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THE MAGIC NUMBERS


Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with


these head-spinning facts and figures...


MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP WEEK 17


SINGLES Universal 40.1% Sony 23.7% Warner 21.1% EMI 13.9% Others 1.2%


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Thousand copies sold of John Legend’s


(pictured above) Ordinary People following


its airing on The Voice £190m Places Spotify founder


Daniel Ek in 10th position on The Sunday Times


Rich List Music Millionaires Top 50


18 Countries that hold


churches for the file-sharing ‘Church of Kopimism’


7


Out of the Top 10 vinyl albums last week were Record Store Exclusives


2 Decades since the


Beach Boys released their last original material


48th Place in the Heatseekers


chart for US One Direction album, The Light


Source: Muso.com LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...


@EleanorOfficial #MusicWeekAwards and Producer battles tonight! I hope @Excalibah smokes that dude he’s up against. You can take him Matt


(Eleanor Peters-Savva, Soho Recording Studios) Thursday, April 26


@laurenlaverne Am the third person to arrive at the Music Week Awards. Might go and hide in the loos for a bit. (Lauren Laverne) Thursday, April 26


@tomdarkMost excellent discussion


of Flo Rida’s latest hit song on stage at the #MusicWeekAwards to begin pro- ceedings. Amazing.


(Tom Dark, Warner Brothers) Thursday, April 26


@WhisperingBob Fantastic RT @MusicWeekNews: Independent Record Company... Bella Union! #musicweekawards


(Bob Harris) Thursday, April 26


@bellaunion@XLRECORDINGS con- grats for this evening’s fine collection of awards. Greatly deserved. (bella union) Friday, April 27


@Tim_BurgessMassivo congratula- tions to @BBC6Music, @BellaUnion, BBClamacqshow & @_sounditout Records #musicweekawards Well


done y’all x (Tim Burgess) Thursday, April 26


@sharonlhanley@bbc6music does the double!! Station of the Year and Steve Lamacq wins Radio Show!! Whoop! #musicweekawards


(Sharon Hanley, BBC Radio) Thursday, April 26


@LaraKBakerWow, tonight’s winners have included XL, Adele, Bella Union, PIAS, Proper... So proud of independ- ent music. #musicweekawards


(Lara Baker, AIM Marketing & Events Manager) Thursday, April 26


@gary_lancaster I definitely danced with @spencerhickman tonight. Not sure what tune mind. Wouldn’t play Blue Monday. Dicks.


(Gary Lancaster, Label marketing manager for ADA) Friday, April 27


@laurenlaverne I am home now. Tonight may or may not have been a brilliant idea. My shoes hurt ad i need toast. (Lauren Laverne) Friday, April 27


@SelinaUmusic No swag but nice atmosphere tonight. What happened to the bread rolls? #MusicWeekAwards


(Selina Webb, Universal) Friday, April 27


@spencerhickman The @MusicWeekNews awards were really good last night. They had a host that was actually funny and the food


wasn’t dry fish... (Spencer Hickman, manager of Rough Trade East) Friday, April 27, 12


Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews PIRATES’ BAY


NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY MUSO.com OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON MAY 1 12


Jack White Blunderbuss


Lana Del Rey Born To Die Adele 21


Nicki Minaj Pink Friday


Rufus Wainwright Out Of The Game Alabama Shakes Boy & Girls


Olly Murs In Case You Didn’t Know Emeli Sande Our Version Of Events


Jessie J Who You Are 243 David Guetta Nothing But... 0 300 600 900 1,200 73 9 0 756


1,965 1,500


6 407 608 MUSIC WEEK POLL


This week we asked... Do you agree with George Martin’s assessment of the break-up of EMI?


YES 77% NO 23%


 Adele pays tribute to ‘amazing’ manager Dickins (pictured) at Music Week Awards Mark Henwood: “Having worked as one half of a co-management team in the past, it is so heart- warming and pleasing to hear man- agement praised so openly. I would honestly say it’s the hardest job in the industry, bar none. Maria Kay: “I am so delighted to read the appre- ciation for those who help Adele share her great talent


with us all. I have known Rose Moon all her life, and I can say she has always been a niece to be proud of, thanks to both, Adele and Jonathan Dickins for recognising her for the professional she is.”  Still no Capital and Heart airplay for One Direction following Brits gaffe


Donna Fields: “Very petty decision from Capital but the fact that Global Management represent The Wanted may be the real reason they won’t play


them. Very strange they wont get behind a huge British group though that are doing so well around the globe.”


ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 37.7% Sony 16.7% EMI 12.2% Warner 9.7% Others 23.7%


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Plan B has a few things to say and insists you listen on the front of this month’s Qmaga- zine. He voices his views on inner-city blues, David Cameron, univer- sal enlighten- ment, sex, drugs and, erm, Ray Winstone. Rumer - promoting new album


Boys Don’t Cry - isn’t soft either; the result of a period of ‘insanity’. The music is dark on a ‘commercially obtuse second album’ comprising of covers of mostly obscure songs writ- ten by men in the Seventies. She says: “There was a bit of, ‘What? An album of cover versions nobody’s heard of? Great!’ But they got it.” A countdown of the 50 greatest


items of band merchandising include hip-hop artist Nelly’s Pimp Juice while Pharrell Williams caters for the ladies with his peach and strawberry-flavoured Qream Liquer, that provides “an elegant experi- ence for the modern day queen and her court of friends”. Tom Doyle gives Gossip’s A Joyful


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Noise three stars out of five saying that the band’s rocktastic bite is lost for Xenomania producer Brian Higgins’ trademark electro beats, while according to Dan Stubbs, The Cribs candy-sweet melodies coated in three chords of searing sonic scuzz have been reinvigorated for their new album.


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