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TOP 10 SINGLES Q2 2013 POS ARTIST/ TITLE / (WRITER) / PUBLISHER
1 DAFT PUNK FEAT. PHARRELL WILLIAMS Get Lucky (Bangalter, Homem-Christo, Williams, Rodgers) Imagem, Sony/ATV
2 ROBIN THICKE FEAT. TI & PHARRELL WILLIAMS Blurred Lines (Williams, Thicke) Sony/ATV, Universal
3 PASSENGER Let Her Go (Rosenberg) Sony/ATV
4 NAUGHTY BOY FEAT. SAM SMITH La La La (Khan, Smith, El Kaubaisy, Murray, Omer, Coffer, Mbabazi) Sony/ATV, Universal, Kobalt, CC
5 RUDIMENTAL FEAT. ELLA EYREWaiting All Night (Aggett, Amor, Dryden, Newman, Harris) Bucks, Sony/ATV, Universal
6 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FEAT. RAY DALTON Can’t Hold Us (Haggerty, Lewis) Kobalt
7 DUKE DUMONT FEAT. A*M*E & MNEK Need U (100 Percent) (Dyment, Kabba, Emenike) BMG, Kobalt, Sony/ATV
8 PINK FEAT. NATE RUESS Just Give Me A Reason (Bhasker, Moore, Ruess) Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappell
9 CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. ELLIE GOULDING I Need Your Love (Goulding, Wiles) Global Talent, Sony/ATV
10 OLLY MURS Dear Darlin’ (Murs, Eliot, Drewett) Sony/ATV, Universal, Warner/Chappell
From The Bottle (Q1 2013) followed by I Need Your Love, which he co-penned with Ellie Goulding. His incredible run would have stretched back over five quarters but Call My Name, his chart- topper for Cheryl, just fell short as the 11th top- selling single during the second quarter of last year. I Need Your Love, which sold 313,083 copies in
the quarter, plus additional business from Drinking From The Bottle with Tinie Tempah takes Harris to 14th on Q2’s songwriters chart, while Global Talent’s Goulding is 19th. Several names from the past make it onto the
countdown, led by Norwegian pop heroes A-Ha who are at 27 after Pitbull sampled their Sony/ATV-published Take On Me on his hit Feel
This Moment featuring Christina Aguilera. The track was the quarter’s 17th most popular single. Just outselling it over the three months was
Chris Malinchak’s Ministry of Sound-issued single So Good To Me, which utilises If This World Were Mine, a song penned by Marvin Gaye and the B- side to his 1967 single If I Could Build My Whole World Around You with Tammi Terrell. Gaye and Malinchak have an equal share of the 2013 hit, taking them to joint 30th on the songwriters chart, with Sony/ATV claiming 100% control as Malinchak is on their books, while Gaye’s share comes via Motown’s Jobete catalogue which it now
ABOVE
One more time: Daft Punk made a spectacular return in Q2
manages since taking over EMI Music Publishing. In the same year Gaye issued Here, My Dear, an album made to part-fund his divorce, Gloria Gaynor arrived with her biggest hit yet with I Will Survive. The 1978 single, which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic the following year, was covered in Q2 by The Voice contestant Leah McFall and shifted 86,327 copies. The revival places its two Universal-published writers Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris at 44 on the songwriters chart. Besides I Will Survive, Perren, who passed away
in 2004, also wrote with Fekaris hits such as Peaches & Herb’s Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper Reunited.
ALBUMS FOCUS: OLD MASTER STEWART HAS HIS TIME AGAIN IN Q2 AS DAFT PUNK TAKE THE HELM
Two acts making contrasting comebacks led Q2’s album songwriters chart as Daft Punk headed the rankings and Rod Stewart took second place. In the case of Daft Punk the French duo not only
returned to their commercial peak of the beginning of the century, but effortlessly outsold all that came before as Random Access Memories delivered them a first UK chart- topping album.
The Columbia release shifted an unrivalled 295,561
copies over the three months, according to the Official Charts Company, placing Imagem-signed Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo at the top of Music Week’s exclusive chart ranking songwriters album sales performance. The chart is compiled from writing shares of the Top 20 artist albums of the quarter. Daft Punk’s album features a stellar cast of writing
collaborators including Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers and veteran US songwriter and ASCAP president Paul Williams, although none of them makes it into our Q2 chart. With the case of Rod Stewart (pictured), his comeback
was not based on commercial grounds as the past decade has seen him achieve huge sales success with the likes of the Great American Songbook albums. However, Q2 did mark a comeback for him as a singer of original material with Time his first album of largely self-penned songs in a couple of decades. The Celtic fan co-wrote 11 of the album’s 12 tracks, the biggest songwriting contribution he has made to an album during his long career, and with Time shifting 235,366
copies by quarter’s end he finishes as runner-up on our songwriters chart. A long-time part of EMI Publishing, Stewart now has his catalogue managed by Sony/ATV following the 2012 takeover of its rival. Just missing out on a place on the countdown is Kevin
Savigar who has co-penned Rod Stewart classics such as Young Turks and Every Beat Of My Heart and collaborated on six of the songs on the new album. He is now looked after by Wixen, via a deal it signed earlier this year with Verse Music Group.
Second on the songwriters chart based on singles sales,
Sony/ATV’s Passenger man Michael Rosenburg is at 3 on the equivalent albums countdown after his Nettwerk-issued All The Lights sold 138,017 copies in the quarter. He is one of four acts in our Top 20 chart to have written their current album entirely alone with Universal-signed Daniel Smith at 4
after penning his band Bastille’s Bad Blood, the same publisher’s Kelly Jones at 6 thanks to Stereophonics’ eighth studio set Graffiti On The Train and Black Sabbath at 11 after they topped the UK chart for the first time since 1970. The album 13 was also the first studio offering with Ozzy Osbourne in the line-up in 35 years. Rudimental are at 5 after topping the weekly artist albums chart with debut Home, while the set’s collaborators included their Sony/ATV colleague Emeli Sande who falls from runner-up place on Q2’s chart to eighth this time. Her score is made up of contributions to Home and her own debut Our Version Of Events and just above her at 7 is the Smeezingtons trio of Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine. Released right at the beginning of Q2, Night Visions
provided a significant UK breakthrough for Las Vegas band Imagine Dragons and takes them to 9 on our chart. Although the bulk of the album was written by the group, it does feature contributions from LA-based Brit and fellow Universal writer Alex Da Kid. Paramore’s self-titled album, which topped the UK chart
in April, was similarly mainly written by the band with most of the tracks penned by Warner/Chappell-signed Hayley Williams and Taylor York to place them at No 10. Calvin Harris, Pink, Jake Bugg and Ellie Goulding all
make appearances again thanks to continuing demand for their 2012 albums. Vincent DeGiorgio at 18 and David Schreurs at 20 contributed to Caro Emerald’s chart-topping The Shocking Miss Emerald.
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