Cover-15.03.13_cover template 12/03/13 09:49 Page 1 11 9 776669 776136 THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC www.musicweek.com 15.03.13 £5.15 40 million albums sold worldwide 8 million albums sold in the UK Project1_Layout 1 12/03/2013 10:07 Page 1 Multiple Grammy Award winner to release sixth studio album ahead of his ten sold out dates in June at the O2 Arena ‘To Be Loved’ 15/04/2013 ‘It’s A Beautiful Day’ 08/04/2013 Radio Added to Heart, Radio 2, Magic, Smooth, Real, BBC Locals Highest New Entry and Highest Mover in Airplay Number 6 in Airplay Chart TV March BBC Breakfast Video Exclusive 25/03 ‘It’s A Beautiful Day’ Video In Rotation 30/03 Ant & Dec Saturday Night Takeaway 12/04 Graham Norton Interview And Performance June 1 Hour ITV Special Expected TV Audience of 16 million, with further TVs to be announced Press Covers and features across the national press Online Over 5.5 million likes on Facebook Over 1 million followers on Twitter Over 250 million views on YouTube Live 10 Consecutive Dates At London’s O2 Arena 30th June • 1st July • 3rd July • 4th July 5thSOLD July OUT • 7thSOLD July OUT • 8thSOLD July OUT • 10thSOLD July OUT 12thSOLD July OUT • 13thSOLD July OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT Marketing Nationwide Poster Campaign Nationwide TV Advertising Campaign www.michaelbuble.com 01 MARCH15 Cover_v5_cover template 12/03/13 13:51 Page 1 11 9 776669 776136 THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC www.musicweek.com 15.03.13 £5.15 ANALYSIS PROFILE FEATURE 12 15 18 The story of physical and digital Music Week talks to the team How the US genre is entertainment retail in 2012, behind much-loved Sheffield crossing borders ahead of with new figures from ERA venue The Leadmill London’s C2C festival Pet Shop Boys leave Parlophone NEW ALBUM COMING IN JUNE G WORLDWIDE DEAL SIGNED WITH KOBALT LABEL SERVICES TALENT can say they have worked with I BY TIM INGHAM any artist for 28 years, but Parlophone have and we are very et Shop Boys have left proud of that. We have been P Parlophone Records after fortunate enough to have been 28 years, signing their partners in one of the most forthcoming studio album successful careers in pop culture. Electric to Kobalt Label Services “Neil and Chris to this day in a global deal. influence so many with their Duo Neil Tennant and Chris incredible songwriting and music. Lowe, who signed to Parlophone We wish them every success in in 1985, have recorded 42 Top 30 the future and look forward to UK singles in their history, with continuing our relationship with four No.1s. Their new album them across their entire and Electric has been produced by enviable catalogue.” Stuart Price and will be released Pet Shop Boys’ last LP, in June 2013. Further news about Elysium, was released in the LP is expected soon. September 2012. It reached No.9 Tennant and Lowe told Music and has sold just over 25,000 Week in a statement: “This is a and successful a relationship we includes a night at London’s O2 team is hugely excited to be a units in the UK to date, according very exciting point in our careers. were embarking on. Arena on June 18. part of the forthcoming Pet Shop to Official Charts Company data. We are hugely proud of the new “However it is also exciting Kobalt Label Service’s first Boys release. PSB are the third major band album and are very pleased to be now to commence a new phase international album release, Push “We look forward to working to recently leave a label related to working in conjunction with working with a new team in a The Sky Away by Nick Cave & in partnership with Neil, Chris, Universal’s buyout of EMI Music. Kobalt. We’d like to thank new business structure and we the Bad Seeds, recently debuted at and the Becker Brown Daft Punk signed with Columbia everyone we’ve worked with at look forward to a creative and No.1 in seven countries and Top 4 [management] team to maximise in January after 17 years with Parlophone over the last 28 years equally fulfilling relationship in 13 other countries. the potential of the record, which Virgin, whilst Depeche Mode both in the UK and abroad. with Kobalt.” Paul Hitchman, MD of is already sounding like a classic.” reached a deal with the same When we signed to the label in Pet Shop Boys will embark on Kobalt Label Services (KLS), Miles Leonard, president of Sony label after more than 30 1985 we had no idea how long the Electric tour this year, which said: “The whole