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THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
887m
Dollars in revenue - Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s aim for 2012
18
Months of prison-time given to Leonard Cohen’s former manager for harassment
158
Days until the Live Music Act comes into play on October 1
FEEDBACK
Simon Cowell supports EMI buyouts – but warns labels not to stand still John Campbell: “How wrong Simon is. The car- tel that has become the music business is strangling the creativity that indies nurture and just provides a platform for safe banal muzak as is evidenced by listening to current radio. They want an accountants foolproofed pre-programmed market where- by they treat the public as lemmings all dancing after their predictable rap sheet. Keep EMI independent – or close it. Why don’t the rich artists that have made the label form a co-operative and rescue it..?
PIRATES’ BAY
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY
MUSO.com OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON APRIL 23 76
Adele 21
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Jason Mraz Love Is A
Lana Del Rey Born To Die Jessie J Who You Are
Emeli Sande Our Version Of Events David Guetta Nothing But...
Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls Ed Sheeran +
2
Months since Capital FM played a One Direction
(pictured) track following that Brit awards gaffe
Train California 37 0 Source:
Muso.com LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@theeviluncle Does anyone know if Tempa T is actually running for London Mayor? Cos I would definitely vote for him. #VOTETEMPAT (Austen
Cruickshank, Visible Noise) Monday, April 16
@DJTrevorNelson I must love biscuits to leave the studio in the middle of my show and run to the shop just to dunk with my tea .much love to fruit short-
47m Pounds added to
P Diddy’s (above) estimated personal net worth since last year
9 Members in newly amalgamated boy band
NKOTBSB (New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys)
cake (Trevor Nelson) Tuesday, April 17
@sarah_hall Patti Smith has announced a UK tour in September. They will be THE hottest tickets around!
(Sarah Hall, Sony Music) Tuesday, April 17
@bellaunionWhile US nightly chat shows clearly outnumber ours, the music bookers on the US shows are at least tuned in to music that’s current.
(Bella Union) Tuesday, April 17 April 19
@lukeywilliams I’m gonna say it. Justin Bieber - ‘Boyfriend’ is my TUNE!! #swag (Luke Williams, Insomnia
Management) Thursday, April 19
@cowboystyle that awkward moment at work where you’re looking for ana- lytics, have an autocomplete fail, and end up googling ‘anal’ in front of
everyone. (David James Lennon, Universal Music Group) Thursday, April 19
@Palomafaith those dudes that stand in covent grdn painted gold,just standing still.I wonder what they are thinking of? Are they meditating or
depressed? (Palomafaith) Thursday, April 19
@ARRJAYKAY Job rejection for the role I spent £150 on train fare to interview for. Ball Sack. (RJ Keeling, Fink Music) Thursday,
@Eve_Barlow But I have it all on my iPod. #vinyl #recordstoreday (Eve Barlow, Q) Friday, April 20
@MBCFred Venues need to use a lighter hand stamp. IF I WANTED A TATTOO ON THE BACK OF MY HAND I WOULD GET ONE.
(Freddie Mellor, MBC PR) Friday, April 20
@iAm_Ryan Courts have ordered Youtube 2 prevent users from uploading copyrighted videos & make a back payments of royalties... folks
abt 2get PAID! Lol (Ryan Jermaine Bruce, Sony Music) Friday, April 20)
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@MichaelCragg In Taiwan, Ed Sheeran is known as ‘Ed Red Head’. (Michael Cragg, Freelance) Thursday, April 19
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Trevor Rotten: “Could be that Mr Cowell has contributed to the falling sales of music. If you’re a kid growing up in the last decade or so, you might be forgiven for thinking that his ‘talent’ shows represent the best of what music has to offer, yet somehow the non-think- ing great British public have been brainwashed into
thinking he is the voice of music. If Simon gives it the thumbs up, the soppy crowds roar their approval and love him all the more. Scary. One day soon the public will come to their senses and see that he’s not about the music. Till then, God is in the house...”
MUSIC WEEK POLL
This week we asked... Would you pay to see a posthumous artist hologram in concert?
YES 18% NO 82%
MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP WEEK 16
SINGLES Universal 38.3% Warner 22.1% Sony 20.4% EMI 17.6% Others 1.6%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 36.9% Sony 20.8% Warner 13.2% EMI 11.8% Others 17.3%
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INK SPOTS
Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you.
Slash says if he doesn’t keep busy then bad things happen on the cover of this month’s Classic Rock and, inside, reflects on the perils of fame, admitting he hates doing the “fucking red-carpet thing”. The Cult’s new album Choice Of
Weapon has also gone all self- reflective. Described as an “intimate autobiographical record”, it includes a track written by frontman Ian Astbury about self harm. Aerosmith claim the cama-
raderie has returned as they go back to their roots for the bands long-delayed 14th album which “has a feel of some of the early stuff” and blues songstress Grainne Duffy talks about how she’s reluc- tant to play the young-attractive- female card and says her vintage music taste didn’t win her any popu- larity contests at school. Essi Berelian gives Savage Sons
Of Malice seven stars on the reviews page saying that the rather meat ‘n’ potatoes lyrics are set aside by a “swaggering bullish dis- play” of memorable riffing. Meanwhile, according to Mark Beaumont, Garbage have returned after a seven-year hiatus still “hot on the heels of the future” with Not Your Kind Of People.
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