4 MusicWeek 07.09.12 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
QUEST MANAGEMENT: A Live Nation FY financial filing from February 2012 said that the promoter's Artist Nation division had "acquired a 50% interest in Quest Management (UK) Limited". Music Week reported this relationship as presented in last week’s issue. However, Quest founder Scott Rodger has since told MWthat Live Nation’s filing contained inaccuracies. He said: “In March of last year I entered into a venture with Front Line Artist Management Limited, a UK company, who acquired a 50% interest in Quest Management (UK) Limited. Quest is not a subsidiary of Front Line Artist Management Limited or any division of Live Nation.” JLS: The former X Factor runners-up have revealed details of their new album and lead single. The new LP, Evolution, will be released on November 5 and will be preceded by the single Hottest Girl In The World on October 21. ELBOW: The band’s singer Guy Garvey is set to embark on a record label venture with Fiction Records boss Jim Chancellor that will specialise in vinyl EP releases. BILLY JOEL: The star has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing administration deal with Rondor Music and Universal Music Publishing that incorporates his entire 40-year career catalogue. PIRATE BAY: One of the founders of the controversial filesharing Pirate Bay website has been arrested in Cambodia. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg failed to show up for the start of his one-year jail term for copyright violations and an international warrant was issued against him in April by his native Sweden. SPOTIFY: The streaming service has introduced physical gift cards to Target retail stores in the US. The cards will be available in $10, $30 and $60 amounts – the equivalent to one, three or six months paid subscription to the service. CHRIS LIGHTY: US music manager and hip-hop pioneer Chris Lighty has been found dead at his home in New York. He was 44. Police told reporters that the incident was being treated as a suicide. PANDORA: The Internet radio service’s revenue surpassed $100m in Q2. It also posted a widened net loss, up to $5.4m from $3.7m in Q2. 2011.
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.com NO MORE MR. ‘INTERESTING’ - STAR BRINGS THE HITS FOR SOLO RETURN
Robbie: never before has so much hinged on one album
TALENT R
obbie Williams believes that his new album, Take The Crown, will make or
break his solo career. The LP is the star’s first on
Universal/Island, after he switched labels last year. His previous eight solo albums were all released on EMI, starting with 1997’s 2.4 million-selling Life Thru A Lens. Released on November 5,
Take The Crown contains tracks including Be A Boy, Shit On The Radio, All That I Want and Losers (featuring Lissie) – plus lead single Candy, co- written with Gary Barlow. “This is the template for
how I should carry on in the future – unless I decide to fuck things up again by being ‘interesting’,” Williams told Music Week. “Basically, now it’s appeared,
and we’ve had some reaction, it’s like ‘Oh fuck, yeah, this is what I should have been shooting for’.” The album was recorded in
Los Angeles with producer Jacknife Lee, whilst featured orchestra parts were recorded at the fabled Capitol Studios in LA. As well as Barlow, other co-writers include Australians Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis. “They came in and we wrote
the album in 10 days,” said Williams. “It hasn’t flowed like that since Life Thru A Lens,
1 Be A Boy 2 Gospel 3 Candy 4 Different 5 Shit On The Radio 6 All That I Want 7 Hunting For You 8 Into The Silence 9 Hey Wow Yeah Yeah 10 Not Like The Others 11 Losers (Featuring Lissie)
“This is the template for how I should carry on in the future – unless I decide to fuck things up again by being ‘interesting’” ROBBIE WILLIAMS
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TAKE THE CROWN TRACKLISTING
with Guy [Chambers]. That took a week to write.” Williams has sold more
than 60 million albums in his solo career and won 17 Brit awards - more than any other artist in history. He rejoined Take That in
2010 and was a key part of their multi-platinum Progress album and record-breaking associated tour – which Williams calls a “busman’s holiday which re-energised me in many, many ways”. Take The Crown will be
Williams’ first album since 2009’s Reality Killed The Video Star, a release which went platinum across Europe, but was also the first solo album of the singer’s solo career not to hit No.1 on the Official UK chart. Discussing Take The Crown, Williams told Music Week:
“Never in my career has so much hinged on one album. I get this wrong and I’m fucked; I get this wrong and it all goes in another direction. “Success feels good. When it
goes away, it doesn’t feel so good. I’d like to be successful and I’d like to feel good for a bit longer. “I don’t know how many
times I’m going to go to radio and they say, ‘Yep, you’re still young enough and this is still good enough.’ This might be the time they say, ‘We’ve had a rethink…’ “So what I’m saying is, I
might get another 10 years out of this [industry], but that kind of depends on this record. “No-one wants to be a
nostalgia artist. I want to keep creating things that I’m emotionally involved with.”
Henley Business School launches one-day seminars
Henley Business School is launching a new series of one- day seminars following the success of a recent Music & Brand Partnership event, Creative Dynamics will
present a series of seminars and workshops for the music, film, broadcast, content and media industries. It will initially encompass six annual events with
a highlights report after each. The first seminar will arrive
on November 7. Called Managing Creatives, it will discuss the environment and culture within organisations. The news comes ahead of the
launch of Henley’s MBA for the Music Industry, which begins later this month. “Management theory has
always focused on traditional organisational structure,” said Henley programme director Helen Gammons (pictured). “Few companies really embrace creativity and motivate creatives even though their organisation
depends on it.” See page 21 for a report on Henley’s recent Music and Brand Partnerships event
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