15.11.13 MusicWeek 11
UK TICKETING CHARTS THE MOST SEARCHED-FOR ARTISTS OF THE PAST WEEK
TICKETMASTER UK POS EVENT
1 DRAKE
2 ONE DIRECTION 3 JAMES ARTHUR 4 DOLLY PARTON
5 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 6 TAYLOR SWIFT 7 ANDRE RIEU
8 MICHAEL BUBLÉ 9 PETER ANDRE 10 ALL TIME LOW
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11 RIZZLE KICKS 12 BASTILLE
13 CHASE & STATUS 14 ARCTIC MONKEYS 15 GARY BARLOW 16 BRUNO MARS 17 BILLY JOEL
18 THE OVERTONES 19 JOHN NEWMAN 20 PAUL CARRACK
ON THE RADAR MARTIN GARRIX
At just 17 years old, Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting artists in dance music. Gathering widespread attention, his breakthrough track Animals has, at the time of writing, over 61 million YouTube views and went straight to No.1 on Beatport making Garrix the youngest person to achieve the feat. It’s also sitting pretty at the top of the midweeks. Animals established itself as a
firm club and festival anthem over the second half of 2013, playing at some of the biggest dance events in world and entering the iTunes Top 10 in 19 countries, including
No.6 in the US. Speaking to Music Week, Garrix
described his shock regarding the track’s success: “It feels pretty weird. I never expected it - especially getting that track to reach No.1 and all the attention. I make tracks to play in clubs and play at festivals, not to get played on the radio or commercially pushed. It’s surprising in a good way and I’m really happy.” Garrix defines his sound as “big
room house and a little bit electro. It has a lot of energy because it’s made for the bigger events and festivals. I try to get a feeling with my music to get people in a certain
HE SAID / SHE SAID “
mood and give off a certain vibe.” He explained that, before sign-
ing to Spinnin’ Records, he start- ed off as a producer for other artists but then developed his own artist persona: “Once I start- ed making my own music we cre- ated the Martin Garrix image. Then we started building the fan- base and a profile - we started to work on a career.” Coming up, Garrix will be
embarking on his tour of Asia towards the end of November and releasing more music before heading out on a tour of the US. “I’m just touring now and we have five tracks ready. The following
TICKETWEB UK POS EVENT
1 ALL TIME LOW 2 RIZZLE KICKS 3 ANNIE MAC
4 JOHN NEWMAN 5 LONDON GRAMMAR
6 EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS 7 MATT CARDLE 8 THE 1975
9 THE EDITORS 10 STROMAE
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11 HAPPY MONDAYS 12 GARY NUMAN 13 TOM ODELL
14 OCEAN COLOUR SCENE 15 BRING ME THE HORIZON 16 ANTICS
17 FLUX PAVILION 18 STEEL PANTHER 19 KODALINE
20 FRIGHTENED RABBIT ESSENTIAL INFO
RELEASES 2012 Single: BFAM (with Julian Jordan) Single: Keygen 2013 Error 404 (with Jay Hardway) Just Some Loops (with TV Noise) Torrent (with Sidney Samson) Nov 10 Single: Animals
LABEL Positiva MANAGEMENT
info@musicallstarsmgmt.com
track to Animals is called Wizard,” he revealed. “I want to continue what I’m
doing and would also like to do an album, but right now I think it’s too early to do one. My main goal is to make music.”
LIVE November Fri 15 Club Image (FI, Lahti) Sat 16 Glamotion, Dortmund / Beatloverz, AHOY (NL, rotterdam) Fri 22 Empire, ST Martin Sat 23 Praterdome Wien (AT, Wenen) Fri 29 Avicii & Martin Garrix, Hong Kong
TAKE A BOW TEAM CHASE AND STATUS Label: EMI Records The difference between
those kids and me is that I grew up completely normal- ly and went to parties and had that experience. I am way less inclined to be like, ‘Look! I’m fucking mental!’
Recent No.1 artist, just-turned-17 Lorde has a pop at ex-Disney stars in an interview with GQ’s Q Blog, between having an online spat with Selena Gomez
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing
” THE LOWDOWN
Album: Brand New Machine Highest chart position: No.2
General manager: Duncan Scott A&R: Semtex Manager: JHO Oakley Legal: Sonia Diwan Agent: Obi Asika Marketing: Mike Rivalland
Digital: Tom Peacock National press: Lauren Hales
Regional press: Gordon Duncan
Online press: Katerina Marka
National radio: Eden Blackman Regional radio: Mark Rankin
TV: Helena McGeough & Rachel Dicks
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