18 Music Week 01.02.13 BUSINESSANALYSIS SONGWRITERS IN 2012
ALBUMS BY PAUL WILLIAMS
Emeli Sande’s million-selling Our Version Of Events secures her top billing on Music Week’s chart of the most successful album songwriters of 2012. The Virgin Records debut sold an unrivalled 1.4
million copies last year, according to the Official Charts Company, to place her at No 1 on our countdown compiled from songwriting shares of the year’s 20 biggest- selling artist albums. She also co-wrote a song on Pink’s album The Truth About Love, while her own album’s main collaborator and fellow Sony/ATV/EMI signing Naughty Boy is ninth. At the chart’s top end she is joined by several names
returning from 2011’s countdown with Sony/ATV/EMI’s Ed Sheeran, placed fourth then, moving up to runners-up spot because of his own + album and co-writing Little Things and Over Again on One Direction’s Take Me Home. Third in 2011, Coldplay are fourth this time after
Mylo Xyloto sold another 475,657 copies during the year, while ahead of them in bronze position are fellow Universal signings Mumford & Sons who wrote all the songs on the standard version of their second album Babel. Universal’s Adele easily topped the 2011 albums
songwriters chart and she returns in sixth place after 21 sold another 786,424 copies. Just ahead of her in fifth place is Lana Del Rey who co-wrote all the songs on her first album Born To Die, while her main collaborator, Sony/ATV/EMI colleague Justin Parker, is 15th having the additional benefit of a co-wrote on Rihanna’s Unapologetic album. Neil Diamond’s deep and substantial song catalogue,
housed at Sony/ATV/EMI, delivered again for the veteran American as he takes seventh place on our countdown after retrospective The Very Best Of finished as the 18th top artist album of 2012. The year’s top songwriter based on hit singles, Sony/ATV/EMI’s Calvin Harris is eighth when it comes to albums with his showing comprising not just copyrights on his own release 18 Months but co- writes on Rihanna’s Talk That Talk album. Like One Direction and Rihanna, Universal-published
Olly Murs had two of the year’s 20 biggest artist albums. Unlike them, he was also the releases’ main songwriter with his contributions to Right Place Right Time and In Case You Didn’t Know placing him 10th on the songwriters chart. Two of Murs’ collaborators – Warner/Chappell’s Wayne Hector and Imagem’s Steve Robson – also make
TOP 20 ALBUM SONGWRITERS 2012 POS
SONGWRITER(S) / PUBLISHER
1 EMELI SANDE Sony/ATV/EMI 2 ED SHEERAN Sony/ATV/EMI 3 MUMFORD & SONS Universal 4 COLDPLAY Universal 5 ELIZABETH GRANT AKA LANA DEL REY Sony/ATV/EMI 6 ADELE ADKINS Universal 7 NEIL DIAMONDSony/ATV/EMI 8 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS Sony/ATV/EMI 9 SHAHID KHAN AKA NAUGHTY BOY Sony/ATV/EMI 10 OLLY MURS Universal 11 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Farrell/Notting Hill 12 PALOMA FAITH Universal 13 CARL FALK AND RAMI YACOUBBMG Chrysalis, Kobalt 14 ALECIA MOORE AKA PINKSony/ATV/EMI 15 JUSTIN PARKER Sony/ATV/EMI 16 CLAUDE KELLY Warner/Chappell 17 TIM METCALFE AND FLYNN FRANCIS Universal 18 WAYNE HECTOR Warner/Chappell 19 STEVE ROBSON Imagam 20 JESSICA CORNISH AKA JESSIE J Sony/ATV/EMI
RIGHT Olly on the up: Universal-signed Olly Murs penned a chunk of both Right Place Right Time and In Case You Didn’t Know
TOP 100 HIT
SONGWRITERS OF 2012 BY NATIONALITY
TOP 100 SONGWRITERS OF 2012
BY PUBLISHER
TOP 100 SINGLES OF 2012
