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MUMFORD & SONS I Will Wait (Island) (From album, September 24) Contact: Jon Lawrence, Stoked PR
jon@stokedpr.com
ELLIE GOULDING Anything Could Happen (Polydor) (Single, September 30) Contact: Susie Ember, Polydor
susie.ember@umusic.com
THE XX Chained (Young Turks / XL) (Single, September 3) Contact: Jon Wilkinson, XL
jonwilkinson@xlrecordings.com
NAUGHTY BOY FEAT EMELI SANDE Wonder (Virgin) (Single, September 30) Contact: Janet Choudry, Virgin
Janet.Choudry@
EMIMusic.com
PEACE EP Delicious (Columbia) (Single, September 9) Contact: Ruth Drake, Toast Press
ruth@toastpress.com
THE OTHER TRIBE Skirts (Black Butter / Relentless) (Single, September 10) Contact: Imran Malik
malik@imran-malik.com
MARIKA HACKMAN Mountain Spines (Paradyse) (Single, September 3) Contact: Sinead Mills, Anorak
Sinead@anoraklondon.com
JESSIE WARE Sweet Talk (PMR) (Single, tbc) Contact: Ruth Drake, Toast
ruth@toastpress.com
SINCERE Déjà vu (Mercury) (Single, September 10) Contact: Scarlett Flynn, Mercury
Scarlett.Flynn@umusic.com
BODHI Sy (Push & Run) (Single, August 20) Contact: Matt Ott, Outside
matt.ott@outside-org.co.uk
DATA DIGEST BREAKOUT
BLUEBELL Tipped as “symphonic pop gorgeousness” by the Guardian, London duo Bluebell is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Annabel Jones and dance and electroni- ca producer/song- writer Charlie Westropp. Catch them at Breakout September. Get on the guest list at
musicweek.com/ breakout
SALES PREVIOUS WEEK
% CHANGE YEAR TO DATE
SALES PREVIOUS YEAR % CHANGE
SALES STATISTICS
CHART WEEK 32 Compiled from Official Charts Company sales data by Music Week VS LAST WEEK
SINGLES
3,017,343 3,155,494
–4.4% SINGLES
107,098,634 99,357,058
+7.8%
APPOINTMENT TO VIEW
TAGGED
The latest most popular Shazam new release chart: 1 SAM + THE WOMP Bom Bom
2 RITA ORA How We Do
3 PORTER ROBINSON Language
4 ANGEL Wonderful 5 TREY SONGZ Simply Amazing
Source:
Muso.com
GIG OF THE WEEK
Who: Billy Bragg, Frank Turner, Friendly Fires, Miles Kane, Steve Cradock and Zane Lowe Where: Round- house, London When: August 20 Why: Start the week with a bang at the inaugural Able2UK Concert for disabled awareness. Enjoy a stellar line- up of live music in aid of a good cause.
CRITICALMASS Keeping score of entertainment.
The average review scores of the biggest releases – all courtesy of Metacritic
www.metacritic.com 0 38
ARTIST ALBUMS 927,729
1,045,487 –11.3%
ARTIST ALBUMS 40,752,273 48,555,863
–16.1%
COMPILATIONS 376,265 449,347
–16.3%
COMPILATIONS 10,320,731 9,949,238
+3.7%
TOTAL ALBUMS 1,303,994 1,494,834
–12.8%
TOTAL ALBUMS 51,073,004 58,505,101
–12.7%
THE JOY OF EASY LISTENING Friday, 17 August – BBC4, 8.50pm-10.20pm Documentary charting the history of the genre, from its emergence in the 1950s to its revival in the Nineties. The programme explores the people behind the songs, featuring interviews with Engelbert Humperdinck, Richard Carpenter and Jimmy Webb.
THE X FACTOR Saturday, 18 August – ITV1, 8pm-9.15pm Back for a ninth series as Gary Barlow, Tulisa, Louis Walsh (left) and new judge Nicole Scherzinger search for the nation’s next singing sensation. Dermot O’Leary kicks off the auditions in London and Newcastle.
THE CULTURE SHOW Wednesday, 22 August – BBC2, 10pm-10.30pm Episode 2. The Culture Show at the Edinburgh Festival. Sue Perkins inter- views Nile Rodgers and author Kirsty Gunn, whose novel The Big Music tells the story of a dying composer struggling to create his defining work.
PIRATES’ BAY
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL FILES FOUND BY
MUSO.com OF TOP 10 ALBUMS ON AUGUST 13 2012 1,785 RIHANNA Talk That Talk
377 PLAN B Ill Manors 758 MAROON 5 Overexposed
471 EMELI SANDÉ Our Version Of Events
281 PALOMA FAITH Fall To Grace 191 CONOR MAYNARD Contrast
964 TRAIN California 37 676 ED SHEERAN + ADELE 21 601 KEANE Strangeland 500 1,000 1,552 1,500 2,000
REDD KROSS Researching The Blues
NIKI AND THE DOVE Instinct
LIANNE LA HAVAS Is Your Love Big Enough?
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