Music Week August 3rd 2012

16 Music Week 03.08.12 BUSINESSANALYSIS EUROPE

PAN-EUROPEAN POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL

1 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal

2 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA Titanium EMI 3 TRAIN Drive By Sony

4 RIHANNA FEAT. CALVIN HARRIS We Found Love Universal

5 AVICII Levels Universal 6 MAROON 5 FEAT. CHRISTINA

AGUILERA Moves Like Jagger Universal

7 ADELE Someone Like You XL Beggars 8 MICHEL TELO Ai Se Eu Te Pego Various

9 FLO RIDA FEAT. SIA Wild Ones Warner

10 JESSIE J Domino Universal Gotye

ITALY POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL

1 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal

2 YOUNG THE GIANT Cough Syrup Warner 3 COLDPLAY Charlie Brown EMI

4 EMELI SANDÉ Next To Me EMI 5 TRAIN Drive By Sony

EUROPEAN AIRPLAY FOCUS  BY PAUL WILLIAMS

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otye quietly started his European invasion last summer when Somebody That I Used To Know topped the sales charts in the

Netherlands and his native Belgium. However, by the mid-point of this year it had become a substantial retail hit in every major market. That domination also spread to the airwaves

where the Universal release comprehensively finished as Europe’s top radio song over the first six months of 2012 with a 72% bigger audience than its closest challenger, according to Nielsen Music data.

Although kept from the top of the mid-year

chart in the UK by Jessie J’s Domino, Somebody That I Used To Know emerged as the half-year’s leading radio track in the likes of Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark and Ireland, while runner-up in Norway and placed fourth in France and the Netherlands. Helped by its huge UK popularity, EMI act

David Guetta’s Titanium featuring Sia was Europe’s second top radio hit up to the end of June, narrowly outscoring Sony act Train’s Drive By in third place. Titanium was the UK’s fifth most-heard track of the half year, eighth in Sweden and ninth in both Italy and Spain where it was outplayed by his Without You hit featuring Usher. In Guetta’s home territory of France Turn Me On with Nicki Minaj proved to be a bigger radio favourite than Titanium, finishing second on the mid-year rankings behind Universal act Minaj’s own fronted smash Starships. The 11th biggest download seller of the period

across Europe, Train’s Drive By was even more popular at radio, finishing in third place overall and topping the mid-year airplay chart in the Netherlands, coming second in both Denmark and

Switzerland and fifth in Italy. Drive By was one of eight tracks in Europe’s

mid-year radio Top 20 by US artists. This compared to 10 in the same period’s sales Top 20 with the Train track, Warner singles Wild Ones by Flo Rida and We Are Young by Fun featuring Janelle Monae, Minaj’s Starships and the Sony-issued Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) by Kelly Clarkson registering in both countdowns. UK acts fared slightly better among Europe’s

airplay elite in the first half of the year than at retail, supplying five of the 20 most-heard tracks; three of the half-year’s 20 biggest-selling downloads were British. European radio’s favourite UK track over the period was XL Beggars act Adele’s Someone Like You, which ranked seventh overall, led the listings in Spain, was second in Sweden and seventh in Norway, while the Universal releases Domino by Jessie J and Hangover by Taio Cruz featuring Flo Rida were 10th and 15th respectively. Two EMI acts completed the British line-up: Coldplay with Paradise in 16th place and Emeli Sande’s Next To Me 18th.

On German radio Sony’s Olly Murs matched

his position on the half-year sales chart by finishing in second place with Heart Skips A Beat, while it was placed third in Switzerland.

Germany was also one of a number of territories

to give strong support to London-born Marlon Roudette who is little known back home outside some airplay support by the likes of Radio 2, but was a big star on parts of the continent with his band Mattafix. He has since followed this with some solo success, including with the Universal track Anti Hero (Brave New World) which was ninth on Germany’s mid-year radio chart and 10th in Switzerland, while his cut New Age was the top UK track on French radio, ranking third for the half-year, and was 11th in Switzerland. In Italy UK acts enjoyed a far warmer welcome

from radio programmers than download buyers. While Someone Like You was the only British track to make the mid-year download Top 20, there were six UK releases in the equivalent airplay Top 20, led by EMI cuts Charlie Brown by Coldplay in third place and Next To Me by Emeli Sande fourth, while Sony act Kasabian’s Goodbye Kiss was sixth. Among the other Brits making strong impacts in individual territories was Ed Sheeran whose The A Team was the second most-heard track in the Netherlands between January and June. The same country gave an encouraging response to fellow Warner act Birdy with People Help The People 10th and Skinny Love 15th on the half-year chart.

Young The Giant

Stefanie Heinzman

SPAIN POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL

1 ADELE Someone Like You XL Beggars 2 GYM CLASS HEROES FEAT.

3 ESTOPA Me Quedare Sony

4 RIHANNA FEAT. CALVIN HARRIS We Found Love Universal

5 MAROON 5 FEAT. CHRISTINA AGUILERA Moves Like Jagger Universal ADAM LEVINE Stereo Hearts Warner

SWITZERLAND POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL

1 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal

2 TRAIN Drive By Sony

3 OLLY MURS FEAT. RIZZLE KICKS Heart Skips A Beat Sony

4 MICHEL TELO Ai Se Eu Te Pego Universal

5 STEFANIE HEINZMAN Diggin’ In The Dirt Universal

Nicki Minaj

Aura Dione

FRANCE POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL

1 NICKI MINAJ Starships Universal

2 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. NICKI MINAJ Turn Me On EMI

3 MARLON ROUDETTE New Age Universal

4 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal

5 PITBULL FEAT. CHRIS BROWN International Love Sony

GERMANY POS ARTIST/ ALBUM / LABEL

1 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Universal

2 OLLY MURS FEAT. RIZZLE KICKS Heart Skips A Beat Sony

3 AURA DIONE FEAT. ROCK MAFIA Friends Universal

4 SILBERMOND Himmel Auf Sony 5 ADELE Someone Like You XL Beggars

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