14 MusicWeek 17.08.12 BUSINESSANALYSISRADIOAIRPLAYQ2
NUMBER ONES OF THE QUARTER Q2 2012 STATION
ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL
RADIO 1 RADIO 2
ABSOLUTE GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Island CAPITAL HEART KISS
JESSIE J Domino Island JASON MRAZ I Won’t Give Up Atlantic MAGIC
DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA Titanium Positiva/Virgin BRUNO MARS Just The Way You Are Elektra/Atlantic
REAL SCOT. CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call Me Maybe Interscope/Polydor SMOOTH XFM
WILL YOUNG Losing Myself RCA ARCTIC MONKEYS R U Mine Domino
1XTRA 6 MUSIC Although it did finish in 61st place at Radio 1,
Paloma Faith’s RCA single Picking Up The Pieces also found a much more enthusiastic home at Radio 2 where it was the station’s most-played track of the quarter and was 11 at Smooth. Capital failed to get behind the track enough to place it in its quarter- end Top 100. Radio 2, meanwhile, trod a largely lone path on a
number of its big Q2 songs, including the Conehead-issued Engelbert Humperdinck comeback Love Will Set You Free, which was its fifth top tune despite its subsequent failure at Eurovision. The tide musically finally appears to be turning a
bit more Absolute Radio’s way, reflected by its top two tracks of the quarter also being among the period’s top five sellers. Somebody That I Used To Know was its number one and We Are Young number two, while its other favourites included tracks by Warner Bros’s Black Keys and Rough Trade’s Alabama Shakes. Global-owned Heart’s top Q2 track was
Atlantic act Jason Mraz’s I Won’t Give Up, which was also fourth at Smooth, while with Radio 2 it was one of the big supporters of Columbia-signed Train’s Drive By. Capital and Kiss continued to have the most in
common musically among UK’s leading radio outlets, sharing 63 tracks in their Q2 Top 100s
ABOVE
Picking up: Paloma Faith enjoyed top status at Radio 2
RIGHT Feeling loved: Rudimental was the quarter’s most-played song at Radio 1 and 1Xtra while Domino’s Hot Chip (far right) topped the 6 Music list
RUDIMENTAL FEAT. JOHN NEWMAN Feel The Love Asylum/Black Butter HOT CHIP Night & Day Domino
TOP 100 Q2 AIRPLAY CHART BY CORPORATE GROUP
Universal 38% Sony 20%
Warner 20% EMI 14%
Others 8% Source: Nielsen Music Source: Nielsen Music
RUDIMENTAL FEAT. JOHN NEWMAN Feel The Love Asylum/Black Butter PALOMA FAITH Picking Up The Pieces RCA
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with the Bauer outlet opting for the Positiva/Virgin-issued Titanium by David Guetta featuring Sia as its overall top song. This was placed 20th at Capital, while Sia was also part of Kiss’s second top track of the three months: Atlantic act Flo Rida’s Wild Ones. Indie Domino claimed the quarter’s most-
played track at both 6 Music and XFM with Hot Chip’s Night & Day leading 6’s rankings ahead of Memphis Industries act Polica’s Dark Star and XFM’s favourite being Arctic Monkeys’ R U Mine. Even by its own standards of musical uniqueness, 6 hit an unusually real point of
difference in the quarter with none of its Top 100 registering in the period’s overall radio Top 100, although it had some tracks in common with other stations, including Island act Paul Weller’s When Your Gardens Overgrown, which was ranked third at the digital station, 47 at XFM and 58 at Radio 2. At the other end of the spectrum, four male
artists led Bauer’s Magic top tunes of the quarter with Bruno Mars with Just The Way You Are heading a quartet also comprising fellow Atlantic act Jason Mraz, Island’s James Morrison and RCA’s Will Young.
A DIGITAL DECADE DIZZEE COMES FULL CIRCLE AS RADIO 1XTRA CELEBRATES ITS 10th YEAR
RADIO 1XTRA CELEBRATES its 10th birthday this week and a decade on it continues to provide a vital platform for emerging urban artists. From day one the digital station very
clearly set out its agenda to back homegrown new talent, including Dizzee Rascal (right) whose I Luv U appeared on 1Xtra’s first-ever playlist in August 2002. This was a year before he won the Mercury Prize and nearly five years before he topped the UK singles chart for the first time. In Q2 this year Dizzee was prominent
again on the station as featured vocalist on Ministry of Sound act DJ Fresh’s The Power, which was its third most-played track of the period, according to Nielsen Music. But the now-relative veteran star was joined on 1Xtra’s airwaves by many lesser-known UK and overseas artists covering an extremely wide spectrum of urban music. A good chunk of 1 Xtra’s 100 most- played tracks of the period were those by
RADIO 1XTRA TOP 10 Q2 2012 POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL
Source: Nielsen Music
1 RUDIMENTAL/J NEWMAN Feel The Love Asylum/Black Butter 2 D’BANJ Oliver Twist Mercury 3 DJ FRESH FEAT. DIZZEE RASCAL The Power MoS 4 JAY-Z/KANYE WEST No Church In The Wild Roc-A-Fella/Mercury 5 SNEAKBO Sing For Tomorrow Play Hard 6 RIHANNA Where Have You Been Def Jam/Mercury 7 TREY SONGZ Heart Attack Atlantic 8 SWAY Level Up 3 Beat/AATW 9 RITA ORA FEAT. TINIE TEMPAH RIP Roc Nation/Columbia 10 PROFESSOR GREEN FEAT. RUTH ANNE Remedy Virgin
acts who had already or were about to reach the mainstream, 45 of which also turned up in sister network Radio 1’s own Top 100 of the quarter. These included Asylum/Black Butter’s chart-topping Feel The Love by Rudimental featuring John Newman, both stations’ most-played track
over the three months, and cuts by the likes of Cash Money/Island’s Nicki Minaj, Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna and RCA’s Chris Brown. The two networks also shared support in
the quarter for a handful of breaking artists, including Mercury’s London rapper/ producer Dot Rotten, Island-signed UK singer-songwriter Jessie Ware and Atlantic- handled homegrown dubstep DJ and producer Flux Pavilion. The digital service’s backing for
fledgling urban acts naturally goes deeper and wider than that and in this past quarter ranged from the likes of homegrown names such as Sony-handled dubstep talent Benga, Island-signed singer-songwriter Josh Osho and Atlantic’s grime artist Mz. Bratt to a
handful of Jamaican dancehall acts including VP Records’ Busy Signal and Konshens who is signed to his own independent label Subkonshus. Among the newer US acts earning 1Xtra
backing in the quarter were Interscope/Polydor LA boy band Mindless Behavior who were put together by Keisha Gamble and Beyonce and Timbaland producer Walter Millsap. Geographically, 1Xtra’s Top 100 of Q2
had a very similar make-up to fellow BBC digital-only station 6 Music’s with 50 out of its Top 100 being by UK acts compared to 49 at 6, while 33 of 1
Xtra’s most-played tracks were by US acts,
compared to 40 at 6. However, the urban station far more relies on repertoire from the majors with only 18 of its 100 biggest cuts in the quarter coming from independents. By contrast, 62 of 6’s Top 100 were released by indie labels.
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