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Source, all tables and graphs: Nielsen Music
TOP 20 UK HIT SONGWRITERS Q2 2012 POS SONGWRITER(S) Publisher(s)
01 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS EMI 02 COLDPLAY Universal 03 THE INVISIBLE MEN* SONY ATV, Universal 04 RUDIMENTAL Sony/ATV 05= ALEX CLARE PURE Groove/Universal 05= JIM DUGUID Warner/Chappell 07 ED SHEERAN Sony/ATV 08 WAYNE HECTOR Warner/Chappell 09= GARY BARLOW Sony/ATV 09= ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Really Useful 11 EMELI SANDE EMI 12 TIMOTHY MCKENZIE AKA LABRINTH EMI 13 JESSICA CORNISH AKA JESSIE J Sony/ATV 14 DANIEL STEIN AKA DJ FRESH Bucks 15= LORNE ALI TENNANT BMG Chrysalis 15= RICHARD RAWSON AKA FAZER Sony/ATV 17 MARCUS KILLIAN CC 18= ELLIOTT CLEAVE AKA EXAMPLE Universal 18= ALEX SMITH Universal
20 STEVE MAC BMG Chrysalis *Jonathan Shave is from the UK, George Astasio and Jason Pebworth from the US The chart above shows the top UK hit songwriters of Q2 2012 based on shares of the UK’s 100- biggest selling singles of the quarter Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
Marina & The Diamonds and Flo Rida’s Good Feeling. He finishes ninth on the songwriters chart, while Kobalt’s Canadian writer/producer Henry Walter aka Cirkut is 20th having been credited on all those tracks apart from Part Of Me and Price Tag. Pure Groove/Universal’s Alex Clare and
Warner/Chappell’s Jim Duguid share 10th position having co-written Clare’s Too Close, the quarter’s third most popular single with 387,813 copies sold. They are among 15 homegrown talents figuring in the songwriters chart Top 50, down from 16 in Q1, with the list also including now regular Ed Sheeran in 16th position. The Sony/ATV signing had his hand in five of the period’s 100 biggest singles, most successfully Small Bump, while two places below him Warner/Chappell’s Wayne Hector had a very profitable quarter thanks to his contributions to Nicki Minaj’s Starships, Paloma Faith’s Picking Up The Pieces and Cover Drive’s Sparks. Sing, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first chart-topping
single since No Matter What for Boyzone back in 1998, takes him to joint 23rd on the songwriters countdown with its co-writer Gary Barlow. Although the Sony/ATV and Really Useful tune was specially
Q2 2012 TOP ALBUMS SONGWRITERS POS SONGWRITER(S) Publisher(s)
01 ED SHEERAN Sony/ATV 02 KEANE Universal 03 COLDPLAY Universal 04 BEE GEES UNIVERSAL, Warner/Chappell 05 EMELI SANDE EMI 06 JACK WHITE EMI 07 WALTER DE BACKER AKA GOTYE Kobalt 08 ADELE Universal 09 BEN HOWARD Warner/Chappell 10 ALABAMA SHAKES CC 11 LANA DEL REY EMI 12 TIMOTHY MCKENZIE AKA LABRINTH EMI 13 ONIKA MARAJ AKA NICKI MINAJ Universal 14 JESSIC CORNISH AKA JESSIE J Sony/ATV 15 PALOMA FAITH Universal 16 SHAHID KHAN AKA NAUGHTY BOY Sony/ATV 17 RIZZLE KICKS BMG Chrysalis 18 PAUL EPWORTH EMI 19 JUSTIN PARKER Sony/ATV
20 DAN WILSON BMG Chrysalis The above chart shows top album songwriters of Q2 2012 based on shares of Top 20 artist albums of the quarter Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
written to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, its appearance came four years after Barlow wrote a little- known song of the same name with Nicholas Battle and Eliot Kennedy, who curiously ended up as one of the producers of the Jubilee track. In a period in which his first album Electronic
Earth was released, EMI’s Labrinth makes it to 28th place. The same album is also responsible for the appearance in 19th place of veteran US soul and funk man Charles Wright thanks to a new interpretation of his much-covered Warner/Chappell copyright Express Yourself. Labrinth’s version sold nearly 150,000 copies in the quarter. Also subject to a hit cover version was Maroon 5’s
Payphone, although it happened before the original itself had charted thanks to a hold-back policy by the record company to build up demand. The cash-in cover by Precision Tunes was the quarter’s 91st top seller, while Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa’s original ranked 16th. Sales of the two versions help to take one of its co-writers, Kobalt’s Shellback, up to 12th position on the songwriters chart, and he also had a hand in Sean Paul’s She Doesn’t Mind, Usher’s Scream and Payphone’s predecessor Moves Like Jagger.
