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THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
6.4bn Dollar loss anticipated by
Sony Corp for the past year ending March 31. That’s a revised figure from a
previously predicted loss of $2.7bn
10
New categories added to the Kerrang! Awards
including Best TV Show, Best Video Game and Best Festival
187,000
Dollars paid out by Whitney Houston’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey for
police overtime during the singer’s funeral
2.6m Dollars paid to EMI by
Grooveshark to date, the music service claimed, as
its licensing agreement with the publisher was
terminated last week 18 Years after signing to the
label with the Spice Girls, Mel B returns to EMI with
new material to be released later this year
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Muso.com LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@timchipping There's no bigger Spice Girls fan than me, but Victoria has a bet- ter chance of another hit than Mel B. What are EMI thinking?
(Tim Chipping, Holy Moly) Tuesday, April 3
@jetfury I think I only understand 15% of the tweets of the people in here. (Geoff Barrow, Portishead) Wednesday, April 4
@inekedaans I love my green healthy superfood but quinoa, I give up. You really are the devil's dandruff. You and I are DONE.
(Ineke Daans, PIAS) Wednesday, April 4
@andipeters Going to Boots when you're not well is like going to @sains- burys when you're hungry. I managed to spend £50, on what I'm not quite sure! (Andi Peters) Wednesday, April 4
@DownloadFest Anyone else a BIG fan of 4-day weekends? Make’s much more sense than actually WORKING all week, right?
(Download Festival) Monday, April 9
@emelisande Music making on the train!Let’s see what this journey inspires :)
pic.twitter.com/jRjbhi8o (Emeli Sandé) Monday, April 9
@Mark_Mulligan YouTube album playlists work a little *too* well don't they? And usually fewer ads than Spotify free. Artist pay outs also much lower.
(Mark Mulligan, analyst) Tuesday, April 10
@sheena_is weirdest dream last night. I was DJ’ing at lady gaga's birthday party cause someone dropped out. I don't like gaga and I don't DJ. Wtf brain (Sheena, Charm Factory)
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@Gentlemansunion Getting the anti normal music vaccine in early this week. Soft Machine thanks. (Samuel Ward, Sentric Music)
Tuesday, April 10
@mr_trick I think he has a point here: “Jimmy Iovine: Streaming Services Are ‘Culturally Inadequate...’”
http://j.mp/HwtXBG Thoughts people? (Darren Hemmings, Motive Unknown)
Tuesday, April 10
@ollyofficial Awkward just ran into taxi, 'leicester sq please' the guy turns around, says 'oi this ain't a taxi mate' sorry fella! I'm still half asleep! (Olly Murs) Tuesday, April 10
@AlexDaKid all about them Instagram stocks :) (Alex Da Kid) Tuesday, April 10
FEEDBACK
4m fewer albums sold so far this year than in 2011; singles up 2m
Ross: Part of the problem is Radio 1 not supporting some of the bigger artists that have released albums like Madonna or Bruce Springsteen (right) as the are “too old” and they focus on the sin- gle-driven artists. I think they forget music does not have an age limit and you like what you like.
PIRATES’ BAY
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY
MUSO.com OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON APRIL 10 207
Labrinth Electronic Earth Moshi Monsters Music Rox!
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Adele 21
Emeli Sande Our Version Of Events David Guetta Nothing But... Madonna MDNA
Lostprophets Weapons Jessie J Who You Are
Ed Sheeran + 0 79
15 19
139 1,896 412 256 77 482 500 1000 1500 2000
Jonathan Simon: 1942–2012 Trevor Chenery: What sad news. I worked with Jonathan many years ago at Chappells where he started in the print music divi- sion, Symphony Music. He inherited the ethos, culture & integrity of the best music publishers of that time who worked at and with
Chappell Music; Teddy Holmes, Frank Coachworth, Terry Oates to name just a few. Very sad.
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With Metallica set to play The Black Album in its entirety at Download this year, Metal Hammer takes some time out with the band to ask all the whys about the revisit as well as cov- ering the next Metallica album, which the mag reckons has the potential to be the best in a long time. Huntress’ Jill Janus talks about
her ‘marriage to metal’ and about how being a pagan witch has informed her music. Where would she be if it weren’t for Huntress? In a little witch hut in the middle of the woods, growing her armpit hair and smoking weed, apparently. Dragonforce’s Herman Li ponders
a potentially poisoned chalice. He says that the band’s association with Guitar Hero put a lot of metal heads off and that they could have been even bigger had it not been for the video game. Cancer Bats score a 9/10 in the
reviews section with Dead Set On Living. “Quite honestly, if this doesn’t turn up in your end-of-year lists, you’re doing it wrong,” says Merlin Alderslade.
MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP WEEK 14
SINGLES Universal 39.9% EMI 20.3% Sony 20.1% Warner 15.0% Others 4.7%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 39.2% Sony 23.5% EMI 16.0% Warner 8.6% Others 12.7%
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