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SHAZAM STATS Q3 2013 Q3 2013
TOTAL WORLD TAGS TOTAL UK TAGS
Q3 2012
CHANGE
1,749,845,242 1,061,120,243 +64.9% 79,302,173
48,298,316 +64.2%
SHAZAM MOST-TAGGED TRACKS IN UK Q3 2013 POS ARTIST TITLE LABEL
1 AVICII Wake Me Up Positiva/PRMD
SALES POS RADIO POS 1
2 ROBIN THICKE FEAT. TI & PHARRELL WILLIAMS Blurred Lines Interscope 3 KLANGARUSSELL FEAT. WILL HEARD Sonnentanz (Sun Don’t Shine) Island 15 4 JOHN NEWMAN Love Me Again Island
2
5 NAUGHTY BOY FEAT. SAM SMITH La La La Virgin 6 PASSENGER Let Her Go Nettwerk 7 FUSE ODG Antenna 3 Beat/AATW
8 ICONA POP FEAT. CHARLI XCX I Love It Atlantic
9 CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. AYAH MARAR Thinking About You Columbia 10 LANA DEL REY VS CEDRIC GRVAIS Summertime Sadness Polydor 11 SEBASTIAN INGROSSO & TOMMY TRASH FEAT. JOHN... Reload Virgin 12 ONEREPUBLIC Counting Stars Interscope 13 JASON DERULO The Other Side Warner Bros 14 ELLIE GOULDING Burn Polydor
15 STORM QUEEN Look Right Through Ministry of Sound 16 JAY Z FEAT.JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Holy Grail Roc Nation
by its quarter-end charts with Avicii also ranked as the top artist overall in all the main music markets where Wake Me Up individually led, while in the US he was sixth behind Robin Thicke, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Jay Z, Lorde and Drