections for by Maths Time Joy, the , music Mahalia track has received some and Asylum/Atlantic Records serious love online from publishers grew by Sober: out now / : Spring 2018 The Fader, Dummy and 6.8% to €8bn in 2016. Complex, including a recent (RotD) Sober from 19-year-old session video for the Berlin- singer- Mahalia is based Colors studio that has } Steve Stoute launches an exquisite R&B gem that clocked up over 1.9 million in three months last night (15 Mixmag, her music is quickly UnitedMasters, with showcases why she is a views on YouTube. Her music November) at the Hoxton becoming synonymous with backing from Alphabet. and one to watch has so far amassed over eight Square Bar and Kitchen, the trials of everyday life for (Medium) for in 2018. With its chilled million combined streams Mahalia will be supporting today’s youth. And if, like boom-bap beat offering and garnered support from on her UK tour us, you adore clever and } Viagogo and Stubhub a gorgeous soundbed for 1Xtra, Radio 1, , in February next year before expressive songwriting with have their offices Mahalia’s smooth vocals, the NME and a position within headlining Omeara in a luscious vibe and sublime raided. (Guardian) track effortlessly glides along i-D’s prestigious Class of on 14 March. Recently hailed vocals, then Mahalia is one in a hazy vibe reminiscent 2018 list. Having played her as the “ of the artist that you need to add to } Musical.ly sold to of early Erykah Badu and second sold-out London date Snapchat generation” by your radar. Chinese social media company. (TechCrunch) CONTENTS

}  to sell beauty products - but not as P2 Streaming data insight a revenue stream. into the consumption of (TechCrunch) Christmas songs P4 Alexis Castiel, co-founder of on-demand, community-led vinyl production site Diggers P4 Alexis Castiel - Diggers Factory P5 Be Good – Compass P8 Ava Rene – Records of the Week Factory interviewed 1 feature

Rob Crutchley, Insight & Analysis, BPI Research Department, examines how streaming data is providing some interesting insights into the consumption of Christmas songs

The era of music streaming has undoubtedly outside of the festive season, it is possible to cumulatively streamed almost 1.7m times in that there are quite a few listeners reluctant to given us a great deal of new insight into look at the plays accrued by these Yuletide the first week of 2017. The play count doesn’t relinquish the joy of listening to festive music. how people listen to music. In the age of favourites in the run-up to the end of the year settle down to under 200,000 until the eighth Even though some of these plays will have purchasing all that was officially recorded and effectively estimate at what point we start week of the year where it remains until that come from artist playlists, clearly some people was what was bought – there was no looking forward to Christmas. first week in September. This seven-week do Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day. information available on how many times, or Streaming is not quite as December- ‘hangover’ from Christmas 2016 suggests for how long afterwards, the music fan would centric as purchasing – only 11.4% of the listen to that particular album or track. The 2016 play total took place in the last month PLAYS OF POPULAR CHRISTMAS SONGS, WEEKS 1-42 2017 increasingly rich data that is coming to us now of the year. The final week of the year is, around streaming is helping to fill in these unsurprisingly, the peak period for Christmas previously uncovered areas - the charts are listening. In the streaming chart for week now as much about measuring the ongoing 52 2016, four of the top five (including the consumption of music as the initial point of number one) most-listened to tracks were purchase. Xmas-themed*. There were 28 tracks It’s already well-established that Christmas released prior to 2016 that were played over is a key time for the recorded , 1m times in that seven-day period and we with getting on for a quarter (23.7%) of all used those as the base of our analysis. the CDs sold in 2016 being purchased in the What that analysis showed was that, last month of the year. It’s also worth noting if cumulative plays of those tracks were that Christmas-themed and tracks analysed on a week-by-week basis throughout are among the most-purchased historically: 2016, the point at which the streaming total Now That’s What I Call Christmas has gone started incrementally increasing was chart through various iterations over time but data week 36**. In every subsequent week up to from the shows that the end of the year the play count rose, so it has sold over 1.8m copies since the end from this it could be deduced that the music- of 2012. It’s perhaps less well-known that listening public is already starting to gear up SHARE OF TRACK’S TOTAL PLAYS Michael Buble’s Christmas is the 4th biggest for Christmas at the beginning of September. Mid Feb to August 2016 selling artist album of this decade, behind only This trend is borne out by streaming data ’s 21 and 25 and ’s x. we’ve seen for this year too – for those same 1 East 17 Stay Another Day 10.0% 2 The Pogues ft Kirsty Maccoll Fairytale of New York 5.1% Streaming data means that we can now 28 tracks, plays started increasing, again, in 3  Christmas Lights 3.9% also assess the popularity of the very first week of September. 4 Pretenders 2000 Miles 3.2% 5 Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You 3.1% beyond the last few weeks of the year, when We also looked at how listening to these 6 Wizzard I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 3.0% it’s most commonly bought. While there are songs was spread throughout the earlier 7  Santa Baby 2.8% 8 Wham! Last Christmas 2.8% no huge revelations to be unearthed about the part of the year. It’s interesting to note, 9  Stop The Cavalry 2.5% volume of plays of Christmas-themed tracks for example, that these 28 tracks were 10 Michael Buble  It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 2.5% }} 2 feature (cont) gigs

