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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 24

SINGLES Universal 46.0% Warner 22.2% Sony 13.0% EMI 12.3% Others 6.5%

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Sting lends support to campaign to bring Amazing Radio back to digital Jo Oliver: “Great to see Sting still able to empathise with artists at the start of their careers. Artists who are real musicians and songwriters who

haven’t just had a leg up by The X Factor/big label/TV reali- ty machine to have a short, fat, force-fed career devoid of meaning. Thank you sir. For supporting something as valu- able as Amazing Radio. Let's get it back on DAB. Please!

TOP 5 STORIES ON MUSICWEEK.COM

Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending June 19

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Tesco swoops for We7 Thursday, June 14 PPL boss blasts Olympics' free stance for musicians Thursday, June 14 One Direction will become $100m business empire, says Sony Wednesday, June 13 Grainge, Faxon, Mills to attend Universal, EMI hearing Friday, June 15 Sting lends support to Amazing Radio campaign Wednesday, June 13

Madeline Paterson: “Yes indeed. Bring it back. We need Amazing Radio.”

PPL boss blasts Olympics’ free stance for musicians Anthony Anderson: “A very fair point – outrageous! And yet there was plenty of budget to create new arrangements of the 200-plus national anthems (despite the fact that arrangements approved by the national Olympic committees already existed). And further budget to record them all again.”

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ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 38.8% Sony 23.7% Warner 14.6% EMI 13.5% Others 9.4%

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The dramatic ups and downs of The Kinks’ Ray Davies are on the front of The Word and inside the cover he says 48 years of making music have taught him that there’s nothing new but there’s still things to be written: “for me it’s about an endless supply of humanity, a new greatness will emerge as each gold- en age is fired by creativity”. Joe Walsh recalls the hazy days

as an alcoholic in the seventies when the James Gang supported The Who, and mentor Keith Moon taught him how to mix fertiliser and detergent in a condom and flush it down a hotel lavatory – where it would generally explode three floors below. Tracey Thorn says that in some

ways she wasn’t really cut out for a career in the music industry: “I’ve always been a bit of a square peg in a round hole” and having kids has made her put music second place. Laetita Sadier reveals that the

record that made her want to be a singer was The Smiths’ first album. Rob Young reckons Snowgoose

are where the frost of fantasy and the icicle of ambient meet the stur- dy winterwear of folk (sort of) and have found their “place in the sun” with debut album Harmony Springs.

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@Eve_Barlow “My new album in my opinion is… EUPHORIC.” - Usher. Not backward in coming forward. (Eve Barlow, Deputy Production

Editor at Q/MOJO/Empire) Monday, June 11

@itsohsobritish Got offered the job of volume controller at Cher Lloyd’s concerts... I turned it down. #itsohsobritish

(British People) Monday, June 11 @doctorpcircus some people take

music too seriously (Doctor P (Shaun Brockhurst)) Tuesday, June 12

@Al_Horner Literally every single time

I hear that Carly Rae Jepsen song I am underwhelmed by how un-crazy she is.

(Al Horner, freelance) Tuesday, June 12 YES: 86% LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...

@StantonWarriors Back in London! Shit cafe breakfast served by a moody wannabe gangster yoot, followed by a rip off surly taxi

encounter. Great to be home! (Stanton Warriors) Wednesday, June 13

@jamesjammcmahon Listening to Blink-182’s last record Neighborhoods. Never thought I’d like a Blink-182 record, let alone love one

(James McMahon, Kerrang! Editor) Wednesday, June 13

@kanyewest THANKS TO ALL MY FANS. I AM TWEETING UNDER THE STAGE WHILE JAY IS RAPPING IN DUBLIN ON MY BIRTHDAY. YOU GUYS

MAKE ALL MY DREAMS POSSIBLE. (Kanye West) Wednesday, June 13

@timjboddy hot chip live. pretty, er, wow. that’s my review done. (Tim Boddy, The 405) Thursday, June 14

@BenAllenMusicPR I hate the juxta- position of having hair cut on a really ‘good hair day’. What does one do, wait until the next day? #middle-

classproblems (Ben Allen, BAM! PR) Thursday, June 14

@RozzerM Dear@Dominos_UK. I am stuck at home ill with no food (or money for that matter) Please send me promotional pizza.

(Roz Mansfield, Atlantic) Thursday, June 14

@Pursehouse In a rush I just mis- spelled astonishing on my iPhone & it autocorrected as ‘Astonish Fly’. That’s a record label name waiting to happen.

(Simon Pursehouse, Sentric Music) Thursday, June 14

@pipvsrecords Actually, properly, mindblowingly excited about a con- cert for once. Refused, August, boom. (Pip Newby, PIAS) Friday, June 15

THE MAGIC NUMBERS

Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with

these head-spinning facts and figures...

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Paid to Morrissey in a settle- ment in relation to the libel case he brought against NME in 2007 for an article

where he said the magazine “deliberately twisted” his

words to make him appear racist

91%

Stake supermarket giant Tesco has purchased in

music streaming site We7 for £10.8m

44m

Records sold by Westlife... Band member Shane Filan

was recently declared bank- rupt

£1 Paid by supermarket chain

J Sainsbury for HMV Group’s shareholding in ebook net- working site Anobii

$100m Of business chairman and

CEO of Sony Music UK Nick Gatfield expects boy band

One Direction will represent over the next year

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No.1s on the Billboard charts for American Idol

contestants on the show’s 11th anniversary