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The compilation strikes back C
ANALYSIS COMPILATIONS
ompilations staged an impressive comeback in Q1 as they contradicted the double-digit drop in artist album sales to record a first
year-on-year rise in five years. While the artist albums sector suffered a
17.1% slide compared to the first three months of 2011, the various artists market turned around years of sharp declines by increasing its sales by 0.4% to 3,941,207 units, according to the Official Charts Company. A 0.4% rise might not sound much, but it is very
significant in that it represents the first Q1 rise since 2007 when sales increased 10.1% to around 6.6 million units. Given the sector during the first quarter of this
year was below 4 million units, compilations clearly have a long road to recovery ahead. However, there are some real positive signs in a part of the business some thought was in terminal decline because consumers could now create their own custom-built various artist packages by buying tracks one at a time on download sites. “I don’t think there were a lot of surprises in the
quarter but one was the compilations market really stabilising,” says Universal commercial division managing director Brian Rose. “We say that touch wood because it’s only in the first quarter.” The year-on-year rise happened despite no new
regular Now! album being issued in the quarter, although EMI and Universal did roll out the one- off Now That’s What I Call Running, which sold more than 80,000 copies, and Now compiler Ashley Abram of Box Music was behind what turned out to be in Be My Baby the period’s biggest-selling compilation. Released by Sony, the three-disc collection of
tracks by Sixties female singers and groups sold 193,169 up to the end of March. This was 29.0% more than Now! 77 sold a year earlier to finish as Q1 2011’s top compilation, while Now! 77 was also outsold a year later by Now! 80, which shifted another 174,623 copies in the quarter, having been released last November. Sony is already weighing up a successor to Be
My Baby, mirroring a trend in the market which EMI catalogue and commercial marketing senior vice president Steve Pritchard says is subject to fewer releases. “People have got a little bit more savvy
so we stick with tried and tested brands,” says Pritchard, reflected by his company’s leading Now! brand enjoying not only continuing strong sales in the quarter from its most-recent regular album in the series but also with the Now! Running album and love and Disney-themed Now! packages. Similarly, in a joint release with EMI, Universal
returned to its late Fifties/early Sixties Dreamboats & Petticoats brand with one subtitled The Petticoat, while among Ministry of Sound’s many successful Q1 sellers was the 2012 edition of its successful Addicted To Bass series.
Q1 2012 BREAKDOWN ARTIST ALBUMS/COMPILATIONS
Q1 2011 BREAKDOWN ARTIST ALBUMS/COMPILATIONS
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Artist 82.3% Various 17.7%
Artist 84.9% Various 15.1%
One particular encouraging trend of the quarter
for various artist albums was the healthy pick-up in digital sales. Compilations have been behind the curve in digital growth compared to artist albums, but in Q1 download’s share of sales rose from 15.3% in the first three months of 2011 to 24.7% a year later. This added up to another 370,601 compilations sold in this way, helped no doubt by more various artist releases being flagged up on iTunes’ home page than were previously.
TOP 20 COMPILATIONS Q1 2012 POS
TITLE /SALES Q1 01 BE MY BABY 193,169
02 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 80 174,623 03 XX - TWENTY YEARS 85,371 04 R&B SLOWJAMZ 81,891
05 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL RUNNING 81,693 06 BRIT AWARDS 2012 WITH MASTERCARD 71,750
Sony CMG marketing director Phil Savill
suggests this increase also reflects the widening profile of people now downloading. He says: “iTunes initially was probably more of a
musos destination where people bought artist albums rather than late adopters who tend to buy compilations and as iTunes and the iPod have become more widespread it’s ended up with the iTunes Top 100 mirroring more of a supermarket chart with artist albums and compilations.”
LABEL/ RECORD COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / (DISTRIBUTOR) SONY MUSIC/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
EMI TV/UMTV/EMI TV/UMTV/EMI MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (E)
MINISTRY OF SOUND/MINISTRY OF SOUND/MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP (ARV) UMTV/RHINO/ RHINO (WARNERS)1/UMTV4/UNIVERSAL4/WARNER1 (ARV) EMI TV/UMTV / EMI TV/UMTV / EMI MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (EMI) UMTV/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
07 DREAMBOATS & PETTICOATS - THE PETTICOAT 69,530 EMI TV/UMTV/EMI TV3/UMTV1/EMI MUSIC3/UNIVERSAL MUSIC17 (ARV) 08 THE WORKOUT MIX 2012 64,953 09 ANTHEMS - HIP HOP 2 64,612 10 ADDICTED TO BASS 2012 62,522 11 RUNNING TRAX GOLD62,271 12 KEEP CALM AND RELAX 53,993 13 ONE R&B43,174
AATW/UMTV/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
MINISTRY OF SOUND/SONY MUSIC/MOS/RCA LABEL GROUP/MINISTRY OF SOUND/SONY MUSIC (ARV) MINISTRY OF SOUN/MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP (ARV) MINISTRY OF SOUND/MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP (ARV)
14 JUNGLE CLASSICS 39,628
15 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LOVE 36,388 16 LOVE 2 CLUB 2012 35,878
17 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL DISNEY 35,175 18 HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU 29,602 19 FLOORFILLERS OLD SKOOL 28,579 20 ULTIMATE CLUBLAND27,071
RHINO/SONY MUSIC/RCA LABEL3/RHINO (WARNERS)1/SONY MUSIC3/WARNER MUSIC1 (ARV) MINISTRY OF SOUND/SONY MUSIC/MOS/RCA LABEL GROUP/MINISTRY OF SOUND (ARV) MINISTRY OF SOUND/MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP (ARV)
EMIVIRGIN/UMTV/EMI TV/UMTV/EMI MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (EMI) UMTV/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) WALT DISNEY/EMI TV/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
GO ENTERTAIN/GO ENTERTAIN/GO ENTERTAIN(GOTO ENTERTAIN) AATW/UMTV/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) AATW/UMTV/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV)
HIGHEST CHART POS.
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CUMULATIVE SALES 193,169
1,307,989 264,777 81,891 81,693 71,750 69,530 72,501 64,612 62,522 71,051 53,993 43,174 49,957 36,388 35,878
243,339 29,602
108,782 27,071
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