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Friday £ Connie Constance, Camden Assembly NW1

Monday So, what of the period in between? We *Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is £ Soule, The Waiting Room N16 analysed plays in 2016 for each track from You (number one); Wham’s Last Christmas £ Callum Beattie, Camden Assembly NW1 week 8 to week 35 (i.e. late February to the (number two); The Pogues ft Kirsty Maccoll’s £ John Joseph Brill + Bryde, The Lexington N1 end of August) to see what percentages Fairytale Of New York (4); Shakin’ Stevens’ £ Her, Omeara SE1 of their year-long listening tally this stretch Merry Christmas Everyone (5). ’s £ Stella Donnelly, St Moritz W1 accounted for. Across all 28 tracks it Rockabye was at number three. amounted to 2.4% - perhaps not a great Tuesday amount on the face of it, but it’s still surprising ** Chart week ending Thursday 8 September £ Benny Mails, Birthdays N16 to learn that Mariah Carey’s All I Want For 2016 £ The Orielles + Sports Team + Horsey + Hotel Lux, Christmas Is You – as unquestionably great Old Blue Last EC2 as it is – was listened to over 16,000 times in £ Hunter the Bear + Coin + The Ninth Wave, the first week of July. Hoxton Bar & Kitchen N1 Of all the 28 tracks, however, the greatest £ Blue Hawaii, Pickle Factory E2 percentage of a song’s 2016 listening £ Matt Woods, Bush Hall W12 accounted for by this period took place on East 17’s Stay Another Day (10.0%). That Wednesday high share may be because it is one of the £ Mansionair, Birthdays N16 least explicitly festive-themed of all the tracks £ Promiseland + Bad Gyal + Denzel Himself + Fredwell, under scrutiny, although it is undeniably Old Blue Last EC2 associated with Christmas: its play count in £ Aine Cahill + Katie Von Schleicher + Mikaela Davis, the final week of 2016 was over 100 times Hoxton Bar & Kitchen N1 that of the total in its least-streamed week in £ Rhys Lewis, Oslo E8 August. £ Rukhsana Merrise, Notting Hill Arts Club W11 As more people stream music, will we see £ Malena Zavala, Shacklewell Arms E8 an even greater proliferation of Christmas music in the December charts? In the final Thursday week of 2016 there were 13 Christmas- £ City Calm Down + Wild Front + Moncrieff, Hoxton Bar & themed tracks in the Official Top 40 Singles Kitchen N1 Chart – in the same week in 2015 there were £ Bad Sounds, Scala N1 only seven. Could this be the year that a £ Joy Crookes + Aware + Naar, Old Blue Last EC2 Christmas classic tops the chart? £ Flies + Flies, Servant Quarters N16 £ Ten Tonnes, Birthdays N16

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Alexis Castiel, co-founder of on-demand, community-led vinyl production site Diggers Factory, explains how the platform is fostering communities, informing labels of in-demand vinyl records and how its model differs from crowdfunding

working with a network of factories, forget it, and we also take care of the shipping How do you overcome the delays that studios and distribution networks, the platform when the production is finished, all as part come with pressing times? looks to provide a “full turnkey” solution to of the service. We also have a distribution It’s the biggest problem and we can’t do the procedure, rather than just a pre-order network so record shops and distributors can anything about that now. Too many people website. buy records directly from the Diggers Factory want records and there just aren’t enough Following a positive first year in business, marketplace at wholesale prices. factories. A US company launched a new including a place in the Midemlab finalists machine to press records a few years ago, so list this year, labels such as Get Physical, You’re marketing yourself as a community, I think a lot of new factories will open in the Tru Thoughts and Animal Records using how do you foster that environment? coming years and the problem will be solved the system and a number of artists seeing We have functions that allow users to ‘follow’ by itself. People understand that there is a individual success, the site has now launched friends or artists that they like, which in market now and I think within three years, give The numbers for vinyl are better than ever; its own marketplace - facilitating business and turn will alert them when friends buy a new or take, these issues won’t be there. according to research published by eBay communication between distributors, record record or artists launch a project. We also this week, a quarter of 18-24 year olds shops and individuals everywhere in the world. have a wishlist feature, which is good for the Is this a one-off marketing tactic for the purchased records in the last year, while the Co-founder Alexis Castiel explains the benefits community because they can vote for the best artists who use it? BPI figures released in January detailed 2016 of the business in more detail. and if there is a popular record that should be It’s definitely not a one-off marketing quirk, sales of vinyl as reaching a 25-year high and produced, we contact the label and let them we’ve seen it work for the same artists more outstripping that spent on digital downloads What separates Diggers Factory from know that people want to buy it. It’s a good than once. artist Kyo Itachi has already for the first time. There’s no denying it, there’s crowdfunding sites? way to join a community and allow them to seen two successful projects, with runs of 200 a market. Although keen to capitalise on the The main difference is that we only specialise speak a bit louder. and 300. French label Animal Records do all once-again-popular format, Diggers Factory in vinyl, so the people who use it will only be of their releases on Diggers Factory now and was created from a passion for the tradition of looking for vinyl. On Kickstarter you have a lot What percentage of success are you every time it works. I don’t think this is a one- crate digging, the frustration of not finding what of different things and people can get a little bit seeing on campaigns? shot solution, I think this can be used over and you’re after and the welcome new discoveries lost in the project. It’s really important for us to At the moment, we’re seeing around a over again, especially as your fans will then be that are chanced upon in a bricks and motor specialise because when you are passionate 40% success rate. There are two reasons on the platform and aware when you launch shop experience. about vinyl, the community each discover new that isn’t higher right now, one is an artist’s another campaign, thanks to the alerts. The aim of the French start-up is to music. When vinyl lovers go to record shops, lack of community and the other is lack of recreate the diggers’ community whilst they dig through lots of different boxes to communication. For the majority of the ones How do you expand going forward? facilitating a way for labels and artists find the next record, it’s the same on Diggers that haven’t worked it’s because they don’t The marketplace launched a few weeks ago to forecast demand and manage sales Factory, but online. have the fanbase to support it, if an artist has but going forward we will have more partners before production, ultimately leading to We also offer different services because 20 fans on Facebook we know it will be difficult on the platform. At the moment we have 10 less wastage and money saved. Much like we manage the money and the steps after to raise the interest. The main goal when you factories and 10 mastering studios, we’d like to a crowdfunding site, labels, artists or fans that. We work with 10 factories across the launch a project is to communicate, and if an work with all factories available so that when can create campaigns for records they hope US, France, Germany and the UK to find the artist doesn’t have the time to do that it’s really a record is produced we can more effectively to produce, or see produced, and when best factory for your project. We work with difficult to complete. locate the best factory for it. We’d also like to the target is met the process begins – with mastering studios because mastering is a implement recommendations based on the Diggers Factory taking 15%. However, by really important step for vinyl and some people previous projects backed and purchased. 4 compass

