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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 36
ARTIST SINGLES Universal 37.1% Sony 28.9% Warner 22.2% EMI 5.8% Others 6.0%
DIGITAL VS 100
20 40 60 80
0 32.7% 66.9% PHYSICAL
36.6% 63.0%
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Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending Sept. 14
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New Culture Secretary has no music industry experience Tuesday, September 4 Did record labels really sabotage vinyl on purpose? Friday, September 7 Universal Publishing signs Steve Perry deal Thursday, September 6 Spotify needs 20m subscribers to compete with iTunes Tuesday, September 4 REM ban Fox News from playing Losing My Religion Friday, September 7
34.3% 65.3% 35.3% 65.3% 34.3% 65.2%
WkS 32-36 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks
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ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 38.6% Sony 31.0% Warner 13.8% EMI 9.8% Others 6.8%
INK SPOTS
Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you. On the front of this month’s The Fly
magazine, paisley-shirted noise merchants Toy are here to “melt your frontal lobes” with their psychedelic self-titled debut. They reveal grand plans to release an album every year despite admitting they “couldn’t be poorer”. Inside, Two Door Cinema Club
explain how they re-captured their “bright and vivacious sound” again for second album Beacon by ditching the Scotch mist of Glasgow for sunnier climes in California. Chris Taylor and Daniel Rossen
of Grizzly Bear explain how behind every album lies a knot of anxiety: “I’m sick of it, I just don’t want to listen to the album at all,” says Rossen, traumatised by the memo- ries of their latest creation Shields. Former Golden Silvers frontman
Gwilym Gold is back with solo debut Tender Metal in the form of a new app Bronze – an “entirely new, immersive and rewarding listening experience”. Meanwhile, Britain’s “most exciting new band” Peace started out with a lot of “weird nights of chanting”. In the reviews pages Michael
YES: 9%
@ArtfulNoiseUK Whatever people say about Coldplay, Chris Martin has written some great songs. Amsterdam being one of them for me
(Peter Cornish-Barlow, Artful Noise) Tuesday, September 4
@ChrisLoco_ Stupidity never fails to surprise me on all levels (Chris Loco, Loft B Recordings) Wednesday, September 5
@rebeccaAbernard If you listen to #Choicefm around 7pm they ALWAYS play Usher-Climax. Trust me. Try it tomorrow. Same time everyday!
(Rebecca Bernard, Universal Music Group) Wednesday, September 5
@BillyWoodWME Never gas if you get signed to a major without knowing if you have that engaged fan base that will help u go through.....
(Billy Wood, WME Entertainment) Wednesday, September 5
NO: 91%
@AJCardoo That sinking feeling when the iTunes receipt comes through a few days after you had a beer and bought way too many tunes...
(Adam Cardew, Absolute Marketing & Distribution) Wednesday, September 5
@fred_air Listening to the EP of such an exciting new talent and reading @MusicWeekNews . Pleasure (Fredric Fernandez, Trust
Management) Wednesday, September 5
@themike_p Listening to Hal David tribute on 6 music, Makes me tingle,sheer brilliance Definitely not worthy!
(Michael Pickering, Sony) Thursday, September 6
@LozLong Going to see JLS tonight... Whoop! Gonna be awesome. Not been to a BIG pop concert in sooooooo long. (Lorraine Long, Charmfactory)
Thursday, September 6
@ladygaga More like C U NEXT TUESDAY RT @MTV: @ladygaga Thanks for watching and tweeting! See you next year?" Gaga see this?
They want u bAck (Lady Gaga) Friday, September 7
Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews
@example Who wants to do a house remix of my next single? Some big name gimp producer just retracted his remix cos he didn't like my feedback
(Example) Thursday, September 6
Cragg gives The xx’s Coexist four stars, the record that “works best when enjoyed as a complete album”.
LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST
@russelleslamifa Para para paradise (Russell Eslamifar, Syco Entertainment) Thursday, September 6
@NiallMDoherty We are listening to the all-singing all-dancing reissue of Peter Gabriel's So. Fucking ace. I'm gonna do Sledgehammer on X Factor
one day. (Niall Doherty, Q Magazine) Thursday, September 6
THEMAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
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Million subscribers left to gain and Spotify will pay artists similar annual
royalties to iTunes says “Artist in Residence” D.A Wallach
3
Awards for One Direction at the MTV Video Music
Awards for hit What Makes You Beautiful
27
EU states rumored to have delivered Universal/EMI verdicts last week
1
Extract from a rundown of Crap Lyrics by Johnny Sharp includes the line from
Jennifer Lopez’s 2002 hit, Jenny From The Block:
“Can't forget to stay real. To me it's like breathing”
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Million records sold worldwide by artists
discovered by The X Factor format, despite TV viewing figures dropping 3m year-on-year
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