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PUBLISHING LANDSCAPE
just one songwriter. For a start it had in Coldplay arguably the world’s biggest band and whose fifth studio set Mylo Xyloto, almost entirely written by the group, finished as the sixth top seller in the UK of 2011. It also handled 44% of Olly Murs’ In Case You Didn’t Know and nearly two-thirds of fellow Universal signings’ Chase & Status’s No More Idols, the 15th and 20th biggest albums of the year, plus around one-third of Rihanna’s Talk That Talk in 13th spot. Finishing runner-up on albums for a second
successive year, EMI saw its own market share rise from 17.2% to 17.5% with highlights including stakes in Rihanna albums Loud and Talk That Talk, around 29% of 2011’s third top seller Doo-Wops & Hooligans by Bruno Mars and 60% of Amy Winehouse’s posthumous Lioness Hidden Treasures, which ranked 14th for 2011 and included contributions from the artist and fellow EMI writer Salaam Remi. EMI also gained some further mileage through
its signings Howard Donald and Jason Orange from Take That’s Progress, 2010’s top seller, which returned the following year in 18th place, and had lesser stakes in albums by acts including Cee Lo Green and One Direction. Universal was not the only publisher posting a
record annual albums score last year as Sony/ATV finished narrowly behind EMI in third position with a 17.4% share that included leading UK breakthroughs Jessie J and Ed Sheeran. Their debuts Who You Are and + were respectively the 10th and 11th top sellers of 2011, while more than three-quarters of fellow Sony/ATV signing Lady Gaga’s second set Born This Way was under the company’s control. And it also boosted the only release among 2011’s Top 20 sellers to be written entirely by one individual, Noel Gallagher’s hugely-
TOP 10 ALBUMS 2011 POS ARTIST / TITLE / PUBLISHER
1 ADELE 21 Universal 54.6%, BMG Chrysalis 15.5%, EMI 13.6%, Kobalt 11.8%, Sony/ATV 4.6% 2 MICHAEL BUBLE Christmas Warner/Chappell 26.0%, Peermusic 16.7%, EMI 14.0%, Carlin 12.9%, Universal 6.7%, MPL 6.7%, Sony/ATV 3.3%, others 13.7%
3 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans BMG Chrysalis/Bug 45.1%, EMI 28.8%, Warner/Chappell 8.4%, Sony/ATV 7.3%, Universal 4.0%, others 6.4%
4 ADELE 19 Universal 87.5%, Sony/ATV 8.3%, EMI 2.1%, Kobalt 2.1% 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS Now! 80 Sony/ATV 29.0%, EMI 24.2%, Universal 12.8%, Warner/Chappell 10.2%, BMG Chrysalis 7.2%, Kobalt 6.9%, others 9.7%
6 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Universal 94.1%, Bucks 4.1%, others 1.8% 7 RIHANNA Loud EMI 33.0%, Universal 20.7%, Peermusic 13.5%, Warner/Chappell 9.1%, Sony/ATV 4.7%, Notting Hill 3.1%, others 15.9%
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Now! 79 EMI 27.8%, Universal 15.2%, Sony/ATV 14.4%, BMG Chrysalis 8.9%, Warner/Chappell 7.3%, Kobalt 7.1%, Bucks 2.7%, Peermusic 2.5%, others 14.1%
9 LADY GAGA Born This Way Sony/ATV 77.3%, Warner/Chappell 11.3%, Universal 8.5%, others 2.9%
10 JESSIE J Who You Are Sony/ATV 55.0%, Universal 12.4%, BMG Chrysalis 9.0%, Kobalt 8.0%, Warner/Chappell 6.4%, others 9.2%
successful High Flying Birds album. Sony/ATV’s rapid growth in market
share, having controlled less than 10% of the chart albums market in six out of seven years between 2001 and 2007, is also reflected by the company having the largest individual share of the Q4-issued Now! 80 compilation. More typically EMI has the biggest stake of albums in the series, but its 24.3% share of this album compared to 29.0% for Sony. The rise from 16.2% in 2010 of Sony’s annual
albums market share meant that between them the company and its consortium-led takeover target EMI controlled nearly 35% of the chart albums market in
2011.This was around 6.1 points more than the market leader Universal whose own albums share has risen significantly since it bought BMG Music Publishing in 2006. A combined EMI/Sony Music Publishing would also have led singles last year with a 37.6% share, more than
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double that of Universal, although none of these calculations take into account any assets being disposed. In contrast to Universal and Sony/ATV’s
record runs, Warner/Chappell controlled less than 10% of the chart albums market for the first time this century last year. It share slipped year-on-year from 11.4% to 8.9%, although this came with a few highlights, including claiming
ABOVE Higher and higher: Lady Gaga helped Sony/ATV to their best-yet performance – which can only gain momentum when the deal with EMI is concluded
more than a quarter of 2011’s second top seller Christmas by its signing Michael Buble and lesser shares of albums by the likes of Olly Murs and Lady Gaga. Warner/Chappell was also the only major
player not to have any interest in either of Adele’s albums whose presence across 2011 shaped music publishing just as it had shaped most other industry sectors. And Universal will be pleased to know its star
signing’s incredible story is continuing well into 2012, clocking it up yet more market share.