The hottest unsigned acts of the moment from RotD Music Consultant Ruth Kilpatrick Signing news £ Whenyoung have signed a deal with Universal  Two4Kay Publishing. Songwriter and producer Two4Kay was one of £ Gucci Mane has reneged the highlights of a recent show in , on his stated plan of going bringing his own UK twist to the sound that’s been independent and will stay put dominating the airwaves over the past 18 months at Atlantic Records, with a or so. Coming up predominantly through the club $10m contract extension. scene, Two4Kay has had some decent in the £ Cinq Music, the digital-first run up to his spot on the 1Xtra/BBC Introducing set , distributor and a couple of weeks ago, tying in to their Manchester rights management company, focus. His Soundcloud is full of sharp beats and has acquired T.I.’s catalogue of samples that have led to him racing up over 170k albums released while signed plays to date. Check out the video of his set to Atlantic Records from 2003 here, and follow him on for all of his latest to 2012. updates. He’s Two4Kay on Facebook too. Make sure you catch him in the flesh on November 26 at Ones to watch The Zombie Shack. Contact: [email protected] A2, Oooze, Snowy, Col3trane, Maya Law, Gabriel Black, GIYA, Berry Blacc, King Henry,  Be Good Millie Turner, [K S R], Solregn, From Oxford, Be Good’s debut track Not Waking Stella Donnelly, M.I.C, Sunken, Up hit almost 50k plays on Soundcloud since it was Hak Baker, Snowy, Congi, uploaded this summer, gaining a fair amount of whenyoung, Ojikae, Celeste, attention along the way. Listing their influences as Clive Mercury, IMOGEN, Nolay,  Amy May Ellis Parliament through to Frank Ocean, -piece Chrystal, dube, Sports Team, It’s been a good couple of months since we here at address their version of a sexual awakening via Gaffa Tape Sandy, Skinny Compass were wallowing to the extent we have been brand new single Nightbus – out now on this year’s Pelembe, Felix Pallas, Husky for the past week or so. In a return to form though, it’s final part of the Communion singles club. Having Loops, Porridge Radio, MUSH, Amy May Ellis we’ve been listening to of late, having already been added to Fresh Finds over at Spotify, Yazmin Lacey, Yiigaa, MATA, come across her track Limbs via BBC Introducing’s we’re fairly certain you’ll be hearing them creeping Alice Gold, JD.Reid, The Howl Emily Pilbeam. Weathered by Waves is Amy’s debut into your daily listening habits. The accompanying & The Hum, Sid Nathan, Critical EP, with Limbs and Hullaballoo being stand out tracks. video for Nightbus was premiered via The Powers, , Nashe xx, Based in the North York Moors, Amy can often be Independent, if you missed it take a look. Follow Felivand, FEET, Ellie Bleach, found gigging in the local area, and will be supporting Be Good on Spotify, and be sure to find them on Vinyl Staircase, Hotel Lux, Willy early next year. Listen to the whole EP on Facebook too. Caro, , Cat Burns, WENS, Spotify, and check out her Soundcloud page for a live You can see them playing at The Cellar in Oxford Lia Lia, ADE, Abi Ocia, Dylan session too. Amy May Ellis is also on Facebook. on December 14, grab your tickets here. Cartlidge. Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 5 media mongrel