BECOME UK’S TOP ALBUM SONGWRITER OF QUARTER TWO 2012
Sheeran’s album sales lagged behind Adele’s in Q2 - but his
songwriting share was No.1
of the 13 cuts of his solo debut Blunderbuss and Kobalt’s Gotye whose Making Mirrors was almost totally his own work, although Somebody That I Used To Know uses a sample by the late Brazilian artist Luiz Bonfa. The pair are sixth and seventh on the album songwriters chart, while Warner/Chappell’s Ben Howard is ninth with all but one of his album Every Kingdom’s tracks written alone and unpublished. Alabama Shakes are 10th. Paloma Faith’s second album Fall To Grace was
Naughty Boy, is 16th with her Stellar Songs/EMI colleague Labrinth 12th after his first album sold 85,948 copies in the quarter. Most of the names making up the albums
songwriters chart’s Top 10 are artists who wrote most, if not all of their albums themselves. They include EMI-published Jack White who penned 12
released in the quarter and included contributions from three of the co-writers of Adele’s 21: Greg Wells, Eg White and Dan Wilson. While Universal-published Faith is 15th on this songwriters chart after co-writing 11 of her album’s 12 tracks, BMG Chrysalis’s Wilson ranks 20th with his score comprising Don’t You Remember, One And Only and Someone Like You for Adele.
TOP 50 HIT SONGWRITERS Q2 2012 POS SONGWRITER(S) Publisher(s)
01 FUN Warner/Chappell 02 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS EMI 03= CARLY RAE JEPSEN CC 03= JOSHUA RAMSAY CC 05 COLDPLAY Universal 06 THE INVISIBLE MEN Sony/ATV, Universal 07 RUDIMENTAL Sony/ATV 08 PATRICK MONAHAN EMI 09 LUKASZ GOTTWALD AKA DR LUKE Kobalt 10= ALEX CLARE PURE Groove/Universal 10= JIM DUGUID Warner/Chappell 12 KARL SCHUSTER AKA SHELLBACK Kobalt 13 ESPIONAGE (AMUND BJORKLUND, ESPEN LIND) EMI 14= WALTER DE BACKER AKA GOTYE Kobalt 14= LUIZ BONFA Carlin 16 ED SHEERAN Sony/ATV 17 JEFFREY BHASKER Sony/ATV 18 WAYNE HECTOR Warner/Chappell 19 CHARLES WRIGHT Warner/Chappell 20 MARTIN SANDBERG AKA MAX MARTIN Kobalt 21 HENRY WALTER AKA CIRKUT Kobalt 22 SIA FURLER EMI 23= GARY BARLOW Sony/ATV 23= ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Really Useful 25 EMELI SANDE EMI 26 TRAMAR DILLARD AKA FLO RIDA Sony/ATV 27 JASON MRAZ Fintage 28 TIMOTHY MCKENZIE AKA LABRINTH EMI 29 JESSICA CORNISH AKA JESSIE J Sony/ATV 30 SHAFFER SMITH AKA NE-YO 31 DANIEL STEIN AKA DJ FRESH BUCKS xxx 32 JOHN STEPHENS AKA JOHN LEGEND BMG Chrysalis 33 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA Universal 34 STEFAN GORDY Global Talent 35= PETER IBSEN EMI 35= LORNE ALI TENNANT BMG Chrysalis 35= RICHARD RAWSON AKA FAZER Sony/ATV 38 ESTHER DEAN Universal 39= AZEALIA BANKS Sony/ATV 39= JEF MARTENS Bucks 41 DAVID GUETTA What A Publishing 42= CARL FALK BMG Chrysalis 42= RAMI YACOUB Kobalt 44 SONNY MOORE AKA SKRILLEX Kobalt 45 ONIKA MARAJ AKA NICKI MINAJ Universal 46 BROOK BENTON Sony/ATV 47 GIORGIO TUINFORT Bucks 48 TAVISH CROWE CC 49 LMFAO GLOBAL Talent
50 MICHAEL NATTER CC The above chart shows the top hit songwriters of Q2 based on shares of the UK’s 100 biggest- selling singles of the quarter
Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Fun Q2’s top hit songwriters following nearly 670,000 sales of We Are Young 2011 champ Calvin Harris up to second place on back of hits for Cheryl Cole and Rihanna and his own solo success Dr Luke claims unrivalled seven co-writes of quarter’s Top 100 biggest singles UK writers occupy 15 places in songwriters Top 50, those from the US 17, continental Europe 10, seven from the rest of the world and there is one dual nationality Ed Sheeran Q2’s top albums songwriter as Adele drops from first to eighth place
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