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 SINGLES MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q1 10


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 COMPILATIONS MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q1 10


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Q309 Q409 Q110 Q210 Q310 Q410 Q111 Q211 Q311


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 SINGLES SHARE Universal 34.4% Sony 18.4%


Warner 14.1% EMI 13.6%


Ministry of Sound 2.0% XL Beggars 1.7% Domino 0.3% Peacefrog 0.3% Demon 0.2% Naive 0.2%


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 ALBUMS BY COMPANY SHARE Polydor 8.2%


Island 7.6%


Columbia 7.2% RCA 7.1%


Virgin 6.6% Mercury 5.2%


Atlantic 4.6% UMTV 4.5%


Parlophone 3.6% Warner Bros 3.4%


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TOP 10 SINGLES Q3 2011 POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL


1 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Island


2 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA Titanium Positiva/Virgin


3 JESSIE J Domino Island/Lava 4 FLO RIDA FEAT. SIA Wild Ones Atlantic 5 EMELI SANDÉ Next To Me Virgin 6 RIZZLE KICKS Mama Do The Hump Island


7 DJ FRESH FEAT RITA ORA Hot Right Now MoS 8 NICKI MINAJ Starships Cash Money/Island 9 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) 10 FLO RIDA Good Feeling Atlantic


RCA 8 Source: OCC 10 0 0 Warner 12.1%


XL Beggars 3.8% Ministry of Sound 2.8% Demon 1.5% Union Square 0.6% Sour Mash 0.6% Domino 0.5%


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 ALBUMS BY DISTRIBUTOR SHARE Arvato 42.5%


EMI 16.1% Universal 9.6%


Sony 4.9% PIAS Sony DADC 4.8% Warner 4.2%


Sony DADC 3.5%


Proper 1.3% ADA Arvato 1.3% Beggars Group 1.1%


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what was a record year last year, but notes: “It’s even more difficult to judge the singles market within just one quarter. We all know one million-selling single can shift the numbers. If you look at Q1 in isolation it’s great it’s up on the year, but we’ll have a better idea of what the trend is later in the year.” From a UK talent perspective the market was


particularly encouraging with homegrown artists providing 47 of the quarter’s 100 top sellers, compared to 43 on Q1 2011’s chart. This rise was led by four of the 10 biggest sellers being British: Island/Lava act Jessie J’s Domino, Next To Me by Virgin’s Emeli Sande, Island-signed Rizzle Kicks’ Mama Do The Hump and Ministry of Sound’s DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora with Hot Right Now. The US share dropped year-on-year


10 15 20 25 30 35 40


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Q110 Q210 Q310 Q410 Q111 Q210 Q311 Q411 Q112


UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDEPENDENTS


 ALBUMS BY GROUP SHARE Universal 32.1%


Sony 16.3% EMI 14.7%


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For Universal the losses it sustained in the artist albums market were partially compensated by a lift in the compilations sector where it sold around 135,000 extra non-budget albums compared to a year ago, a 14.4% rise”


 ARTIST ALBUMS MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q1 10


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Q110 Q210 Q310 Q410 Q111 Q210 Q311 Q411 Q112


UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDEPENDENTS


 TOTAL ALBUMS MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q1 10


new Bruce Springsteen offering Wrecking Ball and a wave of tribute buying for Whitney Houston who passed away on February 11 on the eve of the Grammy Awards. It also had a very successful quarter on compilations, led by its Sixties female artists set Be My Baby, which sold an unrivalled 193,169 copies and lifted the major’s various artists share year-on-year from 13.4% to 16.0%, overtaking EMI in the process. Warner provided two of the top half-dozen


artist albums of the quarter through Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars’ debuts, but the major’s sizable year-on-year sales drop was because it did not have the strength in depth it enjoyed 12 months earlier. In Q1 2011 its fifth top artist album Good Ol’ Fashioned Love by The Overtones was the 12th top title overall, but its fifth top seller in the first quarter of this year, Chris Isaak’s Beyond The Sun, finished in a far more modest 42nd place on the quarter-end chart. XL Beggars was realistically never going to


match its Q1 2011 performance when Adele’s two albums helped it to accumulate 2.6 million full- and mid-price album sales and an 11.1% market share. Despite Adele’s 21 being the quarter’s top seller a year later as well, its shares fell back to 3.8% as the independent albums sector as a whole was 24.8% smaller than in Q1 2011. Fellow independent Ministry of Sound uniquely


among the bigger players enjoyed growth on both artist albums and compilations with sales up overall by 18.8% on the year to nearly 560,000 units. This added up to around 90,000 extra non-budget albums sold compared to 12 months earlier. On singles Universal’s sales rose 2.9% on the


year to 15.0 million as the likes of Gotye featuring Kimbra’s Somebody That I Used To Know helped it to an unrivalled 34.4%. However, as with albums, EMI made the biggest gains overall with a 30.3% hike and its market share rising from 11.1% to 13.6%, although it remained in fourth place. Partially compensating its albums reverse,


Warner’s singles sales were up 13.3% on the year with Flo Rida supplying its two biggest hits of the quarter as it ranked third with a 14.1% share, but second-placed Sony’s sales slipped 7.6% with Kelly Clarkson’s Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) in ninth position, its top seller. Even though it was competing with Q1 2011


when Adele scored megahits with Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep, the indies collectively sold 18.7% more singles this past quarter with Ministry of Sound leading the way.


from 41% to 35%, while with the period’s top two sellers coming from Belgian-born Australian Gotye and Frenchman David Guetta the number of tracks by acts from outside the UK and US also grew. There were eight from Europe, compared to six in Q1 2011, and 10 from the rest of the world, up from six a year earlier. Pop and contemporary urban


remain by far the market’s two dominant genres, making up 70% of the quarter’s Top 100 sellers between them. However, dance has made up some ground over the past year. Pop’s 35% share compares to 44% in Q1


David Guetta


2011 and includes Jessie J’s Domino, while contemporary urban’s share was 35%, down from 43% 12 months ago. Going the other way, dance grew its presence from 9% to 16% thanks to the likes of Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta with Titanium and Ministry of Sound act DJ Fresh’s second UK chart-topper Hot Right Now. Rock also recovered significantly from having just three of Q1 2011’s Top 100 sellers to 10 in 2012’s equivalent chart. This run included hits by Parlophone’s Coldplay, Columbia’s Foster The People and arguably Gotye whose number one track of the quarter is classified as rock by the Official Charts Company.


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