£ Has an artist ever helped £ Having said that, Atlantic Without any competitive exactly share the spoils of selling bootleg records £ Many thanks to Sat Bisla a label in more ways have done a fair bit for angle, it’s nice attending Virgin’s sale to EMI. A nod at Borough Market”, a for inviting us along to than Ed Sheeran has Ed as well, such as telling an awards show where too for thinking of Ariana quip Regine was quick to one of his renowned A&R for Atlantic? He’s a him he might want to keep everyone is supportive of Grande, her manager, shut down. The MMF and Worldwide networking worldwide, multi-platform for himself. the winners. Scooter Braun, Festival FAC feel in a good place dinners, followed by a superstar in his own right. We wonder if they had Republic MD Melvin right now. Good managers showcase from Indonesian He signed Jamie Lawson the opportunity to say the £ The MMF and FAC also Benn and SJM ’ can have more positive band Speaker First. Who to his label through Atlantic same about Love Yourself. hosted their Artist & Simon Moran as Industry influence than ever and knows if there’s room for and promptly had a No. 1 Manager Awards, held Champions. The One Love embrace those lack of rules an Indonesian AC/DC with him. We understand £ Another week, another at the now-disused Daily Manchester was mentioned by Webbo. in the European market, he urged them to sign awards show. Well, two Mail printing works, now an enormous achievement, but they’re very good at (good advice). since the last issue. First, named Printworks - brought together quickly £ May we recommend any what they do. Also, it was He invited to Music Week’s Women unimaginatively enough. and so effectively. company that gets asked fascinating to learn about perform with him at the in Music event held its The venue has become a to film a message for an the Indonesian business Brits, and wore his t-shirt fourth annual event. As Mecca for sweaty ravers, £ While some of the awards show recipient that from their manager and to the after party (and yes, has been noted, several but there was no danger acceptance and they invest in smartphone leading local festival we know Stormzy wasn’t young women left the of perspiration when introductory speeches accessories – namely, a Willy Hidayat. officially on Atlantic then magazine in recent times guests were sat at tables were stilted, Darcus Beese tripod and proper light. The streaming business but we suspect it’s only to be replaced by young in the vast space. Most nailed it by pointing out he there is dominated by a matter of time before men, and the Strat Award of the winners had been had notes he’d been given £ The Sunday Telegraph international artists. For he is). He not only took at their main event having announced prior to the to read on autocue, but ad- carried a large picture domestic artists, there’s still Anne-Marie on tour but been only presented to a event, but there was still libbed brilliantly first, before of Beyoncé on page 1 of a big business in ring back visited her dressing room woman once in almost 30 space for a few on the returning to grind through its Business section, with tones, and when you order to sing with her/boost her years, doesn’t reflect on night, not least for former . Meanwhile, Lana a three line suggestion a meal at Kentucky Fried socials most nights. He the publication well, but MMF CEO and then Del Rey, presenting to Tap that EMI Publishing may Chicken, you get to choose has written hits for Rita these awards have been President Jon Webster. Management, managed be on the block – followed from one of around six top Ora and with well received. There are no He noted he couldn’t wait to make her speech more up by Industry Observer CD albums as a free gift. more to come for other complaints about the eight to get out of the old PRS about herself, just as we and others. The picture When Indonesian acts Atlantic artists no doubt. individual winners and one building “Gulag” but the predicted to our table guest really could have been meet, they often ask each To cap it all, he gives his company, but the additional best thing now was “there before she started. smaller allowing space other “are you a chicken lesser songs to artists on Roll of Honour – where four are no rules any more”. to, at very least, explain artist?” rival labels, only for them groups of three women are Credit to the organisers in £ Joke of the night had to who owned the company. to promptly stiff (Matt invited on stage to receive getting Richard Branson come from comic book They managed to get £ Guy Robin was signed Terry, , Zara a certificate leaves us to film his congratulations. artist Jamie Hewlett the number of copyrights to Chase & Status’s MTA Larsson). underwhelmed. Hopefully, With Webbo’s book on his talking about Niamh Byrne owned wildly wrong and Ms Records as Scales which the recipients didn’t feel the time at Virgin forthcoming, & Regine Moylett of Eleven Knowles is with Warner/ was very much his main same. Certainly some are Branson might be hoping to Management, managers Chappell these days, but project – but then he made deserving of a main award. be remembered favourably. of and publicity otherwise, Scoop of the a deep house cover of We trust some can be The story at the time for U2, who claimed he’d Week. Fast Car as a fun sideline. upgraded at a later point. was that the leader didn’t “known you since you were Now he’s had a record }} 6 media mongrel

breaking run of hit singles £ Press quote of the week }} SNOOP DOG - THEN AND NOW as Jonas Blue, but not from Jeff Rabhan, which on MTA, which recently is presumably an alias wound down. As Scooter for Taylor Swift’s dad: Braun says in this inspiring “She, in many ways, is the interview, the line between of the digital success and failure can be generation. She’s the only very thin. one that checks every box: digital, physical, tickets” £ Incidentally, we stumbled he went on, ignoring Ed across a Guy Robin biog Sheeran. “In my mind, from 2012 online, which she’s the most powerful included the prophetic line commodity in the music “it’s just a matter of time business.” OK, that last bit until he’s involved with a might be true, for this week global smash”. at least.

