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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 19
SINGLES Universal 48.2% Sony 23.3% Warner 14.2% EMI 12.4% Others 1.9%
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Village People singer wins in historic US copyright case Rick Styles: “Well Done Victor Willis, it has been a long wait for you. Why should others own your creative works? I look forward to seeing your music revived.” Tom Hoppel: “Excellent Victor! Congrats!!”
George Michael accuses ‘f*cking sick’ tabloids... Jae Robinson: “I despise the way you have been treated and the intrusion into your private life.. We are ‘souls’ housed in bodies we feel, we hurt but most important of all we love. It is not a choice who we love it just happens.
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UK Music: Dipple hires award-winning Parliamentarian Thursday, May 10 Sony Music posts full-year operating profit Thursday, May 10 Universal launches new dance label Wednesday, May 9 Seymour Stein: Great Escape ‘one of best shows on the planet’ Friday, May 11 Sony seeking to acquire HMV Live Wednesday, May 9
I told my son this aged 10 and all I could want for him as a parent is that he finds a wonderful person who also loves him Man/woman didn't matter to me because he would always be my son. I hope that the parasites who insist on making up stories that violate your human rights as a human being open their eyes to everyone's right to do as they chose (unless hurts someone) and learn some respect and dignity. PS I found the video clips on the Gay kids camps as horrific it's like the return of Auschwitz. What the hell are the parents thinking of? Don't they love their children?”
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ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 44.2% Sony 17.8% EMI 15.3% Warner 11.7% Others 11.0%
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In this month’s Uncut, Paul McCartney tells all about the most tur- bulent part of his career, post-Beatles 1971, when he was ready to ‘lose the plot’. Macca turned his turmoil into songs and headed up to the Scottish wilder- ness to plot solo album Ram, re- issued this month. Kevin Rowland reminisces his
days as leader of Dexys Midnight Runners and promises the band’s upcoming comeback album is no longer about the drama, and has instead put his heart and soul into the music for their first record since 1999’s One Day I’m To Sour. There is also the story behind
garage compilation Nuggets, an album of records found when Lenny Kaye was criss-crossing America in the late Sixties, while the inspiration behind The Adverts’ one and only hit Gary Gilmore’s Eyes, was a tabloid story reporting that the American murderer asked for his retina to be donated anonymously after his execution. In reviews, Louis Patterson reck-
ons the new Public Image Limited release, This Is PiL, is worth a 7/10 - a compelling listen which finds John Lydon with plenty still to grouse about in 2012. Willie Nelson’s Heroes gets 9/10.
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
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Minutes for Justin Bieber’s new music video to break VEVO’s views in a day record
£13.93m Live Nation paid to Ingenious Media Active
Capital Ltd for their share in Cream Holdings
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Acts will be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame this year, including Aretha Franklin
LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@professorgreen Grrrrr thanks to a typo the times review of my gig was a 3/5! It was meant to be a 4/5! It reads well at least :)
(Professor Green) Tuesday, May 8
@iAm_RyanJ Drugs, girls, and “swag” does not make you a boss... Diplomas, degrees, and jobs do! (Ryan Jermaine Bruce, Sony Music)
Tuesday, May 8
@joeparry I had a letter printed in the current issue of Kerrang! about homo- phobia in metal. I have since appoint- ed myself an expert on the subject.
(Joe Parry, 9PR Press) Tuesday, May 8
@dancairns123 In the annals of dese- cration, does anything come within touching distance of the witless, pon- derous #Coldplay “tribute” to #beast-
ieboys? (Dan Cairns, The Sunday Times) Tuesday, May 8
@owen_drew I reckon the @Music- WeekNews team are psychic. Only just talking about the role of pluggers & wham they provide the
info.Thanks!
(Owen Drew, HDP Group) Friday, May 11
@RozzerMLuckily, when I drink I tend to get so plastered I can't see my phone/work my fingers, so I'm not in danger of "Doing A Huey" any time
soon. (Roz Mansfield, Atlantic Records, Tuesday May 15)
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@forgetcape@MusicWeekNews A streaming chart eh? Awesome. Maybe the No.1 artist can buy a twix with their royalties or form a brand
partnership. (Sam Duckworth, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly) Thursday, May 10
@OCRadio This afternoon I saw a hobo with a To Do List. No lie. (Christian O’Connell, OC Radio) Thursday, May 10
@davidwalliams For the record Simon Cowell has an amazing sense of humour and loves being teased. (David Walliams) Wednesday, May 9
@Eamonn_Forde Reading new Simon Cowell book. In the 1980s, he got an Italian orchestra track synced on an episode of Crossroads set in Venice.
(Eamonn Forde, Popfessions) Friday, May 11
@themike_p How do you get a cork back into a champagne bottle? Ask a man united fan (Mike Pickering, Sony, Monday May 14)
@bellaunion@hueymorgan amidst all this hullabulloo spare a thought for Amazing Radio, today we wake up without DAB, and we had NO Sony
nominations. (Bella Union, Tuesday May 15) 2013
Year when 35-year-old US copyright grants to publishers and record labels can be terminated
10x More copies sold of Cliff Richard’s Millennium
Prayer than Prince’s When Doves Cry (one of NME’s
Massively Depressing Facts About Music)
£287m Sony Music division’s oper-
ating profit for the year end- ing in March
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