INDEPENDENT FOCUS ANNUAL PUBLISHER BATTLE DECIDED BY MOVES LIKE KOBALT’S
FIFTY YEARS TO THE MONTH since The Rolling Stones formed, a song inspired by their frontman has led Kobalt to become top independent publisher yet again. Moves Like Jagger sold more
than 1 million copies in the UK last year to sit at No.2 behind Adele’s Someone Like You on the quarter- end chart and three of its four writers are signed to Kobalt, giving it three-quarters control of the song. It was Kobalt’s biggest hit single
of 2011 and played an important role in the company claiming an unrivalled 22.4% share across the year’s independent singles and albums markets. Another very vital factor in this
victory, though, was timing because sat just behind Kobalt in second place is BMG Chrysalis whose 20.1% combined share includes hits from Bug, a company it purchased in 2011. However, BMG Chrysalis can only lay claim to
TOP 10 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS 2011 POS COMPANY / MARKET SHARE
1 KOBALT
2 BMG RIGHTS 3 BUG
4 BUCKS 5 PEERMUSIC
6 GLOBAL TALENT 7 IMAGEM 8 CHESTER
9 PRESENT TIME 10 CARLIN
22.4% 20.1% 8.0% 7.2% 7.0% 6.9% 4.2% 2.7% 2.3% 1.4%
Bug’s share for the last three months of the year by which time the takeover deal had gone through. It means for the first nine months of the year Bug is listed separately with its 8.0% market share over this period good enough for third place. Had Kobalt been Bug’s owner across the whole of
2011, its annual market share would have been 28.1%, significantly more than Kobalt’s. Kobalt was far stronger in the
year on albums and BMG Chrysalis on singles with Kobalt’s singles highlights also including more than one-third of the Jessie J-fronted Price Tag, the year’s fourth top
Moves like Aguilera: The Maroon 5 collaboration was good news for Kobalt
seller, through Dr Luke and 50% of Aloe Blacc’s I Need A Dollar. Both Kobalt and BMG Chrysalis claimed a third share each of One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful, while the latter’s other singles highlights took in Dan Wilson’s 40% contribution to Someone Like You and various Bruno Mars hits once Bug had come under its control. Between them the two
independents controlled 27% of Adele’s 21 album with Kobalt represented by Ryan Tedder and Greg Wells and BMG Chrysalis by Wilson and Fraser T Smith who has since moved to Sony/ATV. BMG also controlled nearly three-fifths of Cee Lo Green’s The Lady Killer, the year’s 16th top seller. Bucks was the year’s fourth
biggest independent with a 7.2% share that included 16% of Ed Sheeran’s + album and 55% of Pitbull’s chart-topping single Give
Me Everything through its writer Afrojack, while Peermusic’s 7.0% fifth position included a one-sixth share of Michael Bublé’s Christmas and 13.5% of Rihanna’s Loud. In his last year as its managing
director Miller Williams helped take Global to sixth position with a 6.9% indie share that included exclusive control of LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem, the year’s third top seller. Below it in seventh Imagem’s 4.2% share took in nearly one-fifth of Olly Murs’ In Case You Didn’t Know. Chester’s eighth place is down
to Paul Mealor’s Wherever You Are for the Military Wives whose single had sold 630,000 copies by the end of the year, while another batch of David Guetta hits saw Present Time occupy ninth position and Carlin finished 10th as the company’s rich back catalogue was represented on Michael Bublé’s festive album.
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