£ It’s early days, but last Friday’s featured band COLOUR won us over even more that evening with their live performance. Well presented, with a unique sound, we were very impressed. £ A bit of perspective from £ Uncut magazine’s Editor essential read for serious Pandora’s Glenn Peoples John Mulvey is joining music fans all over the £ We don’t know what in a tweet: “Amazing that MOJO magazine as Editor. world, a place of wisdom, the criteria for winning Taylor Swift sold 700k Reading between the lines insight and discovery that a MTV award is, but we albums on Friday. Let’s say of the quote from the press understands why great old were surprised to see the it sells 1.4m in the week. release it reads like there’s records should always be (attending) win That would have been no love lost in leaving the cherished, and how great Best Hip Hop after a four 0.7% of all albums sold in rival publication for a better new records are being year absence, and the six 2016. Adjusted for changes place…”I’m really proud made every year. It’ll be an times nominated (non- in albums sales #s, 1.4m to have been offered the honour to uphold MOJO‘s attending) Taylor Swift win today is the same as 7.1m best job in British music traditions and values and to nothing. in 2000”. journalism, and to be lead it into the .” joining such a gifted and long-established team. For the last three decades, MOJO has been the 7 records of the week

From RotD Music Editors Ian Greaves and Kevin Marston Okay Spaceship Miracle Ava Rene Mar Callum Beattie unsigned Mar Music 3beat out now out now out now Okay is the moving R&B is in an Miracle, the new single debut single from ascendancy right from Callum Beattie is an London based now and while empowering, life affirming track singer Ava Rene. we’re celebrating with rich textures and chiming Produced and rising British talent keys. Out last Friday, it’s had co-written with like Ray BLK, Jorja a cracking start to life with a Darren Martyn, the Smith, Mabel and premiere in TMRW magazine and single confronts Sampha, there’s added to Spotify’s New Music the personal loss a budding star Friday and ’s Best Of of Ava’s father in developing on the Week on the day of release. As this empowering continent. Mar, a predicted in our first feature back and delicate, smooth sounding in May, Callum has platinum- soulful pop number. singer from the selling potential and the proof It describes the Netherlands, is surfacing already with four million streams realisation that takes influence for his debut focus track We Are Stars. He’s though loss is from and attracted new fans with euphoric performances painful, you can Bjork on his new at Glastonbury, , British Summer cope with it and single Spaceship. It has a fabulously laid Time, Boardmasters and The Great Escape, you will inevitably back mood enhanced by subtle licks toured with Clean Cut Kid, Fickle Friends and become stronger and handclap beats which break out midway, James TW and has a London date Monday through the elevating the song towards a breathless finale. 20 November at Camden Assembly. Working experience. Starting from its simple Premiered on radio by BBC 1Xtra’s Jamz with Ken Nelson (Coldplay, Paolo Nutini), motif the track builds with each layer of Supernova and online with Notion magazine, Chris Potter (The Verve, Rolling Stones, Paul instrumentation into a beautifully comforting it follows a glowing series of praise dished out McCartney) and Cam Blackwood (, song that showcases the slick production for previous single Place which saw support ), Miracle is the first song from talents of Darren Martyn and the unique jazz- from i-D, BBC 1Xtra, C-Heads and Clash. Both a forthcoming six track EP out on 19 January inflected vocal talents of Ava. With tastemaker tracks feature on Mar’s third EP entitled Things and his debut album is planned for release next support so far from Matterz Mag, Vents and Will Be, due for release on 23 November. Just spring. In the same vein of Coldplay and Paolo BBC London, Ava is laying the groundwork for like his music suggests, Mar is a sensitive Nutini, what we simply love about Callum is his her next single, Craziest Days, which is set to artist, emotionally intelligent, progressive open-hearted songwriting and with more songs be released in early 2018. She is currently and ambitious and has perfected a sound that like this he won’t need a miracle to realise his seeking label and management interest. reaches into the very depths of your soul. musical ambitions.

