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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 04
ARTIST SINGLES Sony 26% Universal 44.8% Warner 14% EMI 4.7% Others 10.5%
DIGITAL VS 100
20 40 60 80
0 12% 87.2%
PHYSICAL 57.1%
42.5%
TOP 5 STORIES ON
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Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending January 28
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Global dance music trade body formed Monday, January 28 Rough Trade could open more UK stores following HMV col- lapse Wednesday, January 23 Kobalt signs Dave Grohl Tuesday, January 22 Spotify teams with MusicMetric for new analytics service Thursday, January 24 Dido: 'You should never hold anything back' Tuesday, January 22
ARTIST ALBUMS Sony 26.5% Universal 49.1% Warner 5.9% EMI 6% Others 12.5%
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On the front of this month’s Metal Hammer magazine, Lars Ulrich tells all about Metallica’s upcoming
59% 41.5% 62.9% 36.4% 64.6% 34.8%
WkS 52-04 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks
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ninth studio album “It’s loud, it’s rocking, it’s fast” and “there will be solos” he promises. Inside, Guns N’Roses bassist
Duff McKagan talks on being a “writer, businessman and father”, and drumming duo Vinnie Paul (Pantera) and Chris Adler (Lamb of God) explain “influences, creativity and tuba lessons”. Elsewhere Miss May I have plans
for world domination and Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine explains “having a mini mid-life crisis” in a “polite, reasonable and uncontrover- sial” interview. A Best Albums of 2012 poll places Devin Townsend Project’s Epicloud and the latest release from French metal outfit Gojira: L’Enfant Sauvage at second and first place respectively. In the reviews pages, Metallica’s
YES: 79%
@Eve_Barlow I'm so glad Beyonce is Vice President. (Eve Barlow, NME) Monday, January 21
@RozzerM Beyonce's never sung a note wrong in her life, has she? (Roz Mansfield, Atlantic Records) Monday, January 21
@AnyaStrafford Listening to a podcast where an American critic describes the Emeli Sande record as 'So British. You know, like Bob The Builder.' (Anya Strafford, Columbia UK)
Monday, January 21
@HughDoVoodoo Just walked into the office kitchen to find someone eating out of the bin. I defy anyone to have a suitable response for this situation.
(Hugh Platt, Thrash Hits) Tuesday, January 22 NO: 21%
@JaredLeto New MARS music is com- ing sooner than you think. Prepare. #MARSisComing (Jared Leto) Tuesday, January 22
@StreetStephen Chuffed to hear that the new Madness single that I worked on last year has been A listed at #bbc2 Always a buzz to hear your- work on radio! (Stephen Street, pro-
ducer) Tuesday, January 22
@markhoppus hope fully. hopefully. hoe pfoley. hopeful-e. (Mark Hoppus) Wednesday, January 23
@LeanneRmusic Time for a one on one rehearsal with me and my mirror for gig with @breakoutbands @MusicWeekNews next week thurs- day! #Breakout #31stOfJan
(Leanne Robinson) Thursday, January 24 Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews
DVD Quebec Magnetic scores eight out of ten from Joel McIver: “another precision-engineered document of a band at the top of its game”. Holly Wright isn’t quite as enamored with new music from All That Remains. A War You Cannot Win is “overhyped, overproduced ‘core for the masses,” she says.
LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST
@bwerde La Chunga, we meet again. #midem (Bill Werde, Billboard) Monday, January 28
@nhsriley Last night at #midem. Gonna try and get on a yacht (Matt Riley, Hospital Records) Monday, January 28
@bettekoady Having the best time at #midem - have learned so much and met some very cool people. Only thing lacking now is sleep... (Sarah Lewin, RCA Records) Monday, January 28
@denbymark I really think Midem should be moved to May in Croatia. Come on Cannes is so 1980's old school #timeforachange (Mark Denby,
The Orchard) Monday, January 28
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with these head-spinning facts and figures...
6,400
Attendees at Midem 2013, a figure which is down 7% from last year. More than 10,000 delegates were there in 2001
80
Years old and Yoko Ono is to celebrate her birthday with a one-off gig in Berlin on February 17
$13.1bn
Net profit for Apple in the three months to December 31 2012, iTunes generated a record $2.1bn in revenues
£74,600 Paid for the late Freddie
Mercury’s Rolls-Royce by for- mer Eurovision contestant and drag queen Andrey Danilko (aka Verka
Serduchka). The car went
for more than six times its guide price
€22
For a single vodka & coke at popular Midem drinking- haunt the Carlton hotel in Cannes
1,300% Increase in takedown
requests sent to Google against websites alleged to be providing copyright- infringing access to content
over the past year. The num- ber has shot from just over 202,000 in January 2012 to 2,857,308 last week
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