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Source, all tables and graphs: Nielsen Music
FRANCE POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL
1 MICHEL TELO Ai Se Eu Te Pego Universal
2 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal
3 LANA DEL REY Video Games Universal 4 SEXION D’ASSAUT Avant Quelle Parte
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5 LYKKE LI Follow Rivers Warner 6 SHAKIRA Je L’aime A Mourir Sony
7 IRMA I Know Warner 8 ADELE Someone Like You XL Beggars 9 CARLY RAE JEPSEN
Call Me Maybe Universal 10 TAL Le Sens De La Vie Warner
GERMANY POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL
1 MICHEL TELO Ai Se Eu Te Pego Universal 2 OLLY MURS FEAT. RIZZLE KICKS
Heart Skips A Beat Sony
3 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal
4 SEAN PAUL She Doesn’t Mind Warner 5 DIE TOTEN HOSEN Tage Wie Diese JKP 6 ALEX CLARE Too Close Universal
7 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call Me Maybe Universal
8 DJ ANTOINE FEAT. THE BEAT SHAKERS Ma Cherie Global Productions
9 CRO Easy Chimperator 10 OF MONSTERS AND MEN
Little Talks UNiversal
overall across Europe with 2.0 million copies sold. The UK contributed around half this tally. France remained Europe’s third biggest digital
music territory, although Nielsen reports a growth of just 3.0% to 19.6 million, less than one-tenth of the increase that happened in Germany, Italy and Spain. As a consequence, sales of its top seller – Ai Se Eu Te Pego – were only around 40% of what the same track sold to top Germany’s half-year chart. Switzerland overtook Italy last year to rise to
fourth place in the rankings and it continued in that position in the opening six months of 2011, although was ahead by fewer than 100,000 sales. The Swiss market grew by 24.7% to 9.6 million, but the annual rise was much faster in Italy (33.5%) where it matched France by having Michel Telo and Gotye’s hits as its two top sellers. Like France, there was only a marginal (2.5%)
sales rise in Denmark where 4.6 million units were sold, although it moved ahead of Belgium, which experienced a 5.1% drop, the only one of Europe’s Top 10 digital markets to go into reverse.
ITALY POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL
1 MICHEL TELO Ai Se Eu Te Pego Universal
2 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal
3 ARISA La Notte Warner
4 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA Titanium EMI 5 FRANCESCA MICHIELIN Distratto Sony 6 ALEX CLARE Too Close Universal
7 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call Me Maybe Universal
8 DJ ANTOINE FEAT. THE BEAT SHAKERS Ma Cherie Global Productions
9 CRO Easy Chimperator 10 OF MONSTERS AND MEN
Little Talks Universal Twelve months ago it was Spain which was the
only main territory heading downwards, with the 2.7 % drop reflecting it having fallen out of the IFPI’s Top 10 markets in 2010 for all recorded music sales on the back of its severe piracy issues. However, the Spanish one-track digital market bounced back spectacularly in the first six months of 2012 with a 37.5% rise lifting sales to 4.1 million units and taking Spain from 10th to ninth position in the rankings. Ahead of it, the Dutch singles sector grew
22.3% on the year to 4.2 million units, while Norway dropped from eighth to 10th place as its 4.1% year-on-year rise was outpaced by those of the Netherlands and Spain. Among Europe’s other music markets, several posted double-digit percentage growths with Finland up 35.1%, Portugal rising 33.6%, Austria improving by 24.2% and Ireland growing by 11.4%. Universal claimed half of the period’s 20 biggest
sellers, including having Gotye at No.1, while Flo Rida supplied three of Warner’s five tracks, and there were three EMI cuts and two from Sony.