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Former president of AEG Live’s Chairman and ICE has unveiled a Form 696, the police form Elbow have covered the Global royalty collections Steve CEO Jay Marciano told a new music copyright that some artists say Beatles song Golden for songwriters, music Stoute recently raised $70m conference audience that transformation project which is being used as a “racist” Slumbers for the John composers and publishers from ’s corporate the company is sticking with will increase the speed, way to target them is to be Lewis Christmas TV advert. grew by 6.8% to €8bn in umbrella Alphabet, VC’s block booking the Staples accuracy and transparency scrapped in London. (BBC) (Guardian, watch it here) 2016, helped by a 52% Andreessen Horowitz and Center in with with which ICE consolidates A new “voluntary partnership increase in digital revenues, 20th Century Fox. Now, the O2 in London for the multi-territorial copyright data. approach” will be introduced. Winners at the 2017 Artist according to new figures UnitedMasters is ready to foreseeable future. (Billboard) (RotD) & Manager Awards were: published by the International give musicians “an alternative Carol Baxter, formerly VP, Jonathan Kessler, Depeche Confederation of Societies to exploitative record Labour MP Sharon Does Jay Z’s have International Marketing at Mode manager (Lifetime of Authors and Composers label deals”. “Artists pay Hodgson, who co-chairs proper authority to stream EMI Records, has died Achievement); Tracey (CISAC). (RotD) UnitedMasters a competitive a Parliamentary group on over 500 Prince songs? from an infection whilst Thorn (Artists’ Artist); Tap rate to distribute their music ticket abuse said the time for Roc Nation says Tidal got a undergoing chemotherapy Management (Lana Del across the internet, and they “tinkering” was over and the license both in writing and for cancer. A friend says she Rey, , DJ Shadow) split the royalties while the Government should consider orally to be the first streaming was “solely responsible for (Manager); Rag’n’Bone artist retains the rights to a radical move and ban ticket outlet to distribute many of the international success of Man (Artist); Ariana Grande, the master recordings. Then touting outright. (Record) his albums. NPG Records Radiohead” and “gave Duran Scooter Braun, Simon UnitedMasters sucks back in and NPG Music Publishing, Duran a second career”. Moran, Melvin Benn (Industry all the analytics, identifies the Secondary ticketing firms two entities now controlled Champions); Niamh Byrne listeners, builds artists a CRM are under investigation by Prince’s Estate, continue The International & Regine Moylett, Eleven tool, and helps them retarget by the Competition and to insist otherwise in an Federation of Musicians Management (Gorillaz) their top fans with pinpointed Markets Authority to clarify ongoing copyright lawsuit. has introduced a ‘traffic light (Entrepreneur); , ads for tickets and merch”. whether the companies give (HR) According to papers system’ on the issue of taking Michael ‘Buck’ Maris & (TechCrunch, blog post - customers sufficient detail filed, NPG asserts that instruments on aeroplanes. Trenton Harrison-Lewis Medium) about the tickets. (Guardian, Tidal fraudulently drafted (Times) No British carrier (Pioneer); Jill Hollywood, Mail) Viagogo and Stubhub and backdated documents gets a ‘green’ ranking. Echo Beach Management UK Music Chief Executive had their offices raided relating to the original deal to (Writer/Producer Manager); Michael Dugher is after not cooperating, while feature Prince’s classic songs Music Week’s Women In Jon Webster (Unsung Hero); demanding the Chancellor GetMeIn and Seatwave on the streaming service. Music Awards were held on Tom Misch (Breakthrough orders an urgent review in are understood to have (DMN, THR) Friday. Winners here. Artist); Kilo Jalloh & Moe the Budget of business rates voluntarily supplied requested Bah, 2K Management to protect thousands of music information. One of the world’s biggest Lee O’Hanlon of TinyCow, (Breakthrough Manager). venues. (RotD) touts obtained hundreds of who organised the ill-fated (RotD) tickets for gigs within minutes Hope and Glory Festival, of them going on sale, having claims he’s owed £63,000 set up an offshore business after booking Tom Jones to in the Isle of Man to bank play on the Isle of Man in profits from reselling them to 2016. (Three.fm) music fans. (Guardian) 11 6am news tweets we liked

The least banal stories Music Week Follow us at @recordoftheday from the week’s pop press £ The Big Story: Capitol £ Interview: Inside Elton @TedKessler1 @hels } A student who made } Ta-Nehisi Coates explains on ’s global John’s greatest hits (Ted Kessler, Q magazine) (Helen Rosner, New Yorker) thousands of pounds tricking why white hip-hop fans success. (P4-5) campaign. (P44-46) Band t-shirt day can get My take is: all 30 Under music fans into buying fake shouldn’t rap the N-word fucked too. 30 lists should include concert tickets has avoided – and why they still do. £ Frontline: Artists reap £ The Aftershow: Alison disclosure of parental assets jail “by a whisker”. (BBC) (Independent) rewards from ticketing tie- Wenham, Chief Exec of @maura ins. (P6) WIN. (P64) (Maura Johnston, writer) @ZombyMusic (Zomby, DJ) } Nothing But Thieves have } Blue Planet is attracting more if music is as much of If you’re a DJ in 2017 and taken to Twitter to deny young viewers, with the music £ Rising Star: Joel Quartey a leading indicator for aren’t juggling fire naked allegations of sexual assault. of Hans Zimmer in particular – Marketing Manager at culture as i think it is, while plunging shots of (TheMusic) “striking a chord”. (Star) . (P7) the increasingly higher vodka into your eyeball placement of certain you’re getting no shows } Lil Peep, an emerging US £ Talent: Island MD hails artists on festival lineups singer, rapper and YouTube ‘streaming phenomenon’ of is a terrible portent for @Fabiodnb (Artist) star, has died according to Post Malone’s campaign. the eventual rehabs of Anyone gonna stare at their multiple reports. (Billboard) (P8) weinstein, ck, etc. phones anywhere cool this weekend? } Forbes name their 30 Under £ On the Radar: . @EarlsJohn 30 music stars. (P11) (John Earls, journalist) Michael Buble and Bruno } Taylor Swift’s Reputation £ Sync Story: Audi / Faultline Mars to headline Hyde has sold more a million copies & Lisa Hannigan. (P12) Park. We really have taken in the US in its first four days. Britain back to the pre-rock (Billboard) £ Making Waves: IAMDDB. & roll austerity years. Max (P12) Bygraves to headline Isle Of } New live and Wight. club, Ghost Notes, to open in £ Cover Story: Jo Dipple – Peckham. (VinylFactory) her career so far. (P16-18)

