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Source for all graphical/table data: Nielsen SoundScan
current titles were overtaken by those of catalogue releases. Current album sales dropped by 10.8% in the first six months of the year to 73.9 million units, but the back catalogue market covering albums at least 18 months old rose 5.4% to 76.6 million. Nearly 9 million more catalogue albums were sold up to the end of June this year compared to during the same period in 2010. Catalogue was also the main contributor to the
continuing growth in the digital albums market, which expanded overall by a further 13.8% at 2012’s mid-week point to 57.2 million units. This represented 38.0% of total album sales, compared to digital claiming a 32.3% share the year before. Within this sales of current digital albums grew by 10.6% to 28.0 million units, but this was dwarfed by the 17.0% increase for catalogue albums in the sector to a superior 29.2 million units. Two of the 10 biggest-selling albums overall
were catalogue titles: Whitney Houston’s Whitney: The Greatest Hits which, following the singer’s untimely death in February, was placed third for the half-year with 818,000 sales, and Adele’s first album 19 in 10th place with 539,000 takers. Led by Carrie Underwood’s third Billboard 200
chart-topper Blown Away, country was the fastest- growing albums genre, up 5.6% on the year to 19.4 million albums, while the only other genres to rise were metal (+3.2%), jazz (+2.6%) and rock (+0.2%). On singles a number of genres experienced double- digit increases, led by electronic/dance, which rose 65.2% to 46.6 million downloads and alternative, up 18.8% to 94.9 million. Reflecting musical shifts in the market, sales of R&B singles in the period dropped 30.4% to 38.9 million units, putting the genre behind dance for the first time.
US HALF-YEAR 2012 TOP 10 ALBUMS POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL / SALES
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ADELE 21 XL/Columbia 3,668,000 LIONEL RICHIE Tuskegee Mercury 912,000 ONE DIRECTION UP All Night Syco/Columbia 899,000
WHITNEY HOUSTON Whitney: The Greatest Hits Arista 818,000 VARIOUS ARTISTS Now 41 Universal/EMI/Sony 714,000 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Blown Away Arista Nashville 602,000 LUKE BRYAN Tailgates & Tanlines Capitol Nashville 575,000
NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Young Money/Cash Money 557,000 DRAKE Take Care Young Money/Cash Money 549,000
10 ADELE 19 XL/Columbia 539,000
US HALF-YEAR 2012 TOP 10 DIGITAL SONGS POS ARTIST/ TITLE / LABEL / SALES
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA Somebody That I Used To Know Samples ‘N’ Sounds/Fairfax 5,501,000 FUN FEAT. JANELLE MONAE We Are Young Fueled By Ramen 5,087,000 CARLY RAE JEPSEN Call Me Maybe Schoolboy/Interscope 4,064,000 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) RCA 3,324,000 NICKI MINAJ Starships Young Money/Cash Money 3,158,000 MAROON 5 FEAT. WIZ KHALIFA Payphone A&M/Octone 3,075,000 THE WANTED Glad You Came Mercury 2,892,000
ONE DIRECTION What Makes You Beautiful Syco/Columbia 2,885,000 FLO RIDA FEAT. SIA Wild Ones Poe Boy/Atlantic 2,790,000
10 JUSTIN BIEBER Boyfriend Schoolboy/Raymond Braun 2,599,000
US HALF-YEAR 2012 RECORDED MUSIC SALES VS LAST WEEK SINGLES PHYSICAL ALBS. DIGITAL ALBS.
