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TOP 20 COMBINED CLASSICAL ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 SIXTEEN/CHRISTOPHERS RENAISSANCE - MUSIC FOR INNER PEACE DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 02 ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS OR AND THE WALTZ GOES ON DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 03 LUDOVICO EINAUDI ISLANDS - ESSENTIAL DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV)
04 ANDREA BOCELLI CONCERTO - ONE NIGHT IN CENTRAL PARK DECCA/SUGAR/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV) 05 ANDRE RIEU WALTZING IN EUROPE MOTIF/DELTA/DELTA (SONY)
06 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CLASSICAL DECCA/EMI TV/EMI MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV) 07 ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS OR MOONLIGHT SERENADE DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 08 ANDRE RIEU THE MAGIC OF MOTIF/DELTA/DELTA (SONY) 09 NOAH STEWART NOAH DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV)
10 CBSO/SEAL ANTHONY HOPKINS - COMPOSER CLASSIC FM/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 11 KATHERINE JENKINS ONE FINE DAY DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 12 ANDRE RIEU FOREVER VIENNA DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
‘This double-whammy of the
two biggest brands iarea, with eMarketer forecasting that such
13 TENEBRAE/RPO/SHORT MEALOR/A TENDER LIGHT DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES WARNER CLASSICS/WCJ/WARNER (WARNER) 15 JOHN WILLIAMS WAR HORSE - OST SONY CLASSICAL/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 16 KATHERINE JENKINS THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 17 KATHERINE JENKINS SWEETEST LOVE DECCA/SPECTRUM MUSIC/SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV) 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS CHILL OUT WITH THE MASTERS - THE BEST X5/X5/X5 X5 19 ANDRE RIEU THE COLLECTION PHILIPS/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
20 MILOS KARADAGLIC THE GUITAR DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
revenues will grow from $856m (£534m) in 2010 to $1bn (£0.62bn) this year...’ NAME SURNAME, COMPANY
Q1 SALES
21,010 19,947 10,454 10,267 10,146 9,424 9,241 8,730 7,884 7,444 5,564 5,400 4,889 4,116 3,652 3,631 3,184 3,093 3,057 2,990
Decca typically dominated Q1’s top classical albums, providing 14 of the Top 20 sellers outright and another in conjunction with EMI. Four of its albums came from Dutch violinist, conductor and composer Andre
Rieu, led in second place by his 2011 effort And The Waltz Goes On with the Johann Strauss Orchestra. However, it was outsold in the quarter by Renaissance – Music For Inner Peace, another Decca album conducted by Harry Christophers and featuring ensemble The Sixteen and performers David Miller and Matthew Halls. The big new classical star of the
quarter was Decca’s New York tenor Noah Stewart who attracted widespread media attention as the first black artist to top the UK’s classical albums chart.
TOP 20 SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 DRIVE LAKESHORE/LAKESHORE/LAKESHORE (IMPORT)
02 THE BODYGUARD SONY BMG/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 03 THE MUPPETS WALT DISNEY/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 04 DIRTY DANCING RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
05 ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS CHIPWRECKED - OST ATLANTIC/RHINO (WARNERS)/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 06 THE TWILIGHT SAGA - BREAKING DAWN - 1 ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC REC UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 07 MAMMA MIA POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
08 DAFT PUNK TRON LEGACY - OST WALT DISNEY/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 09 GREASE POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 10 TOP GUN COLUMBIA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
11 (500) DAYS OF SUMMER SIRE/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 12 PROJECT X WATERTOWER/WATERTOWER/WATERTOWER (WATERTOWER) 13 TWILIGHT ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)
14 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER REPRISE/RHINO (WARNERS)/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 15 LUDOVIC BOURCE THE ARTIST - OST SONY CLASSICAL/COLUMBIA LG/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 16 JOHN WILLIAMS WAR HORSE - OSTSONY CLASSICAL/COLUMBIA LG/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
17 DAVID ARNOLD/MICHAEL PRICE SHERLOCK - ORIGINAL TV SOUNDTRACK - 1 SILVA SCREEN (RSK GEM) 18 ALEX TURNER SUBMARINE - OST DOMINO RECORDINGS/DOMINO RECORDINGS (PIAS) 19 GLEE CAST GLEE - THE MUSIC - SEASON ONE - VOL 1 EPIC/EPIC LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 20 THE BOAT THAT ROCKED MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
Crime drama Drive came out on DVD at the end of January and helped its accompanying album become the top-
PEAK POS. Q1 SALES 12 11
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63 5 1
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111 69 35 1 2
22,491 16,875 15,921 14,281 12,147 9,686 8,681 6,953 5,330 4,178 4,112 4,108 3,924 3,804 3,747 3,642 3,527 3,220 2,782 2,714
selling soundtrack of the first quarter. Nearly two decades after its release, the
soundtrack to The Bodyguard in second place prompted new attention following Whitney Houston’s death as the RCA- handled title added another 16,987 sales. The big winner at this year’s Oscar,
where its haul included best picture, was French movie The Artist and its soundtrack by Ludovic Bource was also the top-selling OST released in Q1. It just outsold in the quarter another Sony Classical soundtrack for a 2012 film, War Horse, with music by John Williams.