NATIONALITY FOCUS EUROPE’S MUSICAL MELTING POT
Mainland European music fans looked increasingly beyond the UK and US in 2012’s first half as the biggest hits became more geographically diverse. Although half the period’s 20 top-selling one-track downloads across the whole of Europe came from the States, according to Nielsen Music data, a higher number of the leading titles originated from either the continent or the rest of the world compared to in 2011. This was particularly true on the top-
sellers lists for individual territories where artists from the US and, especially the UK, won fewer slots and non-Anglo/American repertoire prospered more. The more adventurous tastes were
typified by Brazilian singer-songwriter Michel Telo whose track Ai Se Eu Te Pego became a big hit across the whole of mainland Europe, although has yet to chart in the UK. Having topped the weekly charts in a number of territories, including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, it finished as the second top-selling download overall during the first six months of the year with 1.4 million units sold. It was the period’s top seller in Germany,
France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland and only missed out to Somebody That I Used To Know by Universal act Gotye featuring Kimbra on becoming the pan-European number one because of its lack of UK sales. Gotye’s mega hit outsold Telo’s track by 45.5% as it clocked up 2.1 million sales across the quarter. With Telo second, Universal’s new Canadian star Carly Rae Jepsen third with Call Me Maybe (1.3 million sales) and Frenchman David Guetta’s EMI-issued Titanium featuring Sia fourth with 1.1 million sales, the half-year’s top four included no acts from either the States or the UK. US artists made their presence felt lower
down the rankings, led in fifth place by Fun. featuring Janelle Monae’s We Are Young, which sold 1.1 million copies, fellow Warner act Flo Rida who provided three of the Top 20, Universal’s Nicki Minaj, LMFAO, Lana Del Rey and Maroon 5 and Sony’s Train and Kelly Clarkson, but they were largely overrun by tracks from Europe and the rest of the world when it came to the top sellers in individual territories. This was particularly true in France where
Icelandic six-piece Of Monsters And Men
UK FOCUS SPLENDID ISOLATION FOR BRITS
Olly Murs scored one of Germany’s biggest hits in 2012’s opening half, but it was a rare example of British success on the continent. The Sony artist’s Heart Skips A
Beat featuring Rizzle Kicks was the market’s second top seller with 357,000 units shifted, according to Nielsen, although it did not sell enough to make it into the period’s pan-European Top 20. Only three of the Top 20
Europe-wide sellers were by UK acts: Jessie J in ninth place with Domino and fellow Universal act Alex Clare 10th with Too Close, while EMI’s Emeli Sande was 12th with Next To Me. The British presence in some individual territories was even lower, perhaps reflective of the pan-European countdown being dominated by sales from the UK. In France and Spain XL Beggars act Adele’s 2011 hit Someone Like You was the only UK act in the half-year Top 10, finishing
Olly Murs
sixth and eighth respectively, while it was the highest-ranking British hit in Italy, placed 14th. The picture in Germany was slightly better with Murs joined by Alex Clare in sixth place with Too Close and the Universal-issued There She Goes by Taio Cruz 16th, while Birdy claimed two of the Dutch Top 20, which also welcomed her Warner colleague Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande. There were no UK tracks in the six-monthly Swedish and Danish Top 20s, while in neighbouring Norway the British contingent comprised EMI act Coldplay’s Paradise and two 2011 Adele singles.
BREAKDOWN OF EUROPEAN ONE-T 2012 2012 / 2011 FIGURES
UK 44.3% / 46.7% GERMANY 18.6% / 16.0% FRANCE 10.1% / 11.1% SWITZ. 5.0% / 4.5% ITALYTALY 4.9% / 4.2% OTHERS 17.1% / 17.5%
just four of the half year’s Top 20 were US hits, compared to eight across the whole of 2011. French acts made up a quarter of the chart, led by indie label Wati B’s rap group Sexion D’Assaut in fourth place with Avant Qu’elle Parte, while the cosmopolitan mix included 10 different nationalities among the Top 10 sellers, among them a Swede (Warner’s Lykke Li), Colombian (Sony’s Shakira), Cameroonian (Warner act Irma) and Israeli (Warner’s Tal). Germany’s biggest download hits
between January and June were almost as geographically spread with two homegrown acts (indie acts Tage Wie Diese and Cro) joined in the Top 10 sellers by the likes of Universal’s Icelandic band Of Monsters And Men (left) and Swiss act DJ Antoine who is signed to indie Global Productions. Among the leading markets Sweden had the greatest domination of homegrown acts among its top sellers, occupying 12 of the half-year Top 20. This was led by its Eurovision winner Loreen with Euphoria and also included Sony act Moa Lignell who finished third in the 2011 season of the local Idol TV show. There were also strong domestic presences in other parts of Scandinavia. Eight of Denmark’s Top 20 across the six months came from local acts with Copenhagen Records’ Danish-Irish artist Lukas Graham providing two of the period’s top five sellers, while Norwegian hip hop act Vinni claimed two of Norway’s top five. Eight of Spain’s Top 20 for the half year
were homegrown releases with EMI’s Latin Grammy nominated Pablo Alboran in third and fourth places with Te He Echado De Menos and Perdoname (Con Carminho), while Warner artist La Notte led a spread of eight local acts on Italy’s half-year Top 20.
BREAKDOWN OF EUROPEAN ONE-TRACK DIGITAL SALES, MID- TA AL 2011 TRACK DIGITAL SALES, MID-YEAR
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