BY SONG TYPE
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UK 34.3% US 36.7% REST OF EUROPE 19% REST OF WORLD 10%
Source: Music Week research
SONY/ATV/EMI 31% KOBALT 18.5% UNIVERSAL13%
WARNER/CHAPPELL 9.7% C/C 5% IMAGEM 4% BUCKS 3%
BMG CHRYSALIS 2.8% OTHERS 13%
PARTLY WRITTEN BY RECORDING ACT 72% WRITTEN BY OUTSIDE SONGWRITERS 18% WRITTEN BY RECORDING ACT 5% COVER VERSION 5%
the chart. Hector is 18th having contributed songs to five of the year’s 20 top artist albums: the two Murs sets, both One Direction albums and Paloma Faith’s Fall To Grace. Nineteenth-placed Robson, in turn, is credited on the same five albums. Universal-signed Faith is herself 12th on the chart, just
ahead of BMG Chrysalis’s Carl Falk and Kobalt’s Rami Yacoub thanks to their One Direction output. Ahead of them all, Farrell’s Robbie Williams is 11th after co-writing all but one of the tracks on Take The Crown, while the pairing of Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis, who are both signed to Universal, are 17th after co-authoring seven of the album’s songs.
TOP 20 UK SONGWRITERS 2012 POS SONGWRITER(S) / PUBLISHER 1 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS Sony/ATV/EMI 2 COLDPLAY Universal 3 EMELI SANDE Sony/ATV/EMI 4 RUDIMENTAL Sony/ATV/EMI 5 PAUL EPWORTH Sony/ATV/EMI 6 ED SHEERAN Sony/ATV/EMI 7 TIMOTHY MCKENZIE AKA LABRINTH Sony/ATV/EMI 8 FLORENCE WELCHUniversal 9 GARY BARLOW Sony/ATV/EMI 10 SAM AND THE WOMPPerfect Songs 11 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Perfect Songs 12 TMS Sony/ATV/EMI 13 HOAX & CRAZE Sony/ATV/EMI 14 ELLIOTT GLEAVE AKA EXAMPLE Universal 15 WAYNE HECTOR Warner/Chappell 16= ALEX CLARE Universal 16= JIM DUGUID Warner/Chappell 18= NORMAN COOK ASongs 18= RIZZLE KICKS BMG Chrysalis 20 ADELE ADKINS Universal
Sony/ATV/EMI’s Jessie J completes the Top 20 in
20th place after Who You Are shifted another 369,903 copies last year.
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The strength of Kobalt’s hit songwriting roster is laid bare
by the publisher providing newly-merged powerhouse Sony/ATV/EMI with the main competition on Music Week’s songwriters chart for 2012. Unsurprisingly, Sony/ATV/EMI has the biggest stake
of the Top 100 chart – 31% - with its showing comprising the likes of Calvin Harris, Sia Furler and Stargate from the EMI Publishing side and Sony/ATV signings such as Ed Sheeran, Flo Rida and Gary Barlow. However, it is Kobalt, not Universal, putting up the
closest challenge with 18.5% of the chart, the half percentage down to its pairing of Rami Yacoub with BMG Chrysalis’s Carl Falk. The independent publisher’s hand includes such heavyweights as Shellback, Gotye and Max Martin, all of whom are among the year’s 10 leading hit songwriters. Universal has 13% of the chart, led by fourth-placed
Coldplay, while Warner/Chappell’s 9.7% share includes Claude Kelly, Wayne Hector and French songwriting and production duo soFly & Nius who co-wrote Flo Rida’s Wild Ones. Besides Falk, BMG Chrysalis’s interests include
will.i.am while the chart’s four positions occupied by Imagem include The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue and Mark Sheehan who collaborated with the Black Eyed Peas man on Hall Of Fame. Bucks has three writers registering, among them David Guetta collaborator Giorgio Tuinfort and Afrojack.
Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
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