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GUETTA ROOM David Guetta was in London town recently, when he was presented with an award by the EMI Music UK team for platinum sales in the UK of his current album Nothing But The Beat (300,000) - plus over 2.5 million singles from the album sold in the UK to date. Nothing But The Beat is still selling strongly in the UK with sales now approaching 500,000. [L-R] Caroline Prothero (Prohibition DJ Management); Caroline Hilton (Artist Relations & Event Manager, EMI Music UK); Jason Ellis (Director, Positiva Records); Tony Barnes (Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Virgin Records UK); Andria Vidler (CEO EMI Music UK & Ireland); Alex Sayers (Junior Product Manager, Virgin Records UK); David Guetta; Stella Fabinyi (Promotions Coordinator, EMI Music UK); Grazia Tribulato (International Marketing Director, EMI Music UK); Carole MacDonald (VP Marketing, EMI Music UK); Jasmin Ludolf (International Marketing Coordinator, EMI Music UK)


THIS IS YOUR ’LIFE Before Irish man band Westlife played their final-ever London gig at The O2 Arena last week, they posed with their touring team as they were presented with plaques for the sold-out Farewell Greatest Hits Tour. Top L to R: Sarah Donovan (Live Nation), Sarah Sherlock (Solo), Kian Egan, John Giddings (Solo), Karen Ringland (Westlife Production Manager), Maria Barry (Live Nation), Barry Clayman (Live Nation), Mark Feehily, Steve Guest (Guesty PR), Jo Headland (Live Nation). Front: Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne.


FABLED LABELS


Ruthless Records Founded 1987 Key Artists Eazy-E, N.W.A, JJ Fad


Founded by rapper Eazy-E (real name Eric Wright) and Jerry Heller in Compton, California, Ruthless Records is widely credited with pioneering gangsta rap West Coast hip-hop. Heller was the manager of hip-hop group N.W.A when he founded


Ruthless in 1987 along with Eazy-E who was a member N.W.A along with Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella and MC Ren. As a vehicle for both N.W.A and Eazy’s releases, the label’s first


successful single was Boyz-n-the-Hood in the hood from Wright, followed by Dopeman and 8-Ball from the group as a whole. Not restricted to putting out the work of its founding figures, Ruthless


also released work from acts such as Frost and JJ Fad. The outfit’s first full release, however, was N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, which went multi- platinum and was followed by Eazy-E’s solo debut Eazy-Duz-It – a release that did well in LA’s hip-hop underground. Dr. Dre eventually left N.W.A, which ultimately broke up entirely, and


went on to set up Death Row Records. A rivalry sparked between Death Row and Ruthless when Eazy-E signed the likes of Gangsta Dresta and B.G. Knocc Out. MC Ren remained on Ruthless post-N.W.A and was joined by names such as Will 1X and the Atban Klann and will.i.am and Apl.de.ap who would later form The Black Eyed Peas.


Did You Know? An N.W.A biopic called Straight Outta Compton is currently in the works with F. Gary Gray in the director’s chair.


REGINA SPEKTOR VS SCISSOR SISTERS 0 10m 0m 50k SOCIAL STANDING Official fan pages


go head-to-head LIKES


Prof. Green– 1,383,573 0.5m


Regina Spektor – 1,359,665 WrSetch 32 – 134,771


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cissor Sisters – 462,775 1m


665 1.5m


Regina Spektor – 70,178 Scissor Sisters –


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– 123,958 200k VIEWS


Regina Spektor – 42,168,341 Scissor Sisters – 3,880,110


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