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GUETTA-ING ONVERYWELL World-renowned DJ/producer David Guetta hasmade his EMI family a very happy bunch by renewing his record contract. He’s been on themajor for awhopping 11 years: [L-R] Raneet Ahuja (legal and business affairsmanager, EMIMusic UK),Valérie Queinnec (MD, EMIMusic France), Christophe Palatre (head of newmusic, EMI Music France), Bart Cools (EVP EUmarketing / ROW, EMIMusic), Samar Alkadhi (international promotionmanager, EMIMusic), Pierre-Georges Kieffer (marketing director, EMIMusic France), Jean- Charles Carré (businessmanager,What AMusic Ltd), David Guetta, OlivierMontfort (president, EMIMusic France), Caroline Prothero (David Guetta’smanager), Grazia Tribulato (internationalmarketing director EU & ROW, EMIMusic), and Thibaut Casanova (international development director, EMIMusic France)
KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF...
SUMIT BOTHRA ATCMgmt, Manager: (Fink, The Boxer Rebellion, The Staves, Ethan Johns)
FOOTING THE BILL Live Nation's John Probyn and Paul Lathamjoined the likes of livemusic legend Carl Leighton-Pope and Irish promoter Denis Desmond for a 145-mile sponsored walk across the UK lastmonth. Sounds gruelling to us, but the lads were in high spirits - as Probyn put it: "It's 144miles past 73 pubs, what could possibly go wrong?" Gladly, little did; the gents raised a whopping amount of money for charity, Leighton-Pope for the Honeypot Children's Charity (£19,500); Probyn and Lathamfor Cancer Research UK (£29,200). Some playboy bunnies in Union Jack outfits turned up to congratulate them, too. Result. There’s still plenty of time to donate at:
www.justgiving.com/carllp and
www.justgiving.com/TLW.
ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK July 9, 2011
Morrisseymakes the cover after headlining the second day of Vince Power’s newly- expanded Hop Farmfestival in Kent. Joining the former Smiths singer was Iggy And The Stooges, Lou Reed and Patti Smith… There’s something of a socialmedia boomoccurring formusic thanks to fans sending 200m
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TALENT 12LAURA MARLING
Album number three for Marling who reunites with producer Ethan Johns
INTERNATIONAL 15GERMANY
A focus on what is now the world’s third largest music territory
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NEWS 05GLASTO EFFECT
Music Week analysis shows how festivals can reignite catalogue sales
Morrissey headlined the second day of Vince Power’s newly-expanded Hop Farm festival last Saturday night in Kent.
The singer was at the top of a bill
that included Iggy And The Stooges, Lou Reed and Patti Smith, as well as newer acts such as Viva Brother. The Eagles headlined the Friday night, with Prince topping the bill yesterday (Sunday). This was the fourth Hop Farm, which
began in 2008 as a return to basics for festivals, eschewing corporate sponsorship, branding and VIP areas. 2011 saw the festival expand to three days for the first time, after securing Prince’s only UK date of the year. The festival is promoted by Power’s
This farming man
new Music Festivals plc venture, which made its stock-market debut last Tuesday, raising £6.5m. Music Festivals has the rights to Hop
Farm, the Benicassim festival near Valencia, the Feis festival, which debuted in London last month, Pop Farm, a sister event to Hop Farm that will launch in 2012, and a new classical music festival to be held in the south east. SEE PAGE 10 FOR MORE
MUSIC’S ONLINE ‘WORD-OF-MOUTH’ ENJOYS AN INCREDIBLE INCREASE
Tweets, Likes and views fuel music boom on social media
DIGITAL BY BEN CARDEW
M
USIC IS DOMINATING the cultural conversation among Twitter users, who
tweets a day on average. Rebecca Black and Britney Spears’ (above) albumFemme Fatale were the top trending entertainment topics of the first half of 2011… Glastonbury had its biggest impact on the UK albums and singles charts ever this year. Sunday night headliner Beyoncé saw her new album4 debut at No.1. Coldplay cashed in significantly as well with A Rush Of Blood To The Head leading a return to the Top 75 albums chart for all four of their LPs… And HMV is to introduce new spaces formusic as part of a £6mrefit for 150 of its stores. Chief exec Simon Fox says the refurbishments prove the commitment of the group tomusic.
are now sending 200m Tweets a day, a tenfold increase over the last 30 months and an increasingly essential part of artist marketing. The top two Twitter trending
entertainment topics in the first half of 2011 were singer Rebecca Black and Femme Fatale, the recent album from Britney Spears, while Mumford
top five Twitter users based on number of followers are musicians, with Lady GaGa and Justin Bieber at one and two, ahead of Barack Obama. Meanwhile, Eminem’s official
Facebook page has the third largest number of “likes”, according to the Guinness Book of Records with 42.05m, behind Facebook’s own page and Zynga’s Texas Hold’em. GaGa’s Facebook has 39.49m “likes” in fifth.
