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02.08.13 MusicWeek 3
TWO NEW FESTIVALS COMING NEXT YEAR AFTER SUCCESSFUL HYDE PARK DEBUT
AEG sets its sights on pop festival opportunity LIVE
BY RHIAN JONES A
EG Live has revealed plans to expand on the UK’s pop festival
offering after its “most successful summer yet”. As well as debuting the ten-
day Barclaycard British Summer Time gigs in Hyde Park, the promoter hosted Rockness, the Capital Radio Summertime Ball, North East Live in Sunderland and Alton Towers Live. Its final live event of the summer - Liverpool’s International Music Festival - will take place on August 24. AEG is now working on launching two new events for 2014: South West Live and South East Live to “identify the lack of a real pop festival in the UK,” said the company’s president of international touring Rob Hallett (pictured at Hyde Park). “We’re looking at lots of opportunities in the open air
yearly gigs at the venue are “integral to [AEG’s] overall strategy,” and will get “bigger and better every year,” said Hallett. “This summer is a real
landmark for AEG and a real launch pad for our outdoor event business which is really coming of age,” he added. “It’s the busiest we’ve had as a relatively young company and I’m really proud of the way the whole team knitted together and got through that incredible period.” The run of Hyde Park gigs
space. We enacted a couple of festivals this year which are all based on our concept of the pop thing and we’re going to expand that next year,” he explained. “We’re going to put on South
West Live and South East Live so we have them all around the country. V Festival touches on pop and there are a couple of
MARKET SHARES WEEK 30: TOP 75 SHARE BY CORPORATE GROUP
ARTIST SINGLES Universal 55.5% Sony 21.9% Warner 12.9% Others 9.6%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 43.3% Sony 22.4% Warner 18.1% Others 16.3%
YEAR TO DATE: TOTAL MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP
SINGLES Universal 40.5% Sony 21.8% Warner 13.1% EMI 3.6% Others 19.1% Ministry - 1.9% Macklemore - 1.3% XL Beggars - 1.2% Nettwerk - 0.8% Demon - 0.4%
WEEK 30: TOP 75 SHARE BY RECORD COMPANY YEAR TO DATE: TOTAL MARKET SHARES BY RECORD COMPANY
ARTIST SINGLES Virgin/EMI 27.8% Polydor 14.5% RCA Label Group 11.4% Island 10.4% Atlantic 9.2% Columbia 8.4%
Others 17.9% Nettwerk - 3.3% Epic - 2.1% Parlophone - 1.9% Warner Bros - 1.8% Domino - 1.6% Macklemore - 1.5% Ministry - 1.3% UMTV - 1.2% Island/DefJam - 0.8% Decca - 0.6%
ARTIST ALBUMS Virgin/EMI 15.8% Polydor 14.7% RCA Label Group 13.5% Island 9% Atlantic 7.4% Columbia 6.4% Parlophone 5%
Others 28.7% Warner Bros - 4.7% Decca - 4.2% Nettwerk - 4% XL/Beggars - 3.5% Epic - 2.5% X2 - 1.4% Macklemore - 1.2% ATP - 1.1% Dramatico - 1.1% Rhino - 0.9%
Domino - 0.5%
Ignition - 0.9% Round - 0.9% Infectious - 0.6% PIAS - 0.6% Delta - 0.5%
SINGLES RCA 13% Polydor 11.1% Island 10.4% Virgin/EMI 7.4% Atlantic - 6.4% Columbia - 6% Warner Bros - 5.2% Mercury - 3.7% Virgin - 2.5% Parlophone - 2.4% Others - 31.9%
ALBUMS RCA Label Group - 9.6% Columbia - 8.8% Polydor - 7.5% Warner Bros - 6.2% Island - 5.8% Virgin/EMI - 5.4% Atlantic - 5% Decca - 4.2% Rhino - 3.5% Mercury - 3.3% Others - 40.7%
ALBUMS Universal 34.5% Sony 20.6% Warner 16.2% EMI 4.9% Others 23.9% XL Beggars - 2.3% Demon - 0.9% Union Square - 0.8% Ignition - 0.6% Nettwerk - 0.6% Dramatico - 0.5%
little council events but there isn’t really a commercial pop festival around at the moment.” AEG outdoor events this year billed names such as Robbie Williams, JLS, Little Mix, Olly Murs, Rizzle Kicks, The Wanted and Rita Ora. Hyde Park headliners included The Rolling Stones, Lionel Richie and
Jennifer Lopez. The company won the five-
year tender last November to host events in the landmark London location after Live Nation didn’t renew its contract with The Royal Parks, citing noise restrictions and issues around crowd considerations as reasons for the decision. The
included the Rolling Stones second date at the park this year – where they played to 65,000 music fans. In addition to the ‘big
weekend shows,’ from Monday to Thursday, the site gave visitors the chance to get involved with smaller, more intimate events offering film, music, literature, sport and a
specific family day. Read the full AEG interview on pages 12 -13.
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