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OFFICIAL UK RADIO AIRPLAY CHART TOP 20 Q2 2012 POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Carly Rae Jepsen’s (left) Call Me Maybe top airplay track of Q2 with audience of 773 million UK acts provide 51 of 100 biggest radio hits of Q2 compared to 44.5% of Top 100 sellers Universal claims 38 of Top 100 tracks, almost matching second- and third-placed Sony and Warner combined Rudimental’s Feel The Love most-played track at both Radio 1 and 1 Xtra Paloma Faith’s Picking Up The Pieces is Radio 2’s favourite and Capital leads with Jessie J’s Domino
1 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call Me Maybe Interscope/Polydor 4 NICKI MINAJ Starships Cash Money/Island
5 GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Island 6 EMELI SANDE Next To Me Virgin
7 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA Titanium Positiva/Virgin 8 THE WANTED Chasing The Sun Global Talent/Island 9 TRAIN Drive By Columbia 10 TULISA Young AATW/Island
11 JESSIE J FEAT. DAVID GUETTA Laserlight Island/Lava 12 CHERYL Call My Name Polydor
13 COLDPLAY & RIHANNA Princess Of China Parlophone 14 KATY PERRY Part Of Me Virgin
15 DAVID GUETTA FEAT. NICKI MINAJ Turn Me On Positiva/Virgin 16 JASON MRAZ I Won’t Give Up Atlantic
17 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) RCA 18 RITA ORA FEAT. TINIE TEMPAH RIP Roc Nation/Columbia 19 EMELI SANDE My Kind Of Love Virgin
20 CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. NE-YO Let’s Go Columbia
featuring John Newman as the overall top track. Columbia/Roc Nation’s single R.I.P. by Rita Ora
featuring Tinie Tempah and Def Jam/Mercury act Where Have You Been by Rihanna were also in both stations’ quarter-end Top 10s, but Radio 1 also welcomed such pop fare as We Are Young and Call Me Maybe and Glasgow alternative rock band Twin Atlantic’s Make A Beast Of Myself enough to make it its sixth most-played track of the quarter, despite the Red Bull label track not charting. Twin Atlantic were one of several developing rock bands
2 FUN FEAT. JANELLE MONAE We Are Young Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen 609,219 3 JESSIE J Domino Island/Lava
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Source: Nielsen Music
AUDIENCE OCC R1 773,106
3 2
574,744 32 92 548,842 485,533
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476,881 33 452,076 22
8 6
431,369 29 44 420,030 409,996
19 409,837 14 26
46 38
R2 CAP HRT ABS 6MSC 1XTRA KISS XFM REAL SMOOTH 3
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39 57 29 17
10
37 80 20 4
15 10
403,655 11 25 55 22 394,759 18 21 26 32 392,823 26 57 391,184 37 16 377,168 25 376,233 57 370,899
7 4
369,504 41 37 369,207 15 12
given enthusiastic backing by the BBC station over the three months with others winning support including Polydor’s five-piece London band Spector, indie label Live Forever’s Young Guns and Transgressive alternative act Pulled About By Horses from Leeds. Fifty-seven of Radio 1’s Q2 Top 100 were by UK acts, compared to 50 of Radio 2’s and 41 of Capital’s. However, Radio 1’s focus on new UK bands has
come at the expense of the likes of Island’s Keane who were overlooked by the station in Q2. Silenced
ABOVE Airplay v sales: The UK radio airplay Top 20 for Q2 2012 based on audience size. The table also highlights where each track is ranked on the Official Charts Company Q2 2012 sales chart and selected individual stations’ quarter- end charts, based on number of plays
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By The Night, the lead-off track from their chart- topping Strangeland album, was nowhere among the station’s Top 100 tracks of the quarter and instead had to rely on the support of Radio 2, where it finished an impressive third in the rankings to match its position at Absolute Radio and also won friends at XFM and Real. The desertion of Radio 1was also something
suffered by Polydor’s Scissor Sisters whose Only The Horses ranked sixth at Radio 2 but was missing completely from the other BBC network’s listings.
