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MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP CHART WEEK 23
SINGLES Universal 44.8% Warner 22.8% Sony 16.1% EMI 11.3% Others 5.0%
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UK music copyright industry worth 10 times original Government estimate - IPO Tom Bowler: “More made up stats. Great.”
Kerrang! Awards 2012 - all the winners Rich Dee: “Cant believe Kerrang readers ignored Reckless Love again! Insulting!”
Sarah: ”I’m so happy you me at six won the award for best british band, they deserve it soooooo much. Can't believe young guns didn't win the award for best album,
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Government scraps Communications Green Paper Thursday, June 7 EC preparing list of concerns over Universal/EMI bid - report Friday, June 8 YouTube reaches songwriting publishing deals Wednesday, June 6 AIM launches new Indie-Con conference Wednesday, June 6 10 Years Of Download: ‘Rock isn’t a dirty word’ Friday, June 8
bones! ah well, i loved young guns from the verry begin- ning and will always will no matter what!”
Government scraps Communications Green Paper Simon Gamble: “That makes sense. It's probably best to leave if for Jeremy Hunt's successor.”
Mark Morrison to release new single and album, embark on first worldwide tour Tuula Laitinen: “Mark Morrison makes really good music. He is a master of the art.”
MUSIC WEEK POLL
This week we asked... Is Google doing enough in the fight against piracy?
YES 43% NO 57%
ARTIST ALBUMS Universal 44.4% Sony 17.4% Warner 15.5% EMI 14.1% Others 8.6%
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In this month’s Q Magazine the untold story of the Stone Roses is flagged up as being full of genius, self-sabotage and betrayal - and doesn’t disap- point. With four years research and over 70 interviews, author of new band biography War and Peace Simon Spence spills the beans. Usher declares himself the new
Picasso when Q finds him flying through the air, affixed to a harness, 40 feet above their heads. He’s hoisted from the neck of a “blood”- splattered white suit rehearsing for his lead role in contemporary dance show Fuerza Bruta. Ricky Gervais dresses up as
George Michael and Bruce Springsteen as he explains that his job as a comedian is to lose a bit of dignity, Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj says her job is the least easy thing in the world - while charging $150K for a verse of her “ballsy cuss words”. In the review pages Scissor
Sisters hit their stride on “dazzling” fourth album Magic Hour, according to Peter Robinson. The critic gives the record four stars out of five, while Andrew Harrison declares Words And Music by Saint Etienne the pop connoisseurs’ best album for 20 years - with one star short of full marks.
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@OfficialMelB makes me sooo sad spice girls wasn't part of the queens jubilee,break my heart big time, i was so up for it, watched some of it
on tv, amazing! (Melanie Brown aka. Mel B) Tues, June 5
@SoundCity I think I've just seen Elton John's jacket from the jubilee concert for sale in a vintage shop in Soho. (Liverpool Sound City) Wednesday,
June 6
@JagzKooner1 wonder how many more festivals are going to bite the dust this year. just been told another big 1 is in trouble (im not mentioning
names) (Jagz Kooner, producer) June 6
@planetjedward I wonder if We will be the first people carrying the Olympic torch that actually look like the Olympic torch
(Jedward) Wednesday, June 6
@JimFrayling Steel toe-capped boots? Check. Hi-vis? Check. Helmet? Check. Welcome to this year's brief gig season. Can't wait. (Jim Frayling,
Wembley Stadium) Wednesday, June 6
@CaptnHollister ENOUGH scrawny English boys pretending to be old American folk singers. FRANKLY ONE IS TOO MANY.
(Hollin Jones, Serious Music), Thurs, June 7
@AllieBailey Kerrang! awards followed By Download the next day. When will I EVER learn this is a bad idea? Year after year of pain. (Allie
Bailey, Atlantic Records) Thurs, June 7
@smernicki Thanks to all the tossbag drivers who didn't stop when I was sprawled on the road after stacking my bike this morning in Richmond
Park. (Paul Smernicki, Director of Digital Universal Music UK) Thurs, June 7
@paulsdando Bands! No! "You are receiving this email so that you can learn more about [bandname]. Do not hesitate to opt out from this
list."(Paul Dando, Starfield Management) Monday, June 11
Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-minute alerts @MusicWeekNews 10 Arena dates Donny and
Marie Osmond will play for their 2013 UK tour
@bettekoady
wow...the huge roar that just came from the Sony Music canteen lets me know that some- thing eventful just happened on the
footie... (Sarah Lewin, RCA) Monday, June 11
@mistajam If you are a radio plugger, especially one who manages to tra- verse the murky, stormy water of ego between us DJs with ease; I salute
you! (MistaJam, BBC) Thursday, June 7
@SeanBHill Loving the @musicweek- news cover story about @Creamfields deal/expansion into the US. Congrats to James and his team! (Sean Hill,
Lucid) Monday, June 11
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
Amaze colleagues and bamboozle rivals with
these head-spinning facts and figures...
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Chart position Ed Sheeran took this week on both the US and Canada official iTunes albums chart
24m
Sales make Gary Barlow and The Commonwealth
Band’s Sing EP the shortest No.1 album in chart history
1st US No.1 single for a band
since Nickleback’s How You Remind Me in 2001 for Fun. with We Are Young
£3.2bn
Added to the economy from the copyright industry,
according to new estimates by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
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June: the date when the Beatlemania museum in Hamburg will close after attracting just 150,000 visitors and suffering debts
17m
Viewers watched the finale of the Diamond Jubilee Concert on the BBC
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