4 MusicWeek 17.01.14 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
nGOOGLE: IFPI chief executive Frances Moore has said Google needs to take more meaningful action to help curb online copyright infringement. The international music trade body has added yet more pressure to the online search giant, with Moore highlighting Google’s role in “directing internet users to illegal sources of music” and suggesting that promises to up its efforts in the battle against piracy have not been met. nSONY/ATV: The publisher has reached a settlement with the family of Marvin Gaye that will ensure the company isn’t implicated in a legal battle between the party and the team behind Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. n DELOITTE: The financial services firm has forecast a rise in performance rights revenues to more than £600m ($1 billion) for first time in 2014. “Performance rights should continue to grow over the next few years and are likely to be the fastest growing industry segment,” said the company’s lead media partner Neil Allcock. “Over time performance rights revenues should reach £1.2 billion ($2 billion), although the timing for this is uncertain as yet.” nBRITS: Kylie Minogue has been unveiled as the face of MasterCard’s sponsorship of the BRIT Awards 2014. Laura Mvula will also be an ambassador for the company's ‘Priceless’ campaign. The partnership is now in its 16th successive year and has been extended for a further three. nTHE VOICE: The BBC’s talent show saw viewing figures for the opening programme of the third series rise 2 million year-on-year on Saturday night. BBC bosses have brought forward The Voice in 2014 after previous runs began around Easter. The earlier launch means that the BBC has avoided a repeat of the scheduling wars with Simon Cowell's ITV show Britain's Got Talent. nBEATS MUSIC: The streaming service will launch in the US on January 21 complete with an exclusive AT&T partnership. It will feature a catalogue of more than 20 million licensed songs from all the major labels as well as independent labels. Beats has said it is “committed to the principle that music has real value and will be acting accordingly by paying the same royalty rate to all content
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Red Bull sticks with music TV L
MEDIA n BY TIM INGHAM
aunched at Red Bull Studios is now the UK’s second longest-running
music series on terrestrial TV, after making a successful return to Channel 4 this year. The programme is created in-
house by the production team in Universal Music’s Globe division. It returned for a third series
on Channel 4 earlier this month, with the first episode airing on January 4. Unlike the previous two series, which have offers ten 15-minute programmes, this year’s effort is comprised of five half-hour shows. The format of the programme
sees successful artist ‘ambassadors’ who have played on the show before returning to support and praise new acts - who then perform live in the Red Bull London studios. The emerging
artists appearing include the BRIT Award-winning Sam Smith (pictured performing on the programme), as well as Ella Eyre, George Ezra and Amber Run. This week’s episode showcases Royal Blood and Gorgon City. Two artists are featured per
The ambassadors on the
current series include Rudimental, Rita Ora, Mark Owen, Yannis Philippakis (Foals), Malay, Guy Lawrence (Disclosure), Will Kennard (Chase & Status), Tom Odell and Bastille frontman Dan Smith. Channel 4 ditched its long-
running ‘youth’ entertainment series, T4, in 2012. It subsequently trialled two music-centred pilots on Friday nights last year: the Nick Grimshaw-fronted That Music Show and Rizzle Kicks vehicle Smells Like Friday. Despite an initial plan to
“You have to give credit to Red Bull. A lot of brands come to [music TV] and then disappear soon after” IAIN FUNNELL, GLOBE PRODUCTIONS
episode, both performing and being interviewed by presenter Annie Mac, as well as receiving their due plaudits from their famous ‘ambassador’. With three series under
its belt, the programme - which usually airs shortly after midnight on a weekday - is now only behind BBC2’s Later... in terms of modern music show longevity on terrestrial TV. “That’s both good and quite
scary at the same time,” GM at Globe Productions Iain Funnell
David Joseph applauds a ‘reinvigorated’ EMI
Universal Music UK boss David Joseph has applauded his company’s new guard after
clocking up 26 nominations for the BRIT Awards 2014. The nominees are spread
across 18 artists – 10 of them new names - and across four of the company’s frontline pop labels: Polydor, Island, Virgin EMI and Capitol Records UK. Leading the list are two
artists who only released their debut albums in 2013 - Island’s Disclosure and Virgin EMI’s Bastille.
Virgin EMI launched in
2013 following EMI’s purchase by Universal Music. The company notched up the most BRIT nominations, with 11 in total. Universal Music UK chairman
David Joseph said: “I am very proud to see so much exciting new talent among our nominations for this year’s BRITs and also to see the success of Virgin EMI. “We came into 2013 facing
scepticism about what the EMI purchase would mean for the labels’ identities so it was great to see Virgin, reinvigorated as Virgin EMI, back on top in its 40th year.”
told Music Week. “You have to give credit to Red Bull. A lot of brands come into music and they’re here for a bit then disappear again. “After we lost PopWorld,
CD:UK and Top Of The Pops from TV, things still felt kind of okay [for music shows] because Vodafone stepped in with TBA, Nokia did Green Room, T- Mobile did Transmission. But they’ve all gone now, maybe moving on to film or sport. Red Bull have made a commitment to music - it’s part of their brand.”
commission one of the shows for a full series, both pilots disappointed in terms of ratings and have not been commissioned. Funnell told Music Week
that he was hopeful that Channel 4 would eventually come good on its pledge to replace T4 with a new series “a to provide a bigger platform for music”. He said: ”Those pilots
obviously went out far apart at different timeslots. Channel 4 probably felt there might still be something better out there. “This year and next year
will be really interesting, seeing what they come up with. Maybe [those pilot programmes] weren’t a big enough leap.”
Canada: Digital LPs grow
Digital albums sales rose 9% year-on-year in Canada in 2013, while digital singles were up 2%. That’s according to Nielsen
SoundScan data, which shows an increase in digital album sales from 10.5 million in 2012 to 11.4 million last year, and digital singles moving from 114.3 million to 116.1 million. The Canadian figures
contrast to those in the US, where digital album sales dropped for the first time in 2013 as the overall albums sector declined by 8.4%. Total album sales (physical
and digital) in Canada were down 6% year-on-year from 31.3 million to 29.3 million, while overall album sales (all albums plus track equivalent
albums) were down 4% - from 42.7 million to 40.9 million. Physical albums sales
slumped 15%, with 17.6 million sold in 2013 compared to 20.6 million in 2012. Eminem’s Marshall Mathers
LP 2 was the top selling album in Canada, shifting 242,000 units, followed by Celine Dion’s Loved Me Back To Life with 231,000 sales. Robin Thicke’s Blurred
Lines was the top selling digital track with 692,000 sold, followed by Avicii’s Wake Me Up with 519,000. The best selling digital
album of 2013 was Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions, which sold 100,000 units, followed by Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP2 with 87,000.
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