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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 39
ARTIST SINGLES Universal 39.0% Sony 20.7% Warner 17.0% EMI 15.2% Others 8.1%
DIGITAL VS
PHYSICAL 34.3%
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Matt Cardle hits No.1 on HMV pre-order chart Friday, September 28 Simon Cowell's 'DJ Idol' show scrapped Saturday, September 29 AIMAwards 2012 nominations revealed Thursday, September 27 Co-Op sale to PIAS: indies object Thursday, September 27 Universal completes EMI acquisition Friday, September 28
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 46.1% Sony 21.6% Warner 12.4% EMI 11.8% Others 8.1%
INK SPOTS 34.9% 64.5% 34.3% 65.1%
36% 63.4%
WkS 35-39 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks
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Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you. On the front of this month’s BBC Music magazine, a 100th anniversary special cele- brates the “exhilarating life and turbu- lent times” of Hungarian “conduct- ing legend” Sir Georg Solti (1912- 1997) on the centenary of his birth. Inside, unearthed diaries from
the London Symphony Orchestra’s first tour to North America reveal the gritty reality of the trip – includ- ing a ten-day journey at sea, the death of a violinist and the “dis- graceful” pavements, “narrow” streets and “ugly” trams of Broadway, New York. The regular James Naughtie
interview is with director Graham Vick, who says we’ve gone “very badly in the direction of McDonald’s opera”. “The same productions cir- cle the globe and the opera loses touch,” he says. Chief music critic and columnist of The Times Richard Morrison says that the canon of “‘popular masterpieces’ isn’t and shouldn’t be, fixed for all time.” In the reviews pages, Recording
YES: 51%
@tom_amazing @christweets I had to buy Definitely Maybe twice because I spilt a Bacardi Breezer on it whilst having a snog at a teenage house
party (Tom Cotton, Amazing Radio) Monday, September 24
@TedKessler1 Great end of The Jam piece in @MOJOmagazine but pre- sume that it'll be pulped as early era Jam logo erroneously used on the
cover. Tragic. (Ted Kessler, Q Magazine) Monday, September 24
@alistairtant Nevermind came out 21 years ago today. Fucking hell! (Alistair Tant, Essential Music & Marketing) Monday, September 24
@JackShankly There are no blues that a haircut, a close shave and twenty Camel cannot ameliorate for a tiny while at least (Jack Shankly,
Weird World Records) Tuesday, September 25 NO: 49%
@ArtfulNoiseUK For old HMV people, just seen Andy Thompson! Didn't talk to him though, he still looks like Ian Brown/Jason Orange though (Peter
Cornish-Barlow, Artful Noise) Tuesday, September 25
@pariszarcilla super LOL. people on youtube actually think the video I did for @themilk is Illuminati propaganda. ▼(Paris Zarcilla, Sudden Black)
Wednesday, September 26
@elizabethalker Better to be on Twitter than to fade away... Neil Young is ON TWITTER *rushes to hotel lobby and boots German pensioner offline
to follow* (Elizabeth Alker, BBC6 music) Wednesday, September 26
@whittowa Royal Albert Hall is where its happening tonight! #thebeachboys (Amy Whittow, Guesty PR) Thursday, September 27
of the Month is given to Schubert’s String Quartets D87 & D887. Michael Tanner awards it five out of five. He calls it a piece which gives the “unnerving exhilaration of riding in a fast vehicle that seems thrilling- ly unable to stop”.
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@SeanBHill Bloody hell. Avicii has actually found time to make an episode of his podcast (Sean Hill, Lucid Group) Thursday,
September 27
@nickmasondrums Great music at EMI bash on Monday, great to see Bruce Johnstone. Not just a Beach Boy, but ‘Wall’ singer & Sandy
Nelson “Teen Beat” writer ! (Nick Mason, Pink Floyd) Thursday, September 27
@natalie_shaw There is a milkshake establishment in Crouch End that does Mz Bratt, K Koke, One Direction and Justin Bieber 'flavour' milk-
shakes. WHAT (Natalie Shaw, Mobo Awards) Thursday, September 27
@BenjiKRogers CD format turns 30 today – ABBA Gold is UK’s best-sell- er – can't wait till this format is gone. (Benji Rogers, Pledge Music)
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THEMAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
159,000
Copies sold of Mumford and Sons’ Babel makes it 2012’s fastest-selling album, according to the Official Charts Company
1
Label in the CoolBrands index for 2012/2013 – Sony Music. Spotify, TuneTribe, Apple and Shazam also all made the cut
60
Years in print marks music magazine NME’s diamond anniversary
124m+
Legal music downloads delivered by BitTorrent in the first half of 2012
89 Seconds of Adele’s new
Bond theme, Skyfall, leaked online earlier this week
8.2m
Albums sold since 2000, makes The Beatles this century’s sixth most successful albums act in the UK
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