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RAJARS: The latest official radio listening figures are out. Q2 headlines included Radio 2 keeping its listenership over the 14 million mark, Global’s Capital Network remaining steady, 1Xtra reaching an all-time high of 1.14m and Chris Moyles losing over 500,000 listeners year-on-year. Visit MusicWeek.com for more. THE ORCHARD: International independent music and video distribution company The Orchard has promoted Colleen Theis to COO – she was previously managing director of UK and Europe. HOP FARM: Vince Power’s Music Festivals PLC has admitted that its flagship UK festival made a loss this year. Hop Farm in Kent couldn’t match its Benacassim event in Spain, which turned a profit – but was down on the year before. MINISTRY: Ministry of Sound chairman James Palumbo has voiced his support for Universal's proposed £1.2bn buyout of EMI Music - as he reveals that he pleaded with Terra Firma not to acquire the Brit label in 2007. GLOBAL: The commercial radio firm has responded to a request from Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt that its £70m acquisition of Guardian Radio Group be investigated by Ofcom: "Global note, with interest, that the Secretary of State has asked Ofcom and the OFT for submissions on a public interest intervention following the recent acquisition of GMG Radio. "We have already submitted a detailed paper articulating our views and opinions on this subject to the relevant authorities." SABAN: Former Universal Music Publishing boss David Renzer has joined Saban as the company launches an acquisitive music publishing division. DEEZER: Warner Music Group owner Len Blavatnik has reportedly purchased a small stake in the Spotify rival, and is pushing for it to enter the US market. LADY GAGA: The singer has revealed the title of her upcoming fourth LP - ARTPOP. It is due for release next year. SHAZAM: Global Shazam customers have now used the tagging service to identify songs over five billion times. Shazam said its rapid expansion into television has given people new opportunities to use the app to engage with their favourite shows.


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.com ROLE CHANGE FOR SEAR, AUCHTERLONIE AND HILL DANNY KEENE EXITS


Demon Music Group restructures in UK I


LABELS  BY TIM INGHAM


ndie label family Demon Music Group has restructured, with a number of personnel


changes at the company. Demon, which is a division of


BBC Worldwide Consumer Products, says goodbye to sales and marketing director Danny Keene as part of the move. Keene has spent nearly two decades at the company in a variety of sales, marketing and product development roles. Meanwhile, catalogue


and TV director Colin Auchterlonie is given a new role, as UK sales director Brian Hill and commercial director Adrian Sear broaden their day- to-day responsibilities. Account management at


Demon in the UK will now be handled by the Consumer Products divisional sales team, covering sales of video product (DVD, Blu-ray and download),


licensed merchandise and music product. Demon said that the new arrangement would “allow the business to explore cross- format opportunities with customers and ensure we are more co-ordinated in taking our key brands to market”, adding that “a strengthened marketing unit and


marketing and digital activities. Sear is given a broader


commercial director role with responsibility for all licensing and acquisition activities as well as growing Demon’s international business. DMG’s UK physical sales now form part of the portfolio of responsibilities held by UK sales director Hill.


than ever to delight music fans with great new products that re- ignite their love for great music.” Demon’s flagship upcoming


release include expanded editions of Aztec Camera releases High Land Hard Rain and Knife later this month on Edsel, as well as a number of reissues of Steve Miller Band LPs on the same imprint. In September, Demon will


release The Ukuleles self-titled LP via DMG TV, as well as four other Aztec Camera expanded editions: Love and Stray on September 3 and Dreamland and Frestonia a week later. The firm will also release


the full integration of digital and physical product management mean DMG is now well placed to further build its digital and direct-to-consumer channels”. Auchterlonie takes on a new


role of product and marketing director, with responsibility for all product development as well as


DMG managing director


Stephen Davies, said “These changes allow Demon to continue its growth of new and exciting channels – digital, direct to consumer and international – whilst strengthening its presence in the core UK trade market. We are now even better equipped


Martine McCutcheon, Duran Duran, Yazoo Ike & Tina Turner, Billie and Hazell Dean double-CD Collection albums in September. Within its catalogue, Demon


boasts has more than 15 labels spanning genres, formats and price points. The firm announced last month that it has agreed a long license to represent US record label Tabu.


Guillemots challenge ‘outdated release model’ G


uillemots’ unusual plan to release four albums over six months is a way of


challenging an ‘outdated’ business model – and the band might do it again in future. Speaking to Music Week,


Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield talked about leaving Geffen at the end of last year with a desire to try something different. “Colin [Barlow] left and we


were asked ‘Would you like to demo new stuff for Universal?’” he said. “I think we all just felt that we wanted a clean break. They treated us well, we never had any shit from them, we just didn’t want to feel like we were dependent on anyone’s approval for anything.” Now without a label,


Guillemots plan to self-release through distribution company State 51 Conspiracy with the first of the four albums, Hello Land! already available both digitally and on CD. “It started as a digital thing


and [State 51 Conspiracy] said they were happy to stump up the


money to put it out on CD too,” said Dangerfield. “They’ve ended up becoming our record company in a way, but without actually being a record company. “They responded to the fact


that we were trying to challenge the model a little bit and that’s in line with their thinking too. “The old way of doing things


in the music business is becoming more and more redundant and I think that they really liked that challenge as well,” he added. Dangerfield said that the


quick-fire release concept came out of the frustration of the traditional release schedule, which is preceded by drawn-out promotional strategies. “It seems like a really


outdated way of thinking to me,” he said. “Get music out there. Who gives a fuck about it storming into the charts? Just get it out there and then play gigs, do stuff online and let people know it exists. “Why do I need to avoid releasing at a certain time


because Katy Perry’s album might be out?” When asked whether the


band could experiment further and perhaps even release a set of songs on a track-by-track basis, Dangerfield responded positively. “Yeah there are all kinds of


ways of doing things,” he said. “The important thing is realising our liberation - that there aren’t rules. I think it was just that we are people that really like the album as a format.” However, Dangerfield hasn’t


necessarily turned his back on the traditional label set-up, suggesting that he could return for his next solo LP.


“I definitely wouldn’t rule out


[a traditional label deal] but I think I’d be much more likely to go back on a one album deal,” he said. “I’ll probably make another solo record next year and maybe that’ll be something I want to do with a label, maybe not. I don’t know.” “In future, I imagine that


people will almost license their records out to a company for an album rather than signing to a company for six albums or whatever,” Dangerfield added. “I wouldn’t want to do that, I


wouldn’t want to be committed. I’d rather work one album at a time.”


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