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ARTIST ALBUMS MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q2 10
10 15 20 25 30 35 40
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Q210 Q310 Q410 Q111 Q210 Q311 Q411 Q112 Q212
UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDEPENDENTS
ALBUMS BY COMPANY SHARE Island 8.4%
RCA 7.7% Polydor 7.1% UMTV 5.7%
Columbia 5.6% Mercury 5.4%
Virgin 4.8% Atlantic 4.3%
EMI 3.6% Decca 3.5%
02 4 6 8 10 Conversely,Warner made the sharpest gains of
any major on singles, growing its unit sales over the year by 31.4%,which was made up of an additional 1.7 million
sales.Three of the period’sTop 10 came from the major with Fun featuring Janelle’sMonae’s We Are Young placed second and fellow Atlantic releasesWhistle by Flo Rida and FeelThe Love by Rudimental featuring John Newman ninth and
10th.All this increased its market share over the 12 months from 13.2% to 15.8%, placing it third behind Universal and Sony. Admittedly not as dramatically asWarner,
Universal also outperformed the market with a 9.8% year-on-year increase or an additional 1.4 million sales as Carly Rae Jepsen,Alex Clare,Gotye
than the equivalent titles the year before. This was despite themarket as a wholemanaging to grow by 3.6 million units. It was a similar state of affairs
across the quarter’s Top 200 sellers. Although sales here were up, the year- on-year increase was significantly below the overallmarket rise – 3.4% compared to 8.3% – signifying that the majority of the growth that occurred in Q2 was down to increased retail activity away fromthe frontline tracks. Besides Rae Jepsen and Fun, the
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COMPILATIONS MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q2 10
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Q210 Q310 Q410 Q111 Q211 Q311 Q411 Q112 Q212
UNIVERSAL EMI SONY WARNER INDEPENDENTS
ALBUMS BY GROUP SHARE Universal 33.5%
Sony 15.3% EMI 14.4%
Warner 11.6%
XL Beggars 3.2% Ministry of Sound 2.5% Demon 1.4% Union Square 0.6% Domino 0.5% Cooking Vinyl 0.5%
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featuring Kimbra,NickiMinaj andTulisa gave it five of the period’s top half-dozen sellers. However, its market share remained exactly where it was the year before: 35.3%. Sony’s share eased year-on-year from
20.7% to 19.6% as its own singles sales rose 3.8% with Columbia releases R.I.P. by Rita Ora featuringTinieTempah andTrain’s Drive By its top sellers and EMI followed its market-defying albums increase by growing singles by 11.0%. This was 2.7 points more than the market overall and included Coldplay and Rihanna’s pairing Princess Of China and ConorMaynard’s first hit Can’t Say No. The independents saw their share of singles
TOP 10 SINGLES Q2 2012 POS
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top end of themarket’s new arrivals also took in debut hits fromAlex Clare (inset), Gotye (featuring Kimbra) and soloing Tulisa, as well as Columbia/Roc Nation’s Rita Ora with her R.I.P. single featuring Tinie Tempah. This oddly left Island act NickiMinaj as the relative veteran among the period’s top seven sellers, even though her own UK singles chart account opened less than two years ago. Asylum/Black Butter’s
Rudimental further added to the market’s freshness with their own debut hit Feel The Love featuring John Newman the
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TOTAL ALBUMS MARKET SHARE (%) SINCE Q2 10
10 15 20 25 30 35 40
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Q210 Q310 Q410 Q111 Q210 Q311 Q411 Q112 Q212
UNIVERSAL SONY WARNER EMI INDEPENDENTS
ALBUMS BY DISTRIBUTOR SHARE Arvato 40.5%
EMI 16.8% Universal 9.8% Sony 5.1%
Warner 4.2% PIAS Sony DADC 4.1% Sony DADC 3.2%
Proper 1.4% ADA Arvato 1.2% Beggars Group 1.1%
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squeezed to 14.7%, having stood at 16.8% the previous quarter,with the period’sTop 40 sellers exclusively made up of major repertoire. The highest-ranked indie title was placed 44th:DJ Fresh featuring Dizzee Rascal’sThe Power,which helpedMinistry of Sound (1.3%) edge out XL Beggars (1.2%) as the top
ABOVE Indie squeeze: DJ Fresh led the way in a slightly reduced quarter showing from independents
independent singles group. Singles sales for bothMoS and XL Beggars
were down on the year, but the indie sector collectively grew 5.2% year-on-year, even though it was having to compete against a Q2 12 months earlier which included Example’s chart-topping ChangedTheWay You KissedMe,Wretch 32’s Unorthodox and Adele’s multitude of hits.
Source: Official Charts Company CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call MeMaybe Interscope
FUNFEAT. JANELLE MONAEWe AreYoung Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen ALEX CLARE Too Close Island
GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To KnowIsland NICKI MINAJ Starships CashMoney/Island TULISA Young AATW/Island
RITA ORA FEAT. TINIE TEMPAH R.I.P. Columbia/Roc Nation TRAIN Drive By Columbia FLO RIDAWhistle Atlantic
10 RUDIMENTAL FEAT. JOHN NEWMAN Feel The Love Asylum/Black Butter
period’s 10th top seller and it was also part of a dominant share of the quarter’s Top 100 sellers by UK artists. Homegrown talent controlled 44.5% of the leading titles, compared to 37.5% for Americans, quite a turnaround fromexactly a year before whenMinistry of Sound’s Example in 10th place was the only British act whomanaged to get a look-in among the second quarter’s Top 10 sellers. Back then almost half (49%) of the 100 top tracks
came fromUS acts with the UK way behind in second place with 35%. BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor says:
“The industry has continued to invest hard in A&R and we’re seeing that on singles, particularly in pop, urban and dance with acts like Alex Clare and Rudimental. British labels are succeeding with new acts that appeal to the British public, particularly in these genres.” Genre-wise, themarket also became
slightlymore diverse than a year earlier, although pop spectacularly tightened its grip, increasing its share of the quarter’s Top 100 from38% to 45% thanks to the
likes of CallMeMaybe and fellow Interscope/Polydor actMaroon 5 whose Payphone featuringWiz Khalifa closed Q2 by debuting at number one. Alongside the pop onslaught, rock
continued tomount amodest comeback with nine out of the Top 100 sellers and,more impressively, two of the top four throughWe Are Young in second position and Island act Gotye featuring Kimbra’s fourth-ranked Somebody That I Used To Know, which surpassed 1million sales in the quarter. Unusually,MOR/easy listening and country
were also represented among the top sellers, both thanks to Gary Barlow (above). His Decca-issued Diamond Jubilee track Sing with the Commonwealth Band scoredMOR a rare chart-topper, while his cover performance of Need You Now with Cheryl Cole at the BuckinghamPalace concert gave a new lease of life to country superstars Lady Antebellum’s Parlophone original. The singlesmarket edged further closer
to becoming 100% digital in the first half of the year with just 0.3% of sales accounted for by physical. One-track downloads controlled around 98% of the sector, although digital bundles tripled their sales fromthe year before.
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