6 MusicWeek 18.05.12 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
UNIVERSAL: The major label’s parent Vivendi has announced that UMG’s Q1 revenues stood at €961 million, an increase of 9.1% year-on- year. Meanwhile, the label has formed a new Electronic Dance Music (EDM) label, PM:AM Recordings. BPI: Sales of British music abroad reached £1.9 billion in retail value in 2011, with British artists accounting for almost 13% of global sales of recorded music, figures from the BPI have revealed. The trade body’s Yearbook is out this week and available for purchase. AMAZING: The radio station is no longer available via DAB following a dispute with Digital One. It will still be available through browsers. UMF: The Ultra Music Festival (UMF) has announced launch of a two-day event to take place on July 13 – 14 in Warsaw, Poland. SPOTIFY: The streaming platform has launched two new apps, Tastebuds and Fellody, which aim to match users with potential romantic partners based on music taste. SHAZAM: The UK’s first Shazam- enabled adverts ran in the Britain’s Got Talent final on Saturday May 12, featuring Pepsi MAX and Cadbury.
TV STATION SNAGS RADIO 2 HOST FOR NEW SERIES WITH EYE ON CATALOGUE
Vintage TV plays the Long game with classic albums
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anice Long has joined Vintage TV to host a weekly programme - as the
music channel looks to reach out to labels to help to boost their back catalogue sales. The Janice Long Review Show
will begin transmitting at 8.30pm every Sunday from June 24. Vintage consistently attracts
an audience of more than 1 million people every week for its diet of pop oldies from across the 20th century, according to its founder and CEO David Pick. But, despite the popularity of
the channel - which Pick said was the most popular music TV service on FreeSat and one of the highest rated on Sky (it is not currently available on Virgin Media) - it remains largely a secret to the music industry. “There’s no dialogue with the
industry up to now, but there ought to be,” said Pick. “It’s not why we’re doing it, but it makes
an awful lot of sense.” Radio 2 presenter Long’s
programme is one possible route in for labels. Her show will include in each episode a journalist and music/industry guests with the three programmes already recorded having featured journalists and broadcasters Pete Paphides and Paul Sexton, plus Ian McNabb, Holly Johnson, Katie Melua, Jack Bruce, Lol Crème and Stiff Records co- founder Dave Robinson. “What we’re doing is having a
conversation which is light- hearted, but hopefully informed
about classic albums. The ones we’ve done so far are Bob Dylan’s Bring It All Back Home, The Cure’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ocean Rain, Tapestry by Carole King and Bob Marley’s Legend,” said Pick. He noted the programme,
which is recorded at the 12 Bar Club in London’s Denmark Street, had two areas of interest: its discussion about classic albums and what musical guests were up to now. While labels have yet to utilise the channel, Vintage is now
Vintage performance: Paul Sexton, Janice Long, Katie Melua and Dave Robinson
collaborating with Jazz FM, while Pick was optimistic the channel would be made available to Virgin Media customers in the near future, so significantly increasing its potential audience. One example of the industry
successfully working with Vintage was with the annual Rewind Festival, which features acts from the Eighties. When the line-up for this year was announced in January the station put out programming that evening featuring acts participating, helping to generate interest in the event. Vintage will also be
promoting and filming a concert taking place in September to support the PRS For Music Members Benevolent Fund. Pick noted the channel was
now making more than 10 hours of new programming every month and revealed it had just closed a second round of funding to enable it to expand internationally and engage with new media.
MOBO winner Brown backs Pop4Schools
GLOBAL: Global Radio’s Classic FM has announced a partnership deal with P&O Cruises, which will commence later this month. SOUNDCLOUD: The popular ‘social sound platform’ has launched its redesign in private beta. ALAN MCGEE: The former Creation and Poptones boss has revealed he is set to enter talks with Japan-based investors over a potential return to the world of A&R. HMV: The entertainment retailer has entered into a partnership with Ticketmaster to operate its own ticketing arm, hmvtickets. JAY-Z: The hip-hop star has launched his own two-day festival in the US with Budweiser.
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Prince’s Trust ambassador and double MOBO award-winner YolanDa Brown has been appointed an ambassador for the Pop4Schools education programme. Brown will visit schools
throughout the UK to deliver a variety of music workshops in line with the Government’s National Plan for Music Education and the recent Ofsted
music report Music in Schools: Wider still, and Wider. Brown will also help to train music specialist and non-specialist teachers using the Pop4Schools teaching resources. Teaching staff in more than
60 primary and secondary schools throughout the UK are using Pop4Schools in the classroom to teach 2,000 school children and young people a
range of subjects set out in the national curriculum, including maths, English, ICT and geography. The Pop4Schools music education initiative is supported by the Tesco School Voucher Scheme and specialist education resellers, The Consortium and Digital Village. Launched in 2011 by music
industry professional Ruth Katz, Pop4Schools brings the concept
of a record company into the classroom. Pupils participating in the programme produce and promote an original piece of music, which they can then sell to raise money for their school or a charitable cause. As part of their collaboration,
children learn there are many occupations in the music business they can aspire to undertake in the future.
‘English’ music production library launched
Norfolk Publishing has launched a new music production library, Musica Britannica Ltd. The publisher’s aim is to
create music with an ‘essentially English character’ recorded using live instruments, and the library will be made available
throughout the world via Bucks Music Group. Directors of the new company
include Patrick Hawes – a prolific composer of library music – and film-maker and composer James Kenelm Clarke. “There are lots of strands of music throughout the world, but
there is a particularly quality from English music we think is unique,” chairman Roger Rowe MBE told Music Week. “It will be that aspect of it that we will try to promote. “It’s the year of the Olympics,
so there’s not only a lot of emphasis on sport but also
[British] culture. Along with the Queen’s Jubilee year and the heritage attached to that, it’s a great time to do this.” Rowe said the company
would solely concentrate on classical music. A launch night is planned in London this Thursday (May 17).
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