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GIGS OF THE WEEK HERTFORDSHIRE
Who: Standon Calling Where: Standon, Hertfordshire When: August 2-4
Why: The annual festival returns this sum- mer with a ‘Running Away From The Circus’ theme. Artists to headline include Band Of Skulls, De La Soul and Digitalism.
DIGITAL VS 37.9%
61.2%
MANCHESTER
Who: Pitbull Where: Manchester Academy, Manchester When: August 6 Why: The US rapper
comes to the North during a string of UK dates to support his seventh studio album Global Warming. His latest single Outta Nowhere is out now.
PHYSICAL 38.1%
61%
TOP 5 STORIES ON
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Musicweek.com’s most-read stories for period ending July 29
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Major label bidding war... for David Brent Monday, July 29 DJ agency TFA Bookings joins MN2S Tuesday, July 23 Grooveshark removed from Google autocomplete Wednesday, July 24 Rupert Hine announced as new patron of The Songwriting Charity Friday, July 26 Boxd Records launches as 'one-stop shop' for artists Friday, July 26
LONDON
Who: Laura Jansen Where: St Pancras Old Church, London When: August 8 Why: The
Dutch/American songwriter comes to the capital after releasing her UK debut album Elba. The record includes singles Same Heart and Queen of Elba.
INK SPOTS
Too busy to read the music press? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you.
On the front of this month’s Classic Rock magazine, Guns N’Roses + Deep Purple x Def Leppard =
40.9% 58.3% 39.6% 59.5% 36% 63.2%
WkS 26-30 The UK market share for all albums in the past five weeks
DIGITAL CD
MUSIC WEEK POLL
This week we asked... Do you think Jay Z’s 1m Samsung released Magna Carta…Holy Grail copies should have qualified for the Billboard charts? Vote at
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the nine-member “Billion Dollar Supergroup” that is Kings Of Chaos. Inside, a review of the band’s live show reveals a “cracking time for everybody involved.” Elsewhere, Andy McCoy and Mike
Monroe of Hanoi Rocks look back on “revolutionising rock’n’roll” after moving from Finland to London thirty years ago “to invent the move- ment that would inspire a million bands in LA.” Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons
reveal ‘the myths, the movies and the make-up’ as Kiss celebrate their 40th anniversary. Meanwhile, Queens Of The Stone
Age frontman Josh Homme emerges with “a new lease of life” after a “near-death experience and prolonged depression.” In the reviews pages, The
YES: 17%
@MarleyWills The boss @chrisoutside keeps laughing hysterically from his office and its plain weird. (Melissa Nathan, Outside Organisation)
Monday, July 22
@JulianRupert That white stripe with font on top thing has become such a trend hasn't it… Lana, Kendrick, A$AP, Bowie, Jay Z... Now Icona Pop (Julian
Baddeley, Polydor Records) Tuesday, July 23
@SoundCity Will I Am has announced an arena tour of the UK. That's Nan’s birthday gift sorted then. (Liverpool Sound City) Wednesday, July 24
@ArrJayEll You do know that if I were in charge of festivals I'd have Warning, a Whitney Houston tribute act, Red Fang, Cave In and Prince playing.
(Rebecca Laverty, Pioneer Music Press) Wednesday, July 24
NO: 83%
@rossprimary There is a special place in my heart for M People, Lighthouse Family, UB40 and Lisa Stansfield. (Ross Morrison, Primary Talent)
Wednesday, July 24
@andydaniell I worry that as the underground moves as far away from EDM as it can it forgets that one cru- cial thing, FUN! (Andy Daniell,
Defected Records) Thursday, July 25
@LewJam so kind of #6music to remind me just how much I hate Madonna’s output (Lewis Jamieson, Loudhailer Press) Thursday, July 25
@joeparry Just saw Damon Albarn on a bike #westlondon (Joe Parry, Division PR) Thursday, July 25
Quireboys latest album Beautiful Curse gets 8/10 from Kris Needs. “Unrepentant, undimmed and a welcome blast of smoky air.” Polly Glass isn’t so impressed with 42 Decibel’s Hard Rock’N’Roll. “Zero marks for creative thinking, but impossible to not enjoy,” she says.
LIFE IS TWEET WE FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY’S FINEST
@natalie_ihw One Direction make up range includes “What Makes You Beautiful cheek tints”. Sounds like it’ll do wonders for girls and their self
esteem (Natalie Webb, IntoMobiles) Thursday, July 25
TWEET OF THE WEEK @leethommo On Fri night, a big- cheese TV Exec told me majors were to blame for no UK weekly music show as they won't commit to the biggest
acts. True?! (Lee Thompson, BT TV) Monday, July 29
@ArtfulNoiseUK Haha everyone being signed up to James Blunts mailing list! Good marketing or a faux pas? (Peter Cornish-Barlow, Artful Noise)
Monday, July 29
@EmmaJayMarsh Some of these genres that producers put on SoundCloud is amazing, today’s best is ‘Swag Sauce’... (Emma Marsh,
Twist Management) Monday, July 29 Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with these head-spinning facts and figures...
307,584
Sales in the first week of release means the Now That’s What I Call Music! 85 compilation sold more copies than the entire Top 75 artist albums last week
120
Years old and the Musicians Union today boasts over 30,000 members
$80m
In estimated earnings between June 2012 and June 2013 means Lady Gaga tops the Forbes Celebrities Under 30 rich list. The singer’s third album Artpop is out on November 11, lead single Applause is out on August 19
19
Years at BBC Radio and Tim Westwood is leaving the sta- tion after a series of sched- uled changes. The DJ joined Radio 1 in 1994 to present the station’s first rap show and has been a key part of the Radio 1Xtra schedule over the years
£100m
Spent on music by brands such as Coca Cola, O2, Blackberry and Volkswagen in 2012, PRS For Music
research has revealed. Artist endorsements or ‘sponsor- ship’ saw a 33% increase in brand spend from 2011 and brought in over £4.5m
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