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THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
176,000 Copies of One Direction’s
Up All Night sold in its open- ing week saw them become the first British band in his- tory to enter the chart at number one with their debut album in the US
8.4m
People tuned in to watch The Voice on Saturday
FEEDBACK
Radiohead tickets ARE on Viagogo – for £600 each Caitlin: “Sorry I’m still trying to get my head around this – £180 booking fee??!!! I cannot fathom how this can even happen, and how on earth Viagogo can even pretend to care about their customers. Disgusting.” Jack: “I bought two tickets for The O2 shows (£175 for two!) from Ticketmaster on the day of release, but I bought them on a friend’s card who now cannot come. So now I have £175 of unusable tickets – brilliant. mr pooler: “I actually have tickets and paid no delivery fee its all ticketless wrist band on entry lol.”
PIRATES’ BAY
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY
MUSO.com OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON MARCH 26 136
Paul Weller Sonik Kicks
Military Wives In My Dreams David Guetta Nothing But...
Emeli Sande Our Version Of... Adele 21
Lana Del Rey Born To Die Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
19
Years after Rod Stewart last performed with The Faces, the singer is set to rejoin the band for a one-off per-
formance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 14
2
Legendary LPs leapfrogged in one week as Adele’s 21 overtook Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon and Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms in the UK’s biggest-selling album list
34.1 Per cent cut in record
company TV advertising budgets last year, down to £38.5m
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball Ed Sheeran +
Michael Kiwanuka Home Again 0 Source:
Muso.com LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@jprobyn It’s a dream come true, Steps, Rick Astley, Jason Donovan, Hazell Dean and many more all on one night in Hyde Park – Pete Waterman is a god!
(John Probyn, Live Nation) Tuesday, March 20
@willtheaks Birdsong. Not just a great novel and rubbish West End play, but an event occurring outside. hash tag spring sprung ornothological tweetage
(Will Theakston, Warp Records) Tuesday, March 20
@DavidEmery Interesting; on the iPad you can scroll through the iTunes charts forever (as opposed to it being limited to the top 200 on the desktop)
(David Emery, Beggars Group) Wednesday, March 21
@DavidEmery ...which means I can exclusively reveal that Baby by Justin Bieber is currently at No.999... (David Emery, Beggars Group)
Wednesday, March 21
@rebeccaschiller Just walked past a woman on the street with a Sainsburys bag tied over her head. It’s not raining... (Rebecca Schiller,
NME.com)
Thursday, March 22
@JamieVaide I have no idea who Tulisa is – the first I heard of her was when she was blathering about a spank video in the papers.
(Jamie Vaide, Universal Music Group) Thursday, March 22
@spencerhickman dear @eBay so peo- ple are selling @recordstoreday titles on your site already and they are not released to buy until 21st April ....
(Spencer Hickman, Rough Trade, Record Store Day) Friday, March 23
@example On my way to meet @edsheeran. We’re gonna play each other our new album demos and eat pesto bread. #NoLego
(Example) Friday, March 23 Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews
@theeviluncle Always a bit embarrassing when someone comes into the office for a meeting and I’m blaring out The Lion King soundtrack...
(Austen Cruickshank, Visible Noise) Friday, March 23
@soundboy If your product isn’t com- pelling enough to partner with as a brand, make it better. White label is where weak products go to die.
(Ian Hogarth, Songkick) Friday, March 23
@AlyssaReid Everytime I want to tweet Aqua lyrics, I have to stop myself because I don’t realize how raunchy they are till I type them out...
(Alyssa Reid) Sunday, March 25
@MartinTalbot Jimmy Bullard is like the queen - very expensive, but good for morale. Discuss. #ITFC (Martin Talbot, OCC) Friday, March 23
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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP WEEK 12
SINGLES Universal 34.2% EMI 27.5% Sony 18.0% Warner 16.6% Others 3.6%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 37.1% EMI 22.5% Sony 18.6% Warner 9.7% Others 12.1%
© Official Charts Company
INK SPOTS
Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you.
That chap Weller seems to be everywhere at the moment. He graces the cover of Q’s May issue looking sharp as ever. He talks about how his father and manager inspired him, drove him to success and continued to be a key part of his career right up to his death. Q sits in the analogue world of
Tim: “Jack, surely that’s the point of the deal with Ticket Trust, to allow you to sell your tickets on? Have you approached them?”
MUSIC WEEK POLL
This week we asked... Will allowing represented artists to enter The X Factor upset the format of the show?
YES 71% NO 29%
Toe Rag Studios with Michael Kiwanuka and gets to know the mellow jazz man, born after his time, apparently, as a 25-year-old that’s “so Seventies”. Gotye talks about how he
never intended to write a com- mercial pop song and how the success of Somebody That I Used To Know has happened on his own terms while Tenacious D fill the Cash For Questions page as Jack Black and Kyle Gass answer readers’ questions including why they didn’t go for the name ‘Black Gass’. It’s because it sounds like ‘Black Ass’. Madonna’s MDNA fronts the new
album reviews scoring four stars and Jack White’s first solo effort gets the same with Q deeming a potential fourth band “surplus to requirments”
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