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THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC
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BIG INTERVIEW 12
John Reid on the difference between labels and live - and bagging the Olympic Park
22 VIEWPOINT
Is it time for the industry to start being a bit more deferential towards its veteran execs?
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PROFILE 20
Patrick Moxey’s just done a big deal with Sony - we sit down for a chat
Calvin Harris king of songwriting in 2012 SECOND YEAR AT THE TOP FOR SCOTTISH DJ, PRODUCER AND SONY/ATV/EMI POP COMPOSER
SONGWRITING BY PAUL WILLIAMS
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alvin Harris has finished as the top hit songwriter in the UK for a second
successive year, according to Music Week research. The Scottish DJ and producer tops our exclusive countdown based on writing shares of the Official Charts Company’s top 100 downloads of 2012 after a run of successes including solo singles Let’s Go (with Ne-Yo), We’ll Be Coming Back (with Example) and Sweet Nothing (with Florence Welch) plus penning Cheryl’s chart- topping Call My Name and hits for Rihanna.
It is another triumph for
Harris who also achieved substantial success in the US last year as a songwriter, producer and recording act, while his third Columbia album 18 Months returned to the top of the UK
artist albums chart in early January. Uniquely, seven of the album’s cuts have made the top five of the UK singles chart, including most recently Drinking From The Bottle with Tinie Tempah. Harris beats into second place
fellow Sony/ATV/EMI signing Sia Furler who scored a string of big songwriting successes last year, including co-penning UK No 1 singles Titanium by David Guetta and Diamonds by Rihanna in addition to hits for Flo Rida and Ne-Yo. US band Fun, whose publishing is handled by Sony/ATV/EMI and Warner/Chappell, are third following their breakthrough UK hits We Are Young (featuring Janelle Monae) and Some Nights, while Swedish songwriting and production duo Carl Falk (BMG Chrysalis) and Rami Yacoub (Kobalt) are fourth after helping to write Nicki
Australian, Brazilian and South Korean. Led by Harris, UK
songwriters make up 34.3% of the Top 100 with the US marginally ahead with a 36.7% share. Around one-fifth of the chart is made up of writers from the rest of Europe with France, the Netherlands and Norway among the nations represented. A second songwriters chart
Minaj’s Starships and a run of hits for One Direction. Universal-published Coldplay are fifth after scoring with Paradise and their Rihanna duet Princess Of China two of the biggest hits of their career.
Music Week’s annual
songwriters chart has been newly extended from a Top 50 to a Top 100 with the top end of the countdown a geographical mix including Brits, Americans, Swedes, a Belgian-Australian,
based on the 20 top-selling artist albums of last year places Emeli Sande in first position with Sony/ATV/EMI colleague Ed Sheeran second thanks not only to his own album + but him co-writing two songs on One Direction’s Take Me Home album. The year’s other successful
album songwriters included Mumford & Sons, Lana Del Rey
and Neil Diamond. Turn to pages 16 - 18 to read Music Week’s 2012 songwriting Business Analysis in full
Dance music business: we’ve grown up
It’s a movement known for big parties, big characters and a fair bit of naughtiness. But the newly formed Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) has pointed to a now ‘grown-up’ genre that makes it possible for ‘serious rivals’ to come together and form one voice for the currently booming electronic music industry. AFEM, which launched at Midem on Monday, is the first new global genre-based trade body to launch since the Country Music Association in 1958.
AFEM co-ordinator Ben
Turner, who is also a partner at the International Music Summit and the manager of Richie Hawtin, told Music Week it was a “great achievement” to bring together heated business competitors from the dance world. Included in a 16-strong list of names on the association’s Board of Advisors are agents such David Levy (William Morris Endeavor), Maria May (Creative Artists Agency) and Paul Morris (AM Only). They join the likes of Live Nation’s electronic music
president James Barton, president of electronic music at Sony Music Patrick Moxey and Beatport CEO Matthew Adell.
A lot of what we do with the IMS, which I run, is about life beyond this explosion: what happens next and how do we sustain and stay where we are? That’s a big part of AFEM’s role in the future.” AFEM is keen to begin
Turner said: “The people
leading the electronic genre now are in their early Forties. Everyone’s grown up and matured and, while this is an amazing time for the genre, we have seen it come and go before.
lobbying outside the music industry towards government and tech companies, but says its first priority is to commission empirical research into the value of the genre. Said Turner: “Everyone in this industry is struggling to represent
themselves to brands or investors and we’re in a position at the moment where there are all sorts of people swirling around this industry and trying to get a piece of it. We need to be able to talk about our worth and the value of what we do.” Nile Rodgers has been named as an ambassador for the group, for which he said he was “honoured” and “delighted to see the industry pulling together to
represent its interests”. Turn to pages 2-3 to read our Midem 2013 news special
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