HY 2012 HY 2011
698.0m 93.3m 660.8m 105.2m % CHANGE +5.6% –11.3%
57.2m 50.3m
+13.8%
TOTAL ALBS. 150.5m 155.5m
–3.2%
MARKET SHARE FOCUS SONY’S THREE OUT OF FOUR TOPS ALBUMS TALLY US HALF-YEAR 2012 MARKET SHARES
SONY WAS THE US’s top performing albums major in the first half of 2012 after providing three of the four biggest-selling titles. Led by the XL/Columbia Adele
album 21 as the period’s top seller, it eased ahead of Universal with a 30.4% share, according to Nielsen SoundScan, virtually matching what it had at 2011’s midway point when it also led the market. Syco/Columbia act One
Direction’s Up All Night and the Arista-issued retrospective Whitney: The Greatest Hits were also significant contributors to its tally as the half-year’s third and fourth top sellers, while it also shared the bounty with Universal and EMI of fifth- placed Now 41 and had Arista Nashville’s Carrie Underwood (right) placed sixth with Blown Away and the first Adele album 19 in ninth position. Universal, which last year ultimately
overtook Sony to finish narrowly as the market’s top player for 2011 with a 29.9% share, controlled 29.0% of US albums sales at 2012’s midway point. The Mercury Nashville-issued Tuskegee by Lionel Richie was its top seller as it took runners-up spot in the six-monthly chart, while its other top performers included Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, Drake’s Take Care and
ALBUMS SINGLES
RIGHT UK successes: just four of numerous Brit hits included Adele, Florence + The Machine, Seal and The Wanted
ADELE PREDICTABLY HEADED three of the US’s main mid-year charts for 2012, but there were plenty of other British successes. Syco/Columbia act One Direction and Capitol’s
Coldplay both won places alongside Adele on Billboard/Nielsen SoundScan’s six-monthly Top 20 albums chart with the boy band’s Up All Night in third spot and Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto 18th after selling another 415,000 copies. This took its cumulative US total to around 1.4 million units. The albums were among 10 by UK acts to have
made the Billboard 200’s weekly Top 10 between January and June with the countdown also including Florence + The Machine, Paul McCartney, Seal, Ed Sheeran, Snow Patrol and The Wanted. The British presence is even greater on the half-year
later, giving Universal and EMI combined 39.1% of the US albums market, some 8.7 percentage points more than Sony. EMI’s top sellers included Capitol Nashville act Luke Bryan’s Tailgates & Tanlines, which finished seventh on the half-year chart with 574,000 sales. Ahead of EMI, Warner’s share
SONY 30.4% (30.4%) UNIVERSAL 29.0% (28.5%) WARNER 18.3% (19.5%) EMI 10.1% (9.1%) OTHERS 12.3% (12.6%)
Blown away: Carrie Underwood scored highly for Sony label Arista Nashville
UNIVERSAL 32.7% (32.6%) SONY 25.7% (27.0%) WARNER 18.7% (17.8%) EMI 7.8% (8.3%) OTHERS 15.1% (14.3%)
dropped year-on-year from 19.5% to 18.3%, reflected by it having none of the half year’s 10 top sellers, its highest entry Nonesuch act The Black Keys’ El Camino in 16th position. The independents’ official market share was 12.3%, down from
12.6% a year ago, although this does not include albums on indie labels which have major distribution. Universal comfortably led the one-
Gotye’s Making Mirrors, all of which are released through Universal Republic. Universal’s takeover target EMI’s
albums market share rose from 9.1% at 2011’s half-way stage to 10.1% a year
track singles market with a 32.7% share, 6.9 percentage points ahead of Sony (down from 27.0% to 25.7%), after providing six of the half-year’s 10 top sellers led by Gotye featuring Kimbra’s Somebody That I Used To Know, which shifted an unrivalled 5.5 million copies. Warner’s share grew from 17.8% to 18.7% with Fueled By Ramen act Fun’s We Are Young featuring Janelle Monae the period’s second top seller, while EMI’s share dropped from 8.3% to 7.8% and the rest of the market rose from 14.3% to 15.1%.
digital albums chart, taking in three of the top four places with Adele’s XL/Columbia album 21 in first place with 876,000 download sales, One Direction’s debut second after shifting 367,000 digital copies and Mylo Xyloto fourth with 268,000 non-physical buyers. Top vinyl sellers for the period included three UK
releases with Apple/Capitol’s Abbey Road by The Beatles third after shifting 15,700 copies on 12-inch, 21 in fifth place (10,300 vinyl sales) and Gentlemen Of The Road/Glassnote’s Mumford & Sons seventh with Sigh No More (9,600 vinyl sales).
THE BRITISH PRESENCE HOW UK ACTS FARED
Three singles by UK acts sold more than 2 million
units in the US during the first six months of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan, headed by the Mercury-issued Glad You Came by The Wanted with 2.9 million sales. This made it the period’s seventh top one- track download, placing it just ahead of One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful, which finished eighth around 7,000 fewer sales. Adele’s Set Fire To The Rain was the 11th top track
of the half-year with 2.5 million copies sold, although its cumulative US total is around 4 million having been released last year. It was also the most-spun track on US radio up to end of June, according to Nielsen BDS data with Glad You Came placed sixth. Seven other tracks by UK acts have sold more than
1 million downloads in the US this year: Adele’s Rolling In The Deep, Someone Like You and Rumour Has It, Lava/Universal Republic’s Domino by Jessie J, Capitol act Coldplay’s Paradise, the Ultra-issued Feel So Close by Calvin Harris and Cherrytree/Interscope act Ellie Goulding’s Lights, which sold another 160,000 units last week as it climbed 6-5 on the Hot 100.
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