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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 26
SINGLES Universal 48.9% Warner 22.1% Sony 16.4% EMI 11.3% Others 1.3%
DIGITAL vsPHYSICAL 100
20 40 60 80
0 34.0% 65.6% 33.8% 65.6% 27.1% 72.5%
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The Word shuts down after 9 years Friday, June 29 Chairman of Universal parent Vivendi exits Thursday, June 28 Adele’s 21 arrives on streaming services Wednesday, June 27 Rod Stewart signs worldwide recording deal with Universal Wednesday, June 27 European Commission publishes full Sony ATV/EMI decision Thursday, June 28
33.2% 66.4% 34.3% 65.3%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 45.4% Warner 22.9% Sony 15.3% EMI 7.8% Others 8.6%
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The Proms start in this month’s BBC Musicmag- azine which has a complete 27- page guide to the world’s “greatest classi- cal music festi- val” including an interview with maestro Daniel Barenboim, a guide to the “very best concerts” and 15 of the “dottiest music works” ever written. Barenboim is interviewed by
James Naughtie, who ahead of his appearances at the BBC Proms with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, imparts conducting wisdom: “A line of thought. That’s what [the conduc- tor] must give them. It is the most important thing – the capacity to think about music. Not just do, but think”. Handel is composer of the month
and Jonathan Keates finds out how he managed to “enjoy such favour from the British royal family, and yet keep them all relatively at arm’s length” by developing a talent for cul- tivating the “great and the good”. In the reviews pages Anna Picard
NO: 69%
@laurenlaverne The older I get, the more newspapers I read, the more I think music is the only Fun Thing that doesn’t give you cancer.
(Lauren Laverne) Tuesday, June 26
@RedVelvetKid Accidentally drowned my BlackBerry so I might as well kill myself. (Angela Lee, Outside Organisation)
Tuesday, June 26
@GeoffLloyd When I get miserable about putting on weight, I cheer myself up by imagining one day I’ll get to go in that special ambulance for
the obese. (Geoff Lloyd, Absolute Radio) Wednesday, June 27
@Pursehouse Front page of this week’s NME; “Why the [Stone] Roses matter more than ever”. Oh do fuck off. (Simon Pursehouse,
Sentric Music) Wednesday, June 27 Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews
@davewibberley A student has just told me that one of the strong things about Adele is that she doesn’t dress proactively. Who does? Except in a
fire. (Dave Wibberley, University of East London) Thursday, June 28
@itsmikelike Few people just left the e@NME office to head up to Heaton Park. I’m starting to get REALLY excit- ed now *bitesfist #heatonparkNME
(Mike Williams, NME) Thursday, June 28
@ameliaosheaWhy did I decide to dress like such an emo on such a bloody hot day... (Amelia O’Shea, Dawbell PR)
Thursday, June 28
@paulyoddjob1975 Good on Pearce for dropping Beckham. He wants to win, not pay homage. If Beckham why not Bobby Charlton/Geoff Hurst??
Play the game not egos. (Paul Latham, Live Nation) Friday, June 29
@jamesjammcmahon Ten years ago today I got my first ever bit of work for NME. This means that I have been a working journalist for ten years. THIS
IS MENTAL (James McMahon, Kerrang!) Tuesday, July 3
@professorgreen PPL. Lovely. (Professor Green) Tuesday, July 3
Different actors will play Cher in a musical that uses
the singer’s songs to tell her life story
6th
Place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for Ellie
Goulding’s Lights - a slow climb helped by country
radio play following its May 2011 US release
@ARRJAYKAY “Muse unveil new
Olympics song”. Shoot me, shoot me now (RJ Keeling, Live Nation) Thursday, June 28
YES: 31%
enjoys Christain Curnyn’s “percep- tive revival” of Handel’s Alcest, giving the “fleet strings and polished soloists” 5/5 while Kate Bolton admires Monsieur De Machy from Paolo Pandolfo who “makes the music dance” with his “supple bow- ing, elastic rhythms, dainty orna- ments and floated notes.”
LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST...
@bennymortimer Heaton Park is the new Watch The Throne #jealous (Ben Mortimer, Polydor) Friday, June 29
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
5 Singles released and DJ
trio super group Swedish House Mafia call it a day
2nd
Youngest male solo artist ever to reach No.1 on the
album chart is Justin Bieber, trailing only behind
Neil Reid, who was 12 when he led the list in 1972 with his self-titled album
$1m
Offered to Chris Brown and Drake each to settle their personal dispute in the
boxing ring by billionaire Alki David
£23m
Amount of money generated by The Stone Roses three comeback gigs in Heaton
Park, Manchester last week- end, according to the city’s Evening News paper
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