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ANDY WILLIAMS: Singer Andy Williams died last Tuesday (September 25) at his home in Branson, Missouri, aged 84, following a year-long battle with cancer. Tributes poured in for vocalist, who was well-known for hits including Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Happy Heart and Music To Watch Girls By. His signature song will be remembered as Mercer/Mancini’s Moon River, which Williams first performed at the Oscars in 1962. BRIAN SELBY: Founder of iconic Nottingham record shop Selectadisc, Brian Selby, has died aged 71. He passed away at home in Cropwell Butler on Tuesday morning following a battle with pancreatic cancer. As well as Selectadisc, Selby was also the founder of The Garage nightclub in Nottingham’s Lace Market, which is known as one of the first clubs to play house music in the UK. FRANK WILSON: Legendary Motown producer Frank Wilson died last Thursday (September 27) following a long battle with cancer. Wilson created hits for some of the label’s most popular acts, including Castles In the Sand for Stevie Wonder and Chained by Marvin Gaye. CD: The format turned 30 years old on Monday (October 1). The BPI released figures to show that ABBA Gold is the UK’s biggest-selling album on the format. NEIL YOUNG: The artist and songwriter has revealed his own HQ music service and platform for audiophiles, which he plans to launch onto the market next year. Pono will play both traditional MP3 files, as well as high-quality 192kHz / 24-bit recordings. AMAZON: PRS for Music has signed a licensing agreement for Amazon’s new server-based music service Cloud Player. SPOTIFY: The streaming service will be available as part of a mobile tariff in Germany for the first time from tomorrow (October 2), following a new deal with Deutsche Telekom.
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Cooking Vinyl gets it together in US T
LABELS BY TIM INGHAM
he Cooking Vinyl Group has
launched a new operation that streamlines the company’s US activities into one operation. Cooking Vinyl America is
based in New York, and led by industry veteran Erik Gilbert (pictured). It will provide strategic services within the territory for the entire Group, including artist/label acquisition and business strategy. CV America will also act as a
standalone music publisher – signing new writers for the world and exploiting Cooking Vinyl Publishing copyrights in the US. CV America’s publishing rights will be administered in the UK by Cooking Vinyl Publishing. Gilbert is in the process of finalising a clutch of sub-publishing deals across the world. Gilbert previously ran the US
“The creation of CV America makes complete strategic sense for the entire
organisation, especially with the Group’s expansion into licensing and label services” ERIK GILBERT, COOKING VINYL
office for the CV Group company Essential Music & Marketing. Essential’s US operations - global strategy, marketing and distribution services to North American labels including Sumerian, Vagrant, Thirty Tigers, MRI & Razor & Tie – have now been rolled into CV America. The new publishing
operation will be looking to build excitement around Macclesfield-based rockers, The Virginmarys. The band, who are signed to a worldwide deal with Cooking Vinyl Publishing, joining a growing roster of
artists and writers that includes Audio Bullys, 65daysofstatic, Kathryn Williams, Reverend & The Makers, The Last Dinosaur, Meursault and many others, are due to play showcases in New York on October 18 and 19. Signed to a worldwide
recording deal with Cooking Vinyl rock imprint DoubleCross, their debut album King Of Conflict, produced by Toby Jepson and mixed by Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Muse, Radiohead) has been licensed to Wind-up Records in the US (Evanescence, Creed, Seether)
and scheduled for a February 2013 release. Commenting on these
developments, Gilbert said: “The creation of CV America makes complete strategic sense for the entire organisation, especially with the Group’s expansion into licensing and label services. “As well as administering
Cooking Vinyl publishing activities in the US, we will also have a budget to sign writers and represent them throughout the world. On that front, there will be exciting announcements in the months ahead.” Paul Kinder, MD Cooking
Vinyl Publishing, added: “CV America is an important development for the CV Group. I am particularly excited about the possibilities that will open up for our writers and artists having our own publishing company the US. Erik understands the publishing world very well and will provide an excellent service to both our UK and US rosters over the coming years.”
K-pop explosion: are you ready for a Gangnam Style album? “Psy
Hit song Gangnam Style is riding high in the UK chart. With more than 150,000 lifetime sales to date, industry watchers shouldn’t count out a follow-up album. Psy, the 34-year-old South
Korean rapper, made chart history last Sunday by becoming the first artist from east Asia to top the UK chart, shifting 84,421 units of his track in the week. It reached the top spot in its
11th week on sale in the UK and has already clocked up six weeks in the Top 200. The song is the pinnacle of
the growth of ‘K-Pop’, commercially-friendly dance music from Korea. YouTube set up its own K-Pop channel last year, which has helped Gangnam Style become the most ‘Liked’ video in the site’s history and record more than 334 million views. Justin Bieber manager
Scooter Braun beat others in a rush to sign Psy when the YouTube video of Gangnam
clearly is a man who hasn’t paid close attention to the rule
book so far, so delivering a supermarket unit- shifting album can’t be ruled out quite yet!” TED COCKLE, ISLAND
Style had reached around a million views, and decided to pass the song to Island Records in the UK. “There’s not often a trans-
Atlantic rush to sign a Korean pop-sensation,” Island co-president Ted Cockle told Music Week. “Scooter helped incubate the record whilst working behind the scenes on excellent promo opportunities, and alongside Monte Lipman
and the Universal Republic team helped create the launch that we at Island in the UK have kindly taken the baton on from.” Added Cockle: “Thankfully,
when the video hit over 100 million views in the space of four weeks, it did suggest an almost bionic edge to this song and something that would quickly scythe its way through so many of the obstacles that normally block the path to success.”
When asked if Psy could
become an album artist in the near future, Cockle said: “At this point the single is leading the charge and in the immediate future single chart success is the focus. “However, Psy clearly is a
man who hasn’t paid close attention to the rule book so far, so delivering a supermarket unit- shifting album can’t be ruled out quite yet!”
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