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Digital }  has quietly added } Kickstarter is relaunching } In a partnership with Google Cast support to its Drip, the platform for artist , YouTube will Music app. (TNW) and label subscriptions that begin featuring hundreds of it bought in 2016, shortly artists’ upcoming US tour } Concert discovery platform after its previous owners dates on their YouTube Bandsintown is giving warned they were having to videos beneath the video’s venues and festivals more shut it down. (MusicAlly) description. (TechCrunch, control when it comes to Verge, YouTube) alerting fans of new events. Radio, Television, (Billboard) Venues can now Publishing and PR } Spotify ’s biggest Latin use Bandsintown Manager } Uncut magazine’s Editor playlist is rolling out video to claim and customise John Mulvey is joining internationally. (Verge) their own brand profiles, Mojo magazine as Editor. and more importantly, } Deezer has launched a new create and publish events } BBC Music is to broadcast universal desktop app for independently. an hour-long show, U2 At Mac and Windows, with an The BBC, for BBC One to option for high-definition } With touch-screen devices be broadcast in December. audio. (RotD) like the Echo Show and (BBC) Echo Spot, Amazon is } Spotify ’s partnership with trying to upend a decade of } The BBC Music Awards, Merchbar, which started smartphones, notifications, the annual show launched last year to sell artists’ and apps. (FastCo) in 2014, “will now be part of merchandise on their profile a new star-studded music pages, is going to start } Spotify has named Michael review of the year show selling beauty products. Krause as Managing next month on BBC2”, a (TechCrunch) “This is not Director of EMEA. (MBW) BBC spokesperson says. a new revenue stream for He was formerly Vice (Sun) Spotify, which does not take President, Central/Eastern a cut of any of the sales Europe at Deezer, as well } Sounds Like Friday Night that happen through the as CEO, EMEA. registered 2.32m viewers platform. The idea, instead, (13.9% audience share) for is to sweeten the deal for } A technical error has led to the latest show. The first artists and give them more a drop in the follower counts episode recorded 2.2m opportunities to make for a number of Spotify (12.2%) and the second money on Spotify beyond playlists, but the service 1.61m (9.1%). streaming”. says it is working to correct the problem. (MusicAlly)

