4MusicWeek 13.07.12 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
T IN THE PARK: Approximately 85,000 festival-goers attended last weekend’s (July 6-8) Scottish three- day event.Talking points included a headline set fromThe Stone Roses which BBCTVwere asked not to broadcast by the band. ROUNDER RECORDS: The Brighton indiemusic retailer is to shut this month after 46 years in business. The store, located in Brighton Square, has blamed "basic economics" for the closure. BLOC: The organisers of London's Bloc Festival have issued a statement to punters - containing an apology - after the eventwas suddenly cancelled on its first day. Police have blamed theweather, but customers reported over-crowding and rushed barriers. MINDER: The legal action by Cavalcade Records Ltd t/aMinder Records, an associate company of MinderMusic, againstHHOMulti- Media Ltd is set to be heard on October
31.The claimis forHHO’s alleged infringement ofMinder’s recording ofThe Blues by Python Lee Jackson featuring Rod Stewart. PAUL McCARTNEY: The ex-Beatle has announced that he isworkingwith Bungie, the video games developer known primarily for the creation of Xbox’s flagshipHalo series.
60TH ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITY IN FULL SWINGWITHALBUMAND TV SHOW Official Charts 60th celebrations
take flight – with more to come EVENTS BY TIMINGHAM
T
he celebrations surrounding this year’s 60th anniversary of the
Official Singles Chart have begun in earnest,with a brand new Now! compilation on shelves and a three-part primetime ITV show under way – and the Official Charts Company isn’t stopping there. EMITV,UMTV and the
Official Charts Company teamed up to launch the NowThat’s What I Call A No.1 this week, comprising 60 chart-topping singles from60 years of the Official Singles Chart – including a total of
31million-sellers.The albumalso coincides with ITV’s three-part programme,The Nation’s Favourite NumberOne
Single.The first instalment went out at 9pmon Sunday ( July 8), with the final two parts going out on Saturday and Sunday night this coming weekend ( July 14/15). The list has been compiled
froman online poll organised by ITV and supported by the Official Charts Company,
OfficialCharts.com, and the Daily Mirror – with the voting opening again this weekend, allowing viewers to decide on the finalTop
PRINCE: The global superstar (above) has severed his dealwith UniversalMusic Publishing in a mutual agreementwith the music company. BPI: Scott Cohen has been added to theDesignated Indie Representatives of the BPI Council following the trade association’s 2012 AGM,withAdrian Sear exiting. KEITH GRANT: Themuch-loved recording engineer,mostwell-known for his years atOlympic, has passed away.His funeral is to be held today (July 13) and a relatedmusic compilation is being organised in hismemory.
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The ultimate hit parade? The public is voting on a final list of 10 No.1s to find the nation’s favourite – to be broadcast on ITV1. Left: the new Now! compilation
10 right the way up to the end of Saturday night’s show. The final 10 tracks that are
being opened to voting are:Abba’s DancingQueen,Adele’s Someone Like You,Britney Spears’…Baby OneMoreTime, John Lennon’s Imagine,KylieMinogue’s Can’t Get YouOutOfMyHead, Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, Oasis’sDon’t Look Back In Anger,Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody,The Beatles’Hey Jude andWhitneyHouston’s IWill Always Love You. Meanwhile, as reported last
week, a new streamingmusic app byMusicQubed with theOfficial Charts Company has launched onmillions of Samsung mobile handsets. OfficialChartsCompany
managing directorMartinTalbot said: “Fromthe start of the year, we wanted tomake sure that we used our ‘60 Years of theOfficial
SinglesChart’celebrations to promotemusic asmuch as possible,while also helping demonstrate how theOfficial Chart services continue to evolve. Some 4.5 hours of ITV primetime certainly delivers on the former, and theMusicQubed service places theOfficial SinglesChartTop 40 in consumers’pockets for the first time in its history. “This week’s
activity represents a real stepping-up ahead of the anniversary in November – over the comingmonths,we will also announce details of a Parliamentary reception and the launch of a new book TheMillion Sellers.” The newOmnibus book will feature the stories behind every
one of the 120million-plus selling singles to date. A Parliamentary reception is
“Fromthe start of the
year,wewanted tomake sure thatwe used our ‘60 Years of the Official
Singles Chart’ celebrations to promotemusic as much as possible”
MARTIN TALBOT, OFFICIAL CHARTS
being organised in partnership with UKMusic, the BPI and ERA for the anniversary week, fromNovember 10 to 18. Celebrations have already included a Radio 1 countdown of the biggest-selling singles of the millennium, a Radio 2 countdown of the biggest singles artists of all time and a Guardian rundown of the greatest number
one fromevery year. Meanwhile, the new
OfficialCharts.comconsumer site boasted its strongestmonth ever in June,with unique visitors up to 680,000 (up 82% year-on-year).
Live on the ocean wave: cruise-ship festival to launch
Offshore Festival, billed as the firstmusic festival to be held on a luxury cruise ship,will launch in September 2013. Setting sail fromVenice on
September 21 and returning on September 28, 2,500 guestswill be able towitness 18 bands playing across five venues, alongside 12DJs and 12 comedians aboard the Norwegian Jade. Aswell as two full festival
days at sea the shipwill stop off atDubrovnik (Croatia), Piraeus (Athens,Greece), Izmir (Ephesus,Turkey) and Split (Croatia) for four days of shore
excursions.The ship boasts
Stage diving of a different kind: the venue for next year’s Offshore Festival
themud. Guests can expect the line-up
to include actswho have graced the stages at big festivals aswell as household names in comedy. McKean said: “We’re
“premiumhotel-style accommodation”with tickets ranging from£1,999 to £5,000 per person including entertainment and food. Festival founderKaren
McKean –who has co-managed SnowPatrol during a 20-year music career – said: “In all the
years that I’ve had in themusic industry I’ve always looked for something that’s a bit of a different experience. “This is verymuch aimed at
peoplewho don’t feel that they are getting too old to go to festivals but do feel that they are too old to be trekking through
basicallywanting to take the whole experience that youwould have at any bigUKfestival but put it in a very intimate setting. Just because there’s only 2,500 people doesn’tmean that there’s going to be smaller acts. “Youwould expect to see
some of our names in headlining slots in front of 50–60,000 people at someUKfestivals.” The line-upwill be
announced on September 4.
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