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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 20
SINGLES Universal 52.7% Sony 18.6% Warner 14.0% EMI 12.8% Others 1.9%
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Amazing Radio to exit UK digital radio Stephen Tandy: “What a bloody shame! Commercial radio, new artists and small labels desperatly needs stations like Amazing Radio – you will be missed but never forgotten and we will support you in whatever you do in the UK- you have been Amazing!” Martin Clark: “Only started listening a few weeks ago and was so impressed (or should that be Amazed). This is such shame – will listen online as much as possible as daytime 6Music doesn’t focus anywhere near enough on new and
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UK Music research shows value of CD copying Friday, May 18 Counting Crows to release four free tracks on BitTorrent Wednesday, May 16 Ivor Novellos 2012 - all the winners Thursday, May 17 Pirate Bay hit by ‘DDos attack’: perpetrator remains anonymous Wednesday, May 16 Robin Gibb tributes: Music industry mourns Monday, May 21
emerging artists.
Mick Sharp: Sad to see you go. I’ve been lis- tening there from your first day. What a wealth of new artists and
music we’ve lost. So please get back on UK air, digital or FM soon.
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ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 42.9% Sony 22.0% EMI 11.4% Warner 10.2% Others 13.5%
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Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you.
Marilyn Manson’s death and sub- sequent resur- rection is the headline fea- ture in Metal Hammer. Inside the cover he’s back with lat- est album Born Villan and a new lease of life, declaring that he loves absinthe, breathing air, doing drugs, and rock‘n’roll. Mike Portnoy’s also flying high
with two new albums and enough projects on the go to make Corey Taylor weep. He’s motivated as ever and new venture Adrenalin Mob is inspired by wanting to do something “really rifty and aggressive”. Slayer celebrate 25 years of
reigning in blood on the album’s sil- ver anniversary and talk through the making of the metal masterpiece ahead of their performance at I’ll Be Your Mirror festival, while Merlin Alderslade finds out how an acoustic reinterpretation of Korn’s dubstep-heavy track Narcissistic Cannibal from Welsh rockers The Dirty Youth landed them a sweet gig supporting said nu metallers. Slash collaborates with Myles
Kennedy and The Conspirators for latest release Apocalyptic Love and Malcolm Dome says each song is “carefully crafted yet retains a cru- cial spontaneity”, an album which rates nine out of 10.
LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@JazzySherman The Voice has lower viewing figures than BGT which just chose a dog and girl as its winner!? #whattheeff (Jazz Sherman, Rocket
Music Management) Monday, May 14
@vipcj28Whitney Houston’s family doing a TV Reality show, am i the only one to think it’s a bit soon? (Chris J Hunte, The Roster) Monday, May 14
@CalvinHarris I just read Michael Winner once ate so much beef carpac- cio he had to be taken to the hosptital (Calvin Harris) Monday, May 14
@robbieflash That awkward moment when you see a PR/manager spray painting their artist’s name on a wall in Shoreditch and taking a photo.
Yeah, that. (Robbie Wojciechowski, Folkroom Records) Monday, May 14
@ClaireWalley1 Amazing night at the 10-year anniversary of We Will Rock You. I left sufficiently Rocked and with severe hair envy #HisNameWasBrian
(Claire Louise Walley, freelance) Tuesday, May 15
@AndrewMaleMojo Transcribing Garland Jeffreys interview. He’s recall- ing a street-corner singer in 50s New York, STETSON NICHOLS. Now, THAT is
a name. (Andrew Male, MOJO) Tuesday, May 15
@catmacdonald Love it when you wake up bright & early after the #sraa2012 & realise that despite dancing to Mousse T - Horny at mid-
night....no hangover. (Cat Macdonald, Absolute Radio) Tuesday, May 15
@sophie_hall People at Ladbroke Grove get weirder every day. Today a WOMAN wolf whistled me and growled ‘behave’. (Sophie Hall, MTA
Records) Wednesday, May 16
@ChrisUnLimited There's interesting casting and then there's this: Chris Moyles to play Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour – no, really
(Chris Cooke, CMU) Wednesday, May 16
@andywelch81 I appear to be going through a Black Crowes phase. I hope it passes soon. I’ve not got the hair for it and the denim is costing a for-
tune. (Andy Welch, Press Association) Wednesday, May 16
@BBC6MusicNewsWe have just dis- covered that Mark Knopfler wrote ‘Private Dancer’ for Tina Turner and has a dinosaur named after him #ivors
(BBC6 Radio 6 Music) Thursday, May 17
@BoyGeorge Some amazing people were honoured yesterday at ‘The Ivors’ and a modicum of smoke was blown up some bottoms! #Justsaying
(Boy George) Friday, May 18 Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews £9.4m Rumoured yearly fee for
Britney Spears to sit on the US X Factor judging panel for the show’s new series
3 Islamic groups have
called for a Lady Gaga con- cert to be cancelled next month in Jakarta, voicing strong objections to her “vulgar” style
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
12.6
Percentage of global music sales in 2011 from UK artists, accounting for
one in eight of all artist albums sold
Tickets remain available for Madonna’s 36 US shows
30,000 4
As in Channel: the new TV
home for the Mercury Music Prize, following 15 years of exclusive partnership with
the BBC. Organisers prom- ise “increased coverage”
75 Years of age: "The
Godfather of go-go" Chuck Brown has passed away
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