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THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
84 Years of age and Bruce
Forsyth decides to make his festival debut with a
performance scheduled at Hop Farm this year
20m Pounds in the bank puts
Adele at the top of another chart: the Sunday Times Rich List of young British musicians
3.95bn
Dollars to be paid by Prince to Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics after the star failed to
promote the 3121 perfume tied to his 2006 album of the same name
40
Years of 10cc will be celebrated at the Royal
Albert Hall on May 10 with Kevin Godley joining the band’s current line-up
1,753
Followers of One Direction on Twitter. That’s the
American One Directon (below), of course
FEEDBACK
Prime Minister ‘disappointed’ with music industry over explicit videos
Ian Softley: “For once I agree with David Cameron. This is supposed to be the MUSIC industry not the SEX TRADE. Enough is enough, take away the sex videos and lets see how many they sell. Cliff never took any clothes off!! Did he?”
webbo: “Music industry ‘disappointed’ with Prime Ministers response to implementation of Digital Economy
PIRATES’ BAY
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY
MUSO.com OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON APRIL 16 36
Adele 21
Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls Nicki Minaj Pink Friday
Jessie J Who You Are
Emeli Sande Our Version Of Events Lana Del Rey Born To Die
David Guetta Nothing But... Labrinth Electronic Earth
Moshi Monsters Music Rox! Ed Sheeran +
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Muso.com LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@sebmysko Email has gone very quiet. It must be Coachella. Me likes. (Sebastian Mysko, Rising Digital) Thursday, April 12
@petetong people are going to go insane when they see @Avicii new pro- duction @coachella OMG ! (Pete Tong) Thursday, April 12
@Maverick_AC The main stage at Download this year is going to be named The Jim Marshall stage as a tribute to the great wall of speakers & amps man!
(Andy Copping, Download Festival) Thursday, April 12
@catmacdonald Oh no, apparently it's just started raining in at #Coachella! You're not going to have wellies packed for LA are you? (Cat Macdonald, Absolute Radio)
Friday, April 13
@KIKITkiran
pic.twitter.com/RkRrBvpB (Kiran Sharma, KIKIT Entertainment) Friday, April 13
@sarah_hall Don’t you just hate that moment on the tube when you realise you’ve made the split second fatal decision of sitting next to a lunatic
(Sarah Hall, Sony Music) Friday, April 13
@cdickens Enjoying @DaveGorman on @AdamHillsComedy TV show on @abc2 in Australia explaining the impact on his marriage of his ‘numb penis syndrome!’
(Clive Dickens, Absolute Radio) Saturday, April 14
@DavidEmery The recipe said two eggs plus most of their shells, right? #crackingeggsisnotmyforte
(David Emery, Beggars Group) Sunday, April 15
@LiamAWalsh Having a relaxing bath and the fire alarm goes off in our build- ing! I’m staying put.
(Liam Walsh, Ask Me PR) Sunday, April 15
@Example This arena set is gonna kill me. Clocking in at around 1hour 40mins. And no I won’t be leaving the
stage for a “costume change” (Example) Sunday, April 15
@MattAATWAll Man U games should start with a penalty to Utd - gets rid of the “wonder when it’ll happen” factor
(Matt Cadman, AATW) Sunday, April 15
@jamesjammcmahon This new @anathemamusic record is truly a thing of wonder. Brilliant songs...
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Act. With regard to Ian Softley for once I also agree. It was only those raunchy videos that made Adele and Susan Boyle sell all those albums. Cold shower anyone?”
bless: “Ah bless, the music industry should get its own house in order and stop whingeing about other industries having to take their corpo- rate responsibility more seriously. Implementing the
Digital Economy Act will solve the problem, if we discon- nect an entire generation from the internet they can’t watch those porn music videos online. Sorted.”
MUSIC WEEK POLL
This week we asked... Is big business threatening the electronic dance music scene?
YES 9% NO 91%
MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP WEEK 15
SINGLES Universal 44.8% Sony 19.5% EMI 17.6% Warner 14.4% Others 3.7%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 40.5% Sony 18.5% EMI 13.6% Warner 9.6% Others 17.8%
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Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino admits she’s “a real bitch” when she’s angry, on the front of The Flythis month and, inside, explains the emotional ride of the duo’s second album. Graham Coxon’s new album A+E, on the other hand, was inspired by the echoey acoustics of gigs under rail- way arches and kids that looked ‘half-mod and half robot’ being sick and passing out. The Blur guitarist reflects on his own boozing back in the day and how a lot of his album reflects on ‘Binge Britain’. Everything Everything are back in the studio where Jonathan Higgs talks about the “bigger, better and more singable” follow-up to Man Alive and Marina Diamandis talks about her belief in aliens, reincarnation and - according to her – her fat legs. JJ Dunning gives Jack White’s Blunderbuss three and a half stars at the front of The Fly’s review section, saying that the album’s weaknesses are ultimately diminished by “moments of sheer greatness”. Meanwhile, Coxon’s aforementioned A+E is half a star short of a full galaxy. An album full of “krautrock thrums” and “yelps of disenchant- ment”, says Lisa Wright.
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