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RADIO 1’S TUNE OF THE WEEK RADIO 2 PLAYLIST ADDITIONS ITUNES TOP SONGS DEEZER POP TOP 10 Adele Roberts – Mon-Fri 0400-0630 P!nk Beautiful trauma A List 1 Anywhere 1 Camila Cabello Havana Wolf Alice Don’t Delete The Kisses Liam Gallagher Come Back To Me B List 2 Camila Cabello Havana 2 Ed Sheeran Perfect Guilty B List Nick Grimshaw – Mon-Fri 0630-1000 3 Stormzy Blinded By Your Grace pt. 2 3 Zayn ft Sia Dusk Til Dawn Sheridan Smith City Of Stars B List 4 Perfect N.E.R.D & Lemon Ed Sheeran  4 Sam Smith Too Good at Goodbyes Maren Morris 80s Mercedes C List 5 Eminem ft Beyonce Walk on Water 5 Rita Ora Anywhere – Mon-Fri 1000-1300 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe He Lives in You C List 6 Marshmello Silence 6 Dua Lipa  RAYE ft. Mr. Eazi Decline 7 Sam Smith Too Good at Goodbyes 7 CNCO & Reggaeton Lento Scott Mills – Mon-Fri 1300-1600 RADIORADIO 22 RECORDRECORD OFOF THETHE WEEKWEEK 8 Clean Bandit I Miss You 8 How Long Selena Gomez x Marshmello Wolves 9 MK 17 9 Maroon 5 feat. SZA What Lovers Do Sheridan Smith He Lives In You 10 Big Shaq Mans Not Hot – Mon-Thu 1600-1900 10 Liam Payne Bedroom Floor Burns George FitzGerald RADIORADIO 22 RECORDALBUM OFOF THETHE WEEKWEEK ITUNES MUSIC STORE – USA SPOTIFY MOST SHARED VIRAL Annie Mac – Mon-Thu 1900-2100 Sigrid Strangers Paloma Faith The Architect 1 Camila Cabello Havana 1 Eminem ft Beyonce Walk on Water 2 Perfect Charlie Sloth – Mon-Thurs - 21:00-23:00 Ed Sheeran  2 Sunset Bros & Mark MCCabe I’m Feeling It (In the Air) 3 Imagine Dragons Thunder 3 Golden Slumbers Dave ft. MoStack No Words 6 MUSIC PLAYLIST ADDITIONS Elbow  4 Eminem ft Beyonce Walk on water 4 Fuse ODG, Ed Sheeran, Mugeez Boa Me Huw Stephens – Mon-Wed 2200-0100 The War on Drugs Nothing to Find A List 5 Post Malone Rockstar 5 Easy Life Pockets Pale Waves New Year’s Eve Belle & Sebastian I’ll Be Your Pilot B List 6 Taylor Swift Ready for it? 6 CliQ, Alika Wavey Tune Of The Weekend – Sat-Sun Bjork Blissing Me B List 7 Keith Urban Female 7 SHY Martin Good Together Continental Breakfast B List RAYE ft. Mr. Eazi Decline & Kurt Vile  8 Sam Smith Too Good at Goodbyes 8 NERD ft Rihanna Lemon Ezra Furman Love You So Bad B List 9 Maroon 5 What Lovers Do 9 Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych Carol of the Bells George Fitzgerald Burns C List 10 Bebe Rexha Meant to Be 10 6ix9ine GUMMO RADIO 1 PLAYLIST ADDITIONS The Orielles Let Your Dogtooth Grow C List ITUNES MUSIC STORE – AUSTRALIA HYPE MACHINE TOP 5 ARTISTS Eminem feat. Beyonce Walk on Water A List 6 MUSIC ALBUMS OF THE DAY & Afrojack featuring Charli XCX & 1 Eminem ft Beyonce Walk On Water http://hypem.com/ French Montana Dirty Sexy Money C List Monday Spinning Coin Permo 2 Camila Cabello Havana 1 Bryde Desire George FitzGerald Burns C List Tuesday Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest 3 Ed Sheeran Perfect 2 TEN FÉ Single, No Return Rag’n’Bone Man Grace (We All Try) C List Wednesday Chic Chic (classic) 4 Post Malone Rockstar 3 Glassio Daydream (feat. NAKAYA) Rex Orange County Loving is Easy C List Thursday Missy Elliott Under Construction (classic) 5 Sam Smith Too Good at Goodbyes 4 EASY LIFE Pockets Tom Walker Leave a Light On C List Friday Björk Utopia 6 Marshmello Silence 5 Someone Forget Forgive RedFaces Take It Or Leave It Introducing 7 Selena Gomez & Marshmello Wolves 8 Macklemore Good Old Days LYRIC FIND CHART UK 9 Khalid Young Dumb & Broke AMAZING RADIO CHART 15 November 2017 10 Maroon 5 What Lovers Do 1 Wolf Alice Beautifully Unconventional 1 Taylor Swift ...Ready For It? 2 BOYS Why Were You Alone 2 Taylor Swift Look What You Made Me Do 3 PLAZA Speak it 3 Post Malone Rockstar POPJUSTICE BIG SONG 4 Madison Beer Dead 4 Taylor Swift Gorgeous 5 Isaac Gracie The Death of You & I source: www.popjustice.com 5 Sam Smith Too Good At Goodbyes October 19 2017 LOOP Maybe I’m a liar 6 Jessie Ware Love To Love ANNIE MAC’S HOTTEST RECORD 7 Rita Ora Anywhere 8 Clean Bandit ft. Julia Michaels I Miss You CAPITAL FM PLAYLIST Monday 13 November Icarus No Sleep 9 Taylor Swift Getaway Car Playlist for week commencing 17 November Tuesday 14 November Bad Sounds Are You High? 10 Taylor Swift Delicate Wednesday 15 November Diplo Get It right Ft. MØ Dave feat.Mostak No Words Friday 17 November Mella Dee Techno Tool Eminem Feat. Beyoncé Walk On Water

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1 Various Artists Now That’s what I call Music 98 Amazing Record Co. Presents: 2 Tokio Myers Our Generation 3 Iron Maiden The Book of Souls Live A List 4 Paloma Faith The Architect Pip Blom School 5 Jools Holland & Jose Feliciano As You See Me Now 6 Andre Rieu Amore 7 Little Mix Glory Days B List 8 Morrissey Low in High School Drahla Silk Spirit 9 Various Artists BBC Radio 1’s 2017 Ginger Snaps Anorak (Feat. Vo Williams) 10 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds  Negative Space Who Built the Moon? Hookworms Jodie Abacus Meet Me In The Middle SHAZAM NEW RELEASE CHART USA Pale Waves New Years Eve Wolf Alice Don’t Delete The Kisses 1 , , Motorsport 2 Eminem ft Beyonce Walk on Water 3 NERD ft Rihanna Lemon C List 4 Selena Gomez ft Marshmello Wolves Alex Lahey I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of 5 Remy Ma feat. Lil Kim Wake Me Up Myself 6 Keith Urban Female Anteros Bonnie 7  & & Feat. Travi$ mAsis Brother Scott Ghostface Killers Offshore 8 21 Savage & Offset & Metro Boomin  Drip Matvei 9 Famous Dex feat. A$AP Rocky Pick It Up Public Access TV Metrotech 10 Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran & Future End Game VUKOVI And He Lost His Mind Sunflower Bean I Was A Fool SHAZAM NEW RELEASE CHART UK 1 Rita Ora Anywhere Specialist Spot Plays 2 Stormzy Blinded By Your Grace pt.2 Temple Invisible PARASITE 3 Clean Bandit ft Julia Michaels I Miss You 4 RAYE ft. Decline 5 Elbow Golden Slumbers 6 Selena Gomez ft Marshmello Wolves Key 7 Feat. Kehlani & Lil Yachty Faking It New Additions 8 NERD ft Rihanna Lemon 9 Zach Knight & Jasmin Walia Bom Diggy 10 Dave ft. MoStack No Words

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