“Social media is really important
because one of the best forms of marketing is word of mouth,” said Gareth Currie, director of United Agency, which has recently worked on campaigns for Kaiser Chiefs and Deadmau5. “So instead of it being
to really gain traction, was also in the news last week as Justin Timberlake joined with Californian digital advertising agency Specific Media to buy
the company for just $35m (£22m).
ben@musicweek.com
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JLS SheMakesMeWanna VIVA BROTHER Famous FirstWords JLS lay claimto Track Of TheWeek this time. She MakesMeWanna featuring Dev has “the air of a nailed-on hit” according to themag. Its “bumping house beats and towering synth lines” can be compared to TheWanted and wouldn’t sound out of place in an Ibiza superclub 10 years ago. AlbumOf TheWeek goes to Viva Brother’s Famous FirstWords (we’re really very sorry), with clear Britpop inspiration taken from the likes of Oasis and Blur.
& Sons were the eighth most popular topic. And four of the
Music Week today looks at the increasing influence of social media – no t a bl y Fa c e b o o k ,
Twitter and YouTube – in promoting artists.
top down, it is breaking down the barriers between fans and artists.” New figures from Nielsen show
that Twitter’s UK audience increased by a third in May, with Facebook now the second most-popular website in the country, behind Google. Myspace, the first social media site
GLASTO TV GIVES ACTS A CHART BOOST
GLASTONBURY PERFORMERS TOOK over the UK singles and albums charts yesterday (Sunday) after the festival had its biggest impact on record buying yet. While Sunday night headliner
Beyoncé’s brand new album 4 comfortably debuted at number one on the Official Charts Company’s artist albums chart and her cut Best Thing I Never Had arrived at three on the singles countdown, demand rose substantially for current and back catalogue titles by other Glastonbury performers. The biggest winners were Coldplay
who instantly cashed in on their Saturday night set with the single Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall leaping from number 42 to back inside the Top 10, while A Rush Of Blood To The Head led a return of all four of their studio albums to the Top 75. The top end of this week’s albums
chart also reflects big sales gains for Glastonbury acts such as Jessie J, Chase & Status, Mumford & Sons and Elbow, while newly issued albums by Biffy Clyro and Kaiser Chiefs were among the chart’s highest new entries. Meanwhile, Janelle Monae led
several lesser-known acts to sizable sales spikes with demand for her album The Archandroid increasing more than four-fold. Other gainers – all helped by the BBC’s extensive coverage of the festival – included Two Door Cinema Club and Warpaint. SEE PAGE 5 FOR FULL STORY
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1 JASON DERULO Don’tWanna Go Home
2 EXAMPLE 3 BEYONCE
4 CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. KELIS
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED FOR AIM VISIT
Trade mission to New York secures deals for UK companies
Changed The Way You KissMe
Best Thing I Never Had
Bounce
5 PITBULL, NAYER, AFROACK, NE-YO GiveMe Everything
SINGLES TOP 5 09.07.11 SINGLE
Which track would you like played at your funeral? Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding.
What’s your karaoke speciality? Michael Jackson’s You Are Not Alone.
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ALBUMS TOP 5 09.07.11 POS ARTIST
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Which song was the first dance at your wedding? I was so blitzed by that time of the night I honestly couldn’t tell you. To be fair though, I just asked the missus and she doesn’t remember either.
Recommend a trackMusicWeek readersmay not have heard. Banana BoatMan by Junior Reid. It was so huge a tune tomy young mind that it will remain emblazoned ontomy ear drums forever. A few days later I heard Doggystyle for the first time. That week changedmy life forever.
© Official Charts Company
What’s your favourite single/ track of all time? This Is The Thing by Fink. There’s something to be said about artists capable of delivering the truth and nothing but the truth.
TURNED INTO STONE We sawall sorts at the triumphant Stone Roses gigs lastweekend –lairy celebs, naked scallies and LOTS ofmen urinating outdoors. MusicWeek also said hello to Paul Smernicki (Universal), Nick Huggett (Island),Will Blake (SJM), Jo Dipple (UKMusic), John Robb (Louder ThanWar), Dot Levine (UKMusic), Jane Kearney (LD) and theMurray Chalmers PR crew. One Love etc.
First record you remember buying? It was back when I was a young kid in Saudi Arabia. There were about six English language albums in the local ‘record store’ - all of which were pirate cassettes, and all of which were American or British rock records. I could afford only one, and God’s hand guided me to Ozzy Osbourne’s Tribute. I played it to DEATH and even got ejected frommy school bus for daring to play IronMan through the stereo. Standing alone for 30 minutes in the scorching hot Arabian desert as punishment ain’tmuch fun when you’re 10. My respectful 30minutes of silence inmemory of Randy Rhoads I guess... Rock on.
Last track you downloaded? Hey Ho by The Lumineers.
PHOTO: Morrissey at the Hop FarmFestival
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