4 MusicWeek 06.07.12 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
MERCURY PRIZE: The closing date for the 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize is next Thursday (July 12). Record labels interested in submitting albums by UK or Irish artists released between Tuesday July 12, 2011 and Monday September 10, 2012 should visit
mercuryprize.com/ info to register. UNIVERSAL/EMI: The European Commission has released a statement of objections to Universal’s £1.2bn bid for EMI’s record labels. According to sources who have seen the list, it argues that music giant Universal already extracts materially higher prices from digital distributors than rivals, and that buying EMI would allow it to raise digital music prices. SONY/EMI: The sale of EMI Music Publishing to an investor group consisting of Sony Corporation of America, the Estate of Michael Jackson, PJSC, Jynwel Capital Limited, GSO Capital Partners LP and American record executive David Geffen has officially been completed. BPI: Sales of albums in the UK dropped from 50.5m to 43.6m year- on-year (-13.8%) in the six months to the end of June 2012 - but digital albums sales climbed 17.3% in the period, according to new BPI statistics. The stats, based on Official Charts Company data, show that in Q2 2012, digital downloads accounted for 34.7% of all albums sold. However, overall album sales in Q2, including physical formats, were down to 20.6m from 23.5m – a drop of 12.7% compared to the same quarter in 2011. NORDOFF ROBBINS: £400,000 was raised for the music therapy charity at the 2012 Silver Clef Awards. The total included private donations and £250k via auction. Bidders in the room included Michael Bublé, Peter Kay, Carl Leighton-Pope, Sony’s Paul Bursche, John Giddings and Andrew Lloyd-Webber. EARACHE RECORDS: Earache Records and EMI Music have completed a new distribution deal that, for the first time, includes a partnership in the UK. The deal also sees Earache – who are about to celebrate their 25th anniversary - and EMI renew their existing partnerships in Benelux, France, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Greece, as well as adding the UK, Ireland and Spain.
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TOTP compilations set for release T
PRODUCT BY TOM PAKINKIS
he BBC will release a number of compilation albums tied in with
Flying Music’s recently announced Top Of The Pops Live stage show. Announced in May, theatre
production Top Of The Pops Live will embark on a UK tour, premiering at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne from October 18-30 this year. Now, Music Week has
learnt that BBC Worldwide has signed a licensing deal with Flying Music Entertainment aiming to “capture the spirit of the iconic TV show” in the production. Speaking ahead of the
company’s 30th birthday on Sunday ( July 8), Flying Music’s Derek Nicol said of the release, “The BBC have a deal with
EMI, so alongside the tour
they’ll be putting out various Top Of The Pops compilations. “I think they’ve had the deal
for a number of years and it’s been recently renewed,” he added. “EMI will be very aggressively marketing some of the old catalogue effectively.”
Top Of The Pops Live will
be the latest in a long line of Flying Music brands that have been picked up by labels following successful stage productions. The Solid Silver 60s Show, which has been running for 27 years, was picked up in a similar way when the company licensed the brand to Universal. “Universal put out a
Volume 1 album one year and a Volume 2 the next year, said Nicol. “I think they’ve sold 150,000 units on that basic compilation.” “Dancing In The Streets is
another one. They used the brand we used to market the shows as the basis of a compilation package that they TV marketed, which was very successful.” Talking about the live stage
show itself, Nicol said, “I think everyone’s aware of Top Of The Pops. They might not have
Breakout event hosts Access to Music
Music Week’s monthly Breakout event at Proud Galleries, Camden will this month showcase a competition-winning talent from the nationwide Access To Music (ATM) college – alongside its usual plethora of hotly-tipped acts. Co-founders of Breakout
promoter All Night Long, Gary Prosser and Ben James, were special guest judges at Access to Music’s Higher Education (ATM HE) division’s end-of-year showcases earlier last month. A total of 34 acts performed
two or three songs to an audience of friends, family and music industry in London. Prosser and James –with
special guest judge Jaime Bradley from management company Rocket Music – voted rap- electro livewire Kitty Cowell (above) from Access To Music’s Artist Development Programme as the winner. She will perform on the
main stage at Proud alongside Bebe Black, The Night, BIGkids, Luke Sital Singh and Liz Lawrence.
I think everyone’s aware of Top Of The Pops. They might not
have experienced it but with people having watched the
show all the way back to the Sixties, there’s a wide audience”
DEREK NICOL, FLYING MUSIC
experienced it because they’re too young but there’s a huge crossover with people having watched the show all the way back to the Sixties. So there’s a wide audience. “What we’re trying to do is
create a situation where they’re seeing something on the stage as if Top Of The Pops is being recorded live. But this is a concert so it’s not the half-hour show; it’s
a two-hour show,” Nicol added. See Flying Music feature starting on page 25.
Noise Inc teams up with Push
Digital marketing and social commerce agency Noise Inc. has entered into a partnership with ‘creative technologists’ Push Entertainment. Noise Inc. clients have ranged
from Richer Sounds to Ministry of Sound. The firm built The 2012 Brit Awards official app. Push Entertainment
Breaking out: The ATM showcase winner Kitty Cowell (left) will perform at this month’s Music Week Breakout event – an ‘ideal platform for spring-boarding the best talent’ according to ATM’s Lulu Le Vay (above)
The Breakout team were also
impressed by electro-pop act Cedellah, who they booked to perform in the event’s ‘acoustic stable’. Lulu Le Vay (pictured above
right), deputy course director at ATM, said: “Breakout provides the ideal platform for spring- boarding the best talent we have coming off our courses at the British Academy of New Music [campus]. Providing bridges
to industry is very much our ethos and hugely beneficial for our students.” ATM is currently taking
applicants for its new two-year BA (Hons) Music Business degree, offered in partnership with Birmingham City University. (More information:
Accesstomusic.co.uk) PLEASE NOTE: This month’s Breakout will now take place on Thursday, July 12.
specialises in creating tools to show brand loyalty via social media channels. Recent campaigns include Justin Bieber, Now That’s What I Call Music!, Tesco, and toiletry brand Lynx. The combined partnership
will seek to expand into the US. Jane Turner, Noise Inc.’s CEO
said: “This is the first of several partnerships we have in the pipeline and we are looking to expand on both companies’ positions as ‘social innovators’ who major brands can turn to if they want to more effectively transform their chattering fans into actual paying customers.”
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