20 MusicWeek 02.08.13 PUBLISHING SPECIAL Q2 SONGWRITING ANALYSIS Q2 2013 TOP UK HIT SONGWRITERS
POS WRITER(S) PUBLISHER(S)) 01 MICHAEL ROSENBERG AKA PASSENGER Sony/ATV 02 DANIEL SMITH Universal 03 KESI DRYDEN, PIERS AGGETT, AMIR IZADKHAH (RUDIMENTAL)Sony/ATV 04 SAM SMITHSony/ATV 05 GUY LAWRENCE, HOWARD LAWRENCE (DISCLOSURE) Universal 06 ADAM DYMENT AKA DUKE DUMONT BMG 07 OLLIE JACOBS, PHILLIP JACOBS, CAMILLE JACOBS, Wixen 09 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS Sony/ATV 09 EDWARD “JONNY” HARRIS Bucks 10 JAMES NEWMAN CC 11 ELLIE GOULDING Global Talent 12 SHAHID KHAN AKA NAUGHTY BOYSony/ATV 13 JAMES NAPIERUniversal 14 OLLY MURS Universal 15 ALEXANDER GRANT AKA ALEX DA KID Universal 16 ALUNAGEORGE Universal 17 THE 1975Warner/Chappell 18 ED DREWETT Warner/Chappell 19 JAMES ELIOT Sony/ATV 20= UZOECHI EMENIKE AKA MNEK Sony/ATV 21= AMINATA KABBA AKA A*M*E Kobalt
The above chart shows the top UK songwriters of Q2 2013 based on shares of the UK’s 100 biggest-selling singles of the quarter Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
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months, while follow-up Can’t Hold Us attracted 432,653 takers. Bastille frontman Daniel Smith and Bruno Mars
and his Smeezingtons colleagues are also among the Top 10 hit songwriters for another quarter with Universal-signed Smith sixth this time after individually writing his band’s singles Pompeii and Laura Palmer. The first quarter’s leading hit songwriters,
BMG’s Mars, Warner/Chappell’s Philip Lawrence and Universal-signed Ari Levine are placed fifth for Q2 after three of their creations finished among the quarter’s Top 100. All three cuts are taken from Mars’ second album Unorthodox Jukebox and comprise (in Q2 sales order) When I Was Your Man, Treasure and Locked Out Of Heaven. Rudimental topped the UK singles chart during
the quarter for the second time with Waiting All Night and this helps to take the group’s Sony/ATV-
Q2 2013 TOP 50 HIT SONGWRITERS POS WRITER(S) PUBLISHER(S))
01 PHARRELL WILLIAMS Sony/ATV 02 MICHAEL ROSENBERG AKA PASSENGER Sony/ATV 03 BEN HAGGERTY AKA MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS Kobalt 04 THOMAS BANGALTER AND GUY-MANUEL DE HOMEM-CHRISTO (DAFT PUNK)Imagem 05 THE SMEEZINGTONS (PETER HERNANDEZ AKA BRUNO MARS, PHILIP LAWRENCE, ARI LEVINE) BMG, Warner/Chappell, Universal 06 DANIEL SMITH Universal 07 KESI DRYDEN, PIERS AGGETT, AMIR IZADKHAH AKA AMIR AMOR (RUDIMENTAL) Sony/ATV 08 NILE RODGERS Sony/ATV 09 ROBIN THICKE Universal 10 SAM SMITH Sony/ATV 11 GUY LAWRENCE, HOWARD LAWRENCE (DISCLOSURE) Universal 12 ADAM DYMENT AKA DUKE DUMONT BMG 13 OLLIE JACOBS, PHILLIP JACOBS, CAMILLE JACOBS, Wixen 14 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS Sony/ATV 15 IMAGINE DRAGONS (BEN MCKEE, WAYNE SERMON, DAN REYNOLDS) Universal 16= EDWARD “JONNY” HARRIS Bucks 16= JAMES NEWMAN CC 18 JEREMY FRAITES, WESLEY SCHULTZ (THE LUMINEERS) Kobalt 19 ELLIE GOULDING Global Talent 20 SHAHID KHAN AKA NAUGHTY BOY Sony/ATV 21 JAI PARK AKA PSYPublisher in dispute 22 JAMES NAPIER Universal 23 TAYLOR YORK, HAYLEY WILLIAMS (PARAMORE) Warner/Chappell 24 TAYLOR SWIFT Sony/ATV
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published members Kesi Dryden, Piers Aggett and Amir Amor to No 7 on the songwriters chart. Their colleague DJ Locksmith is not credited as a writer of the track, which instead the trio penned with James Newman and Bucks’ Jonny Harris who share 16th place. Last autumn Sam Smith scored his first ever UK hit as featured vocalist on Disclosure’s Latch and he now finds himself side by side with the duo on Q2’s songwriting ranks. Smith finishes just ahead of them in 10th position thanks to his significant contribution to Naughty Boy’s chart-topping La La La as well as winning more traction for Latch, while Disclosure’s Universal-signed pair of brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence are 11th with Latch joined by White Noise and You And Me in the quarter-end Top 100. Naughty Boy, like Smith signed to Sony/ATV, finishes himself as the 20th top songwriter, while
Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
25 CLAUDE KELLY Warner/Chappell 26 EELKE KALBERG, SEBASTIAAN MOLIJN Bucks, Universal 27 A-HA Sony/ATV 28 OLLY MURS Universal 29 THE Y’S (JAMES FAUNTLEROY, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) Universal 30= MARVIN GAYE Sony/ATV 30= CHRIS MALINCHAK Sony/ATV 32 ALEXANDER GRANT AKA ALEX DA KID Universal 33= JEFFREY BHASKER Sony/ATV 33= ALECIA MOORE AKA PINK Sony/ATV 33= NATE RUESS Warner/Chappell 36 ALUNAGEORGEUniversal 37 THE 1975 Warner/Chappell 38 JEROME HARMON AKA J-ROC, TIMOTHY MOSLEY AKA TIMBALAND Warner/Chappell 39=ED DREWETT Warner/Chappell 40= JAMES ELIOT Sony/ATV 41= UZOECHI EMENIKE AKA MNEK Sony/ATV 41= AMINATA KABBA AKA A*M*E Kobalt 43 KARL MARTIN SANDBERG AKA MAX MARTIN Kobalt 44 FREDDIE PERREN, DINO FEKARIS Universal 45 AL-HAKAM EL KAUBAISY AKA KOMI Sony/ATV 46 KARL SCHUSTER AKA SHELLBACK Kobalt 47 JOSHUA COLEMAN AKA AMMOKobalt 48 JESSICA CORNISH AKA JESSIE J Sony/ATV 49 JOHN RZEZNIK (GOO GOO DOLLS) BMG 50 DANIEL O’DONOGHUE, MARK SHEEHAN (THE SCRIPT) Imagem
The above chart shows the top hit songwriters of Q2 2013 based on shares of the UK’s 100 biggest-selling singles of the quarter
BMG’s Duke Dumont adds to a strong British presence with his chart-topping breakthrough Need U (100%) taking him to 12th position. Its two co- writers and featured vocalists, Kobalt’s A*M*E and Sony/ATV’s MNEK, are joint 41st on the songwriters countdown. The trio are among 23 UK songwriters on the
Top 50 chart this time, representing a 46% share and up from quarter one (42.2%), while US talent make up 40% of the countdown. Despite France’s Daft Punk riding high, acts from the rest of Europe see their share drop between quarters from 21.6% to 12% as an Anglo-American domination takes hold. In a period in which he was named Ivor Novello
Awards Songwriter of the Year, Sony/ATV’s Calvin Harris yet again co-wrote one of the quarter’s 10 biggest-selling singles. It was the fourth successive quarter he had done so with Don’t Wake Me Up (Q3 2012), Sweet Nothing (Q4 2012) and Drinking
Q2 2013 TOP 20 ALBUM SONGWRITERS POS WRITER(S) PUBLISHER(S))
01 THOMAS BANGALTER AND GUY-MANUEL DE HOMEM-CHRISTO (DAFT PUNK)Imagem 02 ROD STEWART Sony/ATV 03 MICHAEL ROSENBERG AKA PASSENGER Sony/ATV 04 DANIEL SMITH Universal 05 KESI DRYDEN, PIERS AGGETT, AMIR IZADKHAH (RUDIMENTAL) Sony/ATV 06 KELLY JONESUniversal 07 THE SMEEZINGTONS (PETER HERNANDEZ AKA BRUNO MARS, PHILIP LAWRENCE, ARI LEVINE) BMG, Warner/Chappell, Universal 08 EMELI SANDE Sony/ATV 09 IMAGINE DRAGONS (BEN MCKEE, WAYNE SERMON, DAN REYNOLDS) Universal 10 TAYLOR YORK, HAYLEY WILLIAMS (PARAMORE) Warner/Chappell 11 BLACK SABBATHBlizzard, Chelsea, CC 12 ADAM WILES AKA CALVIN HARRIS Sony/ATV 13 GUY LAWRENCE, HOWARD LAWRENCE (DISCLOSURE) Universal 14 THE Y’S (JAMES FAUNTLEROY, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) Universal 15 ALECIA MOORE AKA PINK Sony/ATV 16 JAKE KENNEDY AKA JAKE BUGGKobalt 17 JEROME HARMON AKA J-ROC, TIMOTHY MOSLEY AKA TIMBALAND Warner/Chappell 18 VINCENT DEGIORGIO Collect Music 19 ELLIE GOULDING Global Talent
20 DAVID SCHREURS CC The above chart shows the top album songwriters of Q2 2013 based on shares of the UK’s 20 biggest-selling artist albums of the quarter Source: Music Week research/Official Charts Company data
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