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20.09.13 MusicWeek 13
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Naughty Boy sends Virgin to top of class: La La La was one of Q2’s biggest hits
Q2 2013 CURRENT UK-SOURCED ALBUMS TOP 10 POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL 1 RUDIMENTAL HOME Asylum 2 EMELI SANDÉ Our Version Of Events Virgin 3 PASSENGER All The Little Lights Nettwerk 4 BASTILLE Bad Blood Virgin 5 CALVIN HARRIS 18 Months Columbia 6 STEREOPHONICS Graffiti On The Train Stylus 7 OLLY MURS Right Place Right Time Epic 8 DISCLOSURE Settle PMR 9 JAKE BUGG Jake Bugg Mercury 10 ELLIE GOULDING Halcyon Polydor
Q2 2013 TOP 10 ALBUMS LABELS BASED ON UK SIGNINGS/A&R’D ACTS
VIRGIN 11.7%
COLUMBIA 8.3% ASYLUM 8.0%
POLYDOR 6.8% NETTWERK 4.9% MERCURY 4.5%
Bastille. These were the second and fourth top UK- sourced albums of Q2 after clocking up 150,840 and 131,667 further sales between April and June. Sony was also lacking in any blockbuster new
British albums with its leading title entering the market, Columbia act Beady Eye’s Be, attracting 46,449 buyers by quarter’s end, and like Universal relied instead on existing releases such as Calvin Harris’s Columbia-issued 18 Months and Epic act Olly Murs’ Right Place Right Time to boost its numbers. As a consequence its UK A&R albums market share fell from 25.0% in Q1 to 22.9% as the independents leapt above it. Warner made gains between quarters, largely as a
result of the release of Asylum act Rudimental’s debut Home, which sold 193,358 copies in the quarter, more than any other UK-sourced album. However, its 14.8% A&R market share (up from 13.7% in Q1) was still significantly behind Sony, although its score would have risen to 17.3% with the addition of Parlophone Label Group, which the major took control of at the beginning of the following quarter. Despite Universal’s overall score declining on a
quarterly and annual basis, it still owned the three biggest record companies for UK-sourced albums and the top label – Virgin Records – which had an 11.7% share thanks to releases by Emeli Sandé, Bastille, Laura Marling and KT Tunstall. The label’s parent company Virgin EMI, which also houses Mercury, was the quarter’s leading record company for albums by domestically-signed or A&R’d acts with a 16.4% market share that took in all the Virgin releases as well as the likes of titles by Jake Bugg and Bo Bruce, the biggest albums success so far from BBC 1’s The Voice. Polydor finished second on our A&R albums
table for record companies with a 10.1% share that mainly comprised successes from the Polydor label such as Ellie Goulding’s Halycon, but also included contributions from affiliated labels Atlas (James Blake), Fiction (Seasick Steve), Global Talent (Lawson) and Xtra Mile (Frank Turner). Fellow Universal-owned Island Records’ A&R
interests were equally wide with a variety of labels collectively securing third place among record companies with a 9.2% A&R market share. The biggest contributor to this score was PMR (3.5%),
which was behind Disclosure’s album and Jessie Ware’s Devotion, while the Island label itself was led by Ben Howard’s Every Kingdom and Jamie Cullum’s Momentum, his first album since moving over from Decca. There were also continuing decent numbers for the Island-affiliated Gentlemen Of The Road release Babel by Mumford & Sons. RCA’s 8.6% share was enough to place it as the
fourth biggest albums record company for UK- sourced albums with this score almost equally divided between the RCA label (3.9%) and Syco (3.6%). The RCA imprint’s top UK seller was Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal and Syco’s Take Me Home by One Direction, while B-Unique contributed Kodaline’s In A Perfect World. Two other Sony operations were among the Top 10 albums companies with sixth-placed Columbia’s 8.3% share including a late contribution from Brits Critic’s Choice winner Tom Odell whose Long Way Down was issued in the very last week of the quarter and debuted at No.1. Epic was eighth with a 5.9% score led by Olly Murs. Warner’s top record company in Q2 for
domestic repertoire was fifth-placed Atlantic, which owned the vast majority of its 8.6% market share to the Asylum label. Asylum alone claimed an 8.0% score, making it the third top label behind Virgin and Columbia, and this took in Rudimental and Ed Sheeran’s debuts. Warner Bros was seventh with 6.2% and relied
on a variety of labels for its score, including Warner Music Entertainment (Hugh Laurie), 14th Floor (Biffy Clyro), Future Cut/QWorks (Stooshe) and the Warner Bros label itself (Foals). Two independents made the Top 10 companies
with Nettwerk’s 4.9% share in ninth position entirely down to Passenger’s All The Little Lights, while Ignition in 10th was led by another 90,000 copies sold of Stereophonics’ Graffiti On The Train, taking its cumulative total by the year’s half-way point to above 200,000 units. Its 4.1% share also took in albums by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Primal Scream.
SINGLES FOCUS
Naughty Boy helped Virgin become the leading UK A&R label for both singles and albums in Q2 thanks to his track La La La and Emeli Sandé productions.
EPIC 3.6% PMR 3.5%
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SYCO 3.6% RCA 3.9%
6 8 10 12
Q2 2013 TOP 10 ALBUMS RECORD COMPANIES BASED ON UK SIGNINGS/A&R’D ACTS VIRGIN EMI 16.4%
POLYDOR 10.1% ISLAND 9.2% RCA 8.6%
ATLANTIC 8.6% COLUMBIA 8.3%
WARNER BROS 6.2% EPIC 5.9%
NETTWERK 4.9% 0
IGNITION 4.1% 5
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The single, featuring Sam Smith on vocals, sold 571,635 copies over the three months as Virgin claimed a 15.3% sales share of the 100 biggest- selling non-catalogue singles by UK-signed or A&R’d acts, according to Music Week research of Official Charts Company data. Naughty Boy also cropped up on other Virgin Q2 hits Clown and Wonder with Emeli Sandé, while he was the main producer of her Our Version Of Events, which led Virgin to the title of top albums label for UK repertoire for the second period running. Bastille’s Pompeii was also a big contributor to
Virgin’s A&R fortunes on singles after shifting more than 250,000 copies for the second successive quarter and finishing as the period’s 11th top seller. After ranking as top singles label for UK A&R
in Q1 Syco had a much quieter following three months, slipping to fifth place in the rankings with a 6.0% market share as only one of its tracks – Little Mix’s How Ya Doin’ featuring Missy Elliott – sold more than 100,000 copies. In the previous quarter five of its releases reached that total. The performance of Passenger’s Let Her Go
alone was enough to place Nettwerk as the second top singles label for UK A&R in Q2 with an 8.4% share. That put it just above Warner’s Atlantic- affiliated Asylum whose 8.2% share was heavily indebted to the Rudimental hit Waiting All Night
Source: Official Charts Company/Music Week research
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