global KLS A&R at Parlophone, said: “Few years with Mute Records. Should industry expect to pay for sync? The music supervisor behind the “If you expect nothing, then higher. Fees have systematically still pay anything for it. To me the [fee], I know for a fact that the soundtracks to hit US TV shows you’ll probably be very pleased,” gone down over the years. That’s potential [exposure] opportunity promotional value that the show such as Glee and CSI: Miami is he said. “If you expect to make a going to continue to happen.” is immense and potentially a great gave to that music had a really “shocked” that TV studios still $50,000 sync fee then you’re Bloom is a partner at one of thing. I would argue that if you as positive impact on attendance at pay labels for sync tracks, rather probably going to be the US’ largest music supervision music rights owners could buy the the band’s shows and sales of than the other way around. disappointed. There was a good firms, Neophonic, with credits right sync, you probably would. their records did increase Talking to AIM members at moment 7-10 years ago when the across film, video games and even It’s the same as purchasing some exponentially. While we’re right the association’s Sync Licensing retail record business was theme park rides. sort of publicity.” to be concerned about the to TV, Film, Adverts and Games starting to fail and sync was “Personally I’m shocked that Bella Union founder Simon budgets, what [Bloom] says is event, PJ Bloom candidly starting to take over. Our you don’t pay [TV shows] to get Raymonde later added: “I had a very interesting because it isn’t warned that the days of scoring budgets were higher, the notion your music in there,” he added. “I track by a Swedish band called I the be all and end all.” big lump payments from sync of licensing music had much don’t say that to piss anybody off, Break Horses on a show called I Big Interview with PJ Bloom: placements are over. more value so the fees were much it’s just amazing to me that we Skins. Even though there was no Page 10 and 11 02 NEWS_v4_News and Playlists 13/03/13 09:50 Page 2 2 Music Week 15.03.13 www.musicweek.com NEWS EDITORIAL The xx’s Coexist Gunned down by wins IMPALA Award Call of Duty, where INDEPENDENT ALBUM HONOUR FOR BAND’S 2ND LP are music’s hits? AWARDS GOOD NEWS FOR the streaming believers arrived this week with he second album by the confirmation that Spotify’s international paying subscriber base T London band The xx, has hit 6 million around the world. Coexist, has won the That’s a climb of a full million in just the three months since early IMPALA Independent Album December last year. Considering the platform took five months to of the Year Award. move from 4 million to 5 million subscribers (July - December A shortlist of 18 European 2012), and six months to wiggle up from 3 million to 4 million independent releases from 2012 (January - July 2012), it appears the pace of its monetised growth pitched The xx against a variety is gathering inarguable momentum. of artists, including those from At this rate, it should comfortably surpass 9 million this year, and genres as diverse as drum and nudge an eight-figure global paying audience by Christmas. bass (Netsky), folk (First Aid This latest Spotify announcement arrived, funnily enough, on Kit), hip-hop (Cro and Frenkie) Tuesday: the same day that the Entertainment Retailers Association and reggae ( Jukka Poika). Other (ERA) confirmed that UK consumers streamed audio tracks 3.7 nominated albums came from billion times last year - a jump of 40% on 2011, and a numerical (if the likes of Alt-J, Django Django slightly unfair) equivalent to the total number of singles purchased and Enter Shikari. in the 60 years of the Official Chart. And all this in the week when Coexist is the second album Bastille scored the highest digital share for any No.1 album in that The xx have released an independent record label quote gives the recipe – ‘time, history, with 68% of purchases of LP Bad Blood coming online. through Young Turks (via XL), means so much to us. support and patience’.” the London-based label that has “We are very aware that the The winner of the IMPALA also issued LPs by past and time, support and patience given Independent Album of the Year “At this rate Spotify should comfortably surpass present nominees for the to us by our label is not always is voted for by a jury of 9 million paying subscribers by the end of 2013.