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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 32
ARTIST SINGLES Universal 49.2% Warner 21.8% Sony 16.1% EMI 12.2% Others 0.7%
DIGITAL VS 100
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Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending August 13
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Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe statement over manslaughter charge Tuesday, August 7 Fifty Shades Of Grey: The Album is coming Wednesday, August 8 Mumford and Sons debut new track I Will Wait – listen here Wednesday, August 8 Professor Green tells EMI: ‘Do your jobs properly’ Wednesday, August 8 Guy Moot lands top Sony/ATV/EMI job in Europe Thursday, August 9
34.3% 65.3%
PHYSICAL 33.8%
65.8%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 42.7% Warner 18.5% EMI 13.5% Sony 17.2% Others 8.1%
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WkS 28-32 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks
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The summer edition of Metal Hammer mag- azine says Swedish black metal band Watain are leading extreme metal out of the under- ground in a blaze of “blood, guts and hellfire”. The secret to their “unstoppable rise” is apparently ”sympathy for the devil.” Inside, Gene Simmons of Kiss
YES: 45%
@sheenaghjames I’m not at the Stone Roses gig tonight. Just in case anyone was wondering. (Sheenagh James, Universal) Monday, August 6
@musicallypaul Can everyone carry on being so polite and helpful even after everyone has gone home from the games? I am quite enjoying this.
#london2012 (Paul Brindley, Musically) Tuesday, August 7
@johnrobb77 “Sorry we’re late,” says ian brown, “we fell out backstage but we reformed again. He’s joking of course #stoneroses #adidasunder-
ground (John Robb, Louder Than War/ Goldblade) Monday, August 6
@richardallinson Citizen Morrissey... Seems to know as much about Britain in 2012 as he knows about Germany in 1939. (Richard Allinson, BBC
Radio 2) Tuesday, August 7 NO: 55%
@chloemelick Jogging past the Jamaican Olympic team isn’t the start to the day I’d hoped for. (Chloe Melick, Inside/Out)
Tuesday, August 7
@KerryMP I keep being asked what would happen in UK if #pussyriot style band staged 40-second per- formance in St Paul’s and left when
asked? (Kerry McCarthy, Shadow Foreign Minister) Tuesday, August 7
@hells_bellesWhat is with all the cassette releases? I can understand vinyl; it actually sounds good. Cassettes sound shit. STOP THE
INSANITY. (Leslie Gilotti, Charm Factory) Tuesday, August 7
@richthane anyone else have issues with getting holes in the groin area of yer jeans? (Rich Thane, Best Fit Recordings) Wednesday, August 8
says politicians “fart through their mouths” but the band’s fans are strangely articulate as bandmate Eric Singer explains: “Kiss are like a common language that everyone can speak. ‘Oh you speak Kiss?’ ‘Yeah, I totally get it’. It’s a tribal thing which bonds people together.” In animal-related news, nature- obsessed lead vocalist for hotly tipped Kobra And The Lotus Kobra Paige reckons snakes are the “ulti- mate metal animal” and the weird- est thing a fan has ever given Danish musician King Diamond is a severed horse’s leg in a black plas- tic bag – complete with “rotting flesh”. In the reviews pages, Manowar’s 11th studio album The Lord of Steel gets 9 out of 10 from Paul Elliott – a “defiantly old-school metal album” while Malcolm Dome says Hellyeah from Band of Brothers is “intense, menacing and dark” with guitars offering “convincing dual thrust.”
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@sgodfroy Hope to announce opening date of @RoughTrade NYC soon. Incredible amount of work ahead but fixing a date focuses the mind!
(Stephen Godfroy, Rough Trade) Wednesday, August 8
@simon_AEGlive Not a lot better things to do than walk around in the sunshine with mega tunes blaring in your ears.
(Simon Jones, AEG Live) Thursday, August 9
@sorayasobh Off to the @spotify office to steal all their secret plans and take over the world! (Soraya Sobh, We Are The Bakery)
Friday, August 10
@Lou_MadhuWalk out the house with cat litter stuck to my knees. That’s how I roll. (Lou Madhu, freelance)
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THEMAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
927,729
Total UK artist album sales last week – a sub-million historic low
29 Plays of Spandau Ballet’s
Gold to celebrate Team GB’s Olympic success, on Christian O’Connell’s
August 13 Absolute Radio Breakfast show
19,700
Full time jobs created by the UK music festival industry according to UK Music’s Destination: Music report
$1,300
To spend five days at sea on R Kelly’s now cancelled Love Letter Cruise. Kelly claimed the cruise’s promoter failed to pay him
1 Free Beer & Breakfast Bap
(B&BB) for attendees to this years Reading and Leeds festival
5
Weeks in a Czech Republic prison and Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe is released on bail
following accusations of manslaughter
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