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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 31
ARTIST SINGLES Universal 37.6% Sony 20.6% Warner 25.6% EMI 13.2% Others 3%
DIGITAL VS 100
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Sony Music posts Q1 profit despite sharp falls Friday, August 3rd Digital radio now 40.8% of London listening share Friday, August 3rd Bring Me The Horizon sign major label deal Friday, August 3rd Streaming pays 'much more than radio' for some Beggars artists Friday, August 3rd Spotify tops 4m paying subscribers Friday, August 3rd
34.8% 64.8% PHYSICAL
34.3% 65.3%
33.8% 65.8% 32.1% 67.6%
32.7% 66.9%
WkS 27-31 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks
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ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 41.5% Warner 20.7% EMI 15.5% Sony 14% Others 8.3%
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Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you. This month’s Q Magazine holds the inside story of Blur’s
“glorious finale” which promises to star “Indy, Arty, Cheesy and…Dave”. Meanwhile, it’s Booze,
Betrayal, Drugs and Dwarves for The Darkness who reveal how they buried the hatchet. Inside, “Salvador Dali” of
standup Ross Noble is down on his farm in Kent and explains how he can afford his comfortable surroundings while riding his beloved Abbott FV433 “self- propelled gun”. He admits: “The only reason I get to live like this is from talking bollocks.” Calvin Harris declares his
favourite fact in the world is the one where Dizzee Rascal’s Dance Wiv Me made “shitloads of money”, despite record label XL “fucking hating it”. In the reviews pages, Bloc
YES: 21%
@JoeSchiavon Came up with this beauty on the way to work and thought I'd share it with you: What's Jay-Z and Kanye's favourite type of
seafood? Crayfish. (Joe Schiavon, Idle Hands Club) Tuesday, July 31
@neil_mccormick They say 60 % drop off in the Dark Knight box office is due to cinema shooting. Maybe it's just cos the movie's kinda long &
boring. (Neil McCormick, Daily Telegraph) Tuesday, July 31
@LaraKBaker I flipping love that Jessie Ware 'Wildest Moments' track. Beautiful. (Lara Baker, AIM) Wednesday, August 1
@DavidMoynihan i'm going to open a pop-up burger bar called "O'Limpet Burgers". (David Moynihan, Digital Spy)
Wednesday, August 1 no: 79%
@drumshop Just shipped out a loada drum gear to London for the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony. No big deal.
(Andy Anderson, Drum Shop) Wednesday, August 1
@rob_fitzpatrick Ghosts That We Knew from the new Mumford's album is beautiful, despite their parents all being considerably richer than ours.
Painful. True. (Rob Fitzpatrick, Spotify) Wednesday, August 1
@gary_lancaster I think there are more independent PR companies than there are unsigned bands. (Gary Lancaster, ADA Music)
Thursday, August 2
@example Just off to have my first ever singing lesson. About time really. Been blagging it for years (Example) Thursday, August 2
Party’s aptly named fourth album Four is “too diffuse and rough around the edges to qualify as a knockout comeback” says Dorian Lynskey, who gives it three stars out of five. Rob Fitzpatrick awards Plan B’s Ill Manors album four stars, calling it “lyrically dense and confrontational” but with music that’s “blissfully rich and spacious”.
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@mrasaunders So, Madonna who plays Moscow Tuesday could properly protest Pussy Riot's detention but chooses only to say "Im sorry they've
been arrested" (Andy Saunders, Velocity PR) Thursday, August 2
@GeoffLloyd I wish they'd invent a new name for Thai young coconut. Whenever I buy one I feel like a pervert.
(Geoff Lloyd, Absolute Radio) Thursday, August 2
@WillBlakeUK Today every "minority" in Britain delivered us medals showing just why our diverse multiculturalism is something to be
proud of not feared. (Will Blake, SJM/Vision Music Management) Saturday, August 4
@AziEftekhari We are ginger and muslim and mixed race so up yours, Daily Mail (Azi Eftekhari, Mercury Records)
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THEMAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
60m
Fans on Facebook means Eminem has more than any other musician - beating Lady Gaga and Rihanna to the record
89%
Of the adult (15+) UK population tuned into radio stations in the second
quarter of 2012 according to Rajar, up 100,000 adults on the previous quarter (Q1, 2012)
22% Of all global internet
bandwith is used for online piracy, according to NME
15m+
Active users and over 4 million subscribers boasted by popular music streaming
service Spotify as of August 1
1
Position on Forbes The Electronic Cash Kings list for Dutch DJ Tiësto with reported annual earnings of £14m. Skrillex pulls in around £9.7m a year.
26% Of Russians believe that
the members of Pussy Riot deserve a prison sentence of more than six months for performing an anti-
Putin "punk prayer" inside Moscow's main cathedral
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