TOP 20 JAZZ/BLUES ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 CARO EMERALD DELETED SCENES FROM THE CUTTING ROOM DRAMATICO/GRAND MONO/DRAMATICO(ARV) 02 ETTA JAMES AT LAST - THE BEST DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 03 ETTA JAMES THE BEST OF SPECTRUM MUSIC/SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 04 HUGH LAURIE LET THEM TALK WARNER MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 05 LOUIS ARMSTRONG THE BEST OF DECCA/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
06 SEASICK STEVE WALKIN' MAN - THE BEST OF RHINO/RHINO (WARNERS)/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 07 MICHAEL BUBLE SINGS TOTALLY BLONDE METRO/UNION SQUARE MUSIC/UNION SQUARE MUSIC (SONY) 08 NINA SIMONE THE VERY BEST OF RCA/UCJ/COLUMBIA3/DECCA1/SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV) 09 SEASICK STEVE YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS PLAY IT AGAIN SAM/PIAS RECORDINGS (PIAS) 10 AMY WINEHOUSE FRANK ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
11 JOE BONAMASSA/BETH HART DON'T EXPLAIN PROVOGUE/PROVOGUE/MASCOT LABEL GROUP (ARV) 12 BURLESQUE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 13 JANIS JOPLIN GREATEST HITS COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 14 NORAH JONES COME AWAY WITH ME PARLOPHONE/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 15 ETTA JAMES AT LAST - THE BEST OF SONY MUSIC/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 16 PORTICO QUARTET PORTICO QUARTET REAL WORLD/REAL WORLD/REAL WORLD (PROPER MUSIC) 17 GREGORY PORTER BE GOOD MOTEMA/MOTEMA/MOTEMA (PROPER) 18 GREGORY PORTER WATER MOTEMA/MOTEMA/MOTEMA (PROPER) 19 MICHAEL BUBLE IT'S TIME REPRISE/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 20 ELLA FITZGERALD GOLD VERVE/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
Three weeks before Whitney Houston’s death, the music world lost in Etta James (right) one of the giants of US R&B, jazz and blues. As a consequence, three retrospectives
by her register among the 20 biggest jazz and blues albums of Q1, two named after her signature tune At Last. However, they were all outsold by Dramatico act Caro Emerald’s Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor, which has now shifted more than 350,000 copies in the UK. Current hot jazz property Gregory Porter delivered in February his second
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Q1 SALES
40,205 27,461 16,512 15,725 12,932 9,990 8,744 8,579 7,484 6,430 6,201 5,872 5,807 5,311 4,182 3,970 3,936 3,916 3,205 3,162
album Be Good through independent Motema and it is joined in this best-sellers list by its predecessor Water.
TOP 20 MUSIC VIDEO TITLES Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CAST LOVE NEVER DIES UNIVERSAL PICTURES (CINRAM) 02 MICHAEL JACKSON THIS IS IT SONY PICTURES HE (SONY)
03 CAST RECORDING PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ALBERT HALL UNIVERSAL PICTURES(CINRAM) 04 ADELE LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL XL RECORDINGS/XL BEGGARS (PIAS) 05 ANDRE RIEU ROMANTIC PARADISE DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV)
06 DANIEL O'DONNELL LIVE FROM NASHVILLE - PART 2 DMG TV/DEMON MUSIC/DEMON MUSIC GROUP (SONY) 07 ANDRE RIEU IN WONDERLAND DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 08 TAKE THAT PROGRESS LIVE POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 09 ALFIE BOE THE BRING HIM HOME TOUR UNIVERSAL PICTURES (CINRAM)
10 ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING LES MISERABLES - IN CONCERT - 25TH UNIVERSAL PICTURES (CINRAM) 11 JUSTIN BIEBER NEVER SAY NEVER PARAMOUNT HOME ENT (SONY)
12 CAST RECORDING DREAM CAST - LES MISERABLES IN CONCERT VCI/BBC WORLDWIDE (SONY) 13 IRON MAIDEN EN VIVO EMI/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
14 GEORGE HARRISON LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD LIONSGATE/ELEVATION SALES (TECHNICOLOR) 15 GLEE CAST GLEE - THE CONCERT MOVIE 20TH CENTURY FOX HE (CINRAM)
16 DANIEL O'DONNELL LIVE FROM NASHVILLE DMG TV/DEMON MUSIC/DEMON MUSIC GROUP (SONY) 17 JLS EYES WIDE OPEN EPIC/EPIC LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
18 ANDREA BOCELLI CONCERTO - ONE NIGHT IN CENTRAL PARK DECCA/SUGAR/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 19 CLIFF RICHARD THE SOULICIOUS TOUR UNIVERSAL PICTURES(CINRAM) 20 ANDRE RIEU FIESTA MEXICANA UNIVERSAL MUSIC DVD/DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies and its predecessor Phantom Of The Opera were both among the three biggest-selling music videos of Q1. Love Never Dies originally opened in
the West End in 2010 before productions launched in Melbourne in 2011 and Sydney this year and it is the original Australian cast who feature on this Universal Pictures release. Third-placed Phantom Of The Opera
captures a 25th anniversary performance of the landmark musical at London’s Royal Albert Hall last autumn, while a
PEAK POS. Q1 SALES
4 1 7
32 33 39 97 5
23 4 3 2
46 10 73 85 44
196 29 13
44,377 34,127 30,400 27,856 23,439 19,749 19,228 15,011 14,968 12,825 9,351 7,068 6,146 5,111 4,053 3,798 3,608 3,354 3,233 3,130
video of a concert by Adele at the same venue headed towards 150,000 UK cumulative sales in the quarter.
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