SMOOTH AND REAL GLOBAL ACQUIRES SOME SURPRISINGLY CONTEMPORARY STATIONS
SMOOTH/REAL RADIO TOP 5s Q2 2012 POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
SMOOTH AND REAL RADIO became Global’s latest acquisitions in Q2 and what it is inheriting are two brands more musically contemporary than you might imagine. Smooth has been broadcasting on a
quasi-national platform since October 2010 after the output of its five previous regional services amalgamated, while Real comprises five stations based respectively in the North East, North West, Central Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire. The two brands are being run separately
from Global at present as competition authorities examine the takeover and both are described musically as adult contemporary, although at different ends of the spectrum. And in each case their output plays more
WILL YOUNG Losing Myself RCA REBECCA FERGUSON Glitter & Gold RCA
LADY ANTEBELLUM Dancin’ Away With My Heart Parlophone JASON MRAZ I Won’t Give Up Atlantic MARLON ROUDETTE New Age Warner Bros
CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call Me Maybe Interscope/Polydor TRAIN Drive By Columbia
FUN FEAT. JANELLE MONAE We Are Young Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen OLLY MURS Oh My Goodness Epic
GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Island
current or recent music than their respective nearest commercial radio competitors, which in Smooth’s case is Bauer’s Magic, while Real Radio most obviously prompts comparisons with existing Global network Heart, although is really somewhere between that and Capital. Around 20% of Smooth’s 100 most-
played tracks of Q2 could be described as current or recurrent, a far higher number than Magic where fewer than 10 of its 100 top tracks could be similarly billed with the rest of Magic’s output made up of oldies largely from the Seventies onwards. Eight of Magic and Smooth’s Top 100 Q2
tracks were the same with the overlap comprising five old tracks by the Bee Gees, Al Green, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Otis
Redding and The Temptations respectively and current or recent releases by Atlantic’s Jason Mraz and Rumer and RCA’s Rebecca Ferguson. All three of those contemporary cuts also
registered in Nielsen Music’s Q2 Top 100 for Radio 2, which in this past quarter typically lent its support to some new tracks also backed by Smooth but given little or no backing by other leading stations. Such examples included Dramtico act
Katie Melua’s Moonshine, Warner Bros signing Marlon Roudette’s big continental hit New Age, Paul Carrack’s self-released Good Feelin’ About It and the Island tracks Open Up Your Arms by Ren Harvieu and Hit Or Miss by Tom Jones. Smooth and Radio 2 were also two of UK radio’s most
Source: Nielsen Music
enthusiastic champions of Paloma Faith’s RCA single Picking Up The Pieces, while 16 of the stations’ 100 most-played Q2 tracks were in common. Real Radio’s adult contemporary
offering has more emphasis on the word contemporary than adult and ranged in the last quarter from XL’s Adele and Columbia’s Train, which were both also heavily backed by Heart, to non-Heart fare such as Interscope/Polydor’s Carly Rae Jepsen, Postiva/Virgin’s David Guetta, Cash Money/ Island’s Nicki Minaj and Warner’s Stooshe. Around three-fifths of Real Radio
Scotland’s 100 top songs of Q2 could be deemed current or recurrent but only about a quarter of Heart’s. Even where Real and Heart do have
artists in common Real tends to back the current track while Heart is more likely to support an act’s previous hit, leaving sister network Capital to hammer the latest tune. Examples in Q2 included Interscope/ Polydor’s Maroon 5 with Real strongly backing both Moves Like Jagger and the latest cut Payphone, while Heart made Jagger its second most-played track of the period but found no room in its Top 100 for Payphone. Real and Heart also have a very different
mix of old tracks with Real’s largely from the Nineties onwards, while the Eighties remains a very important part of the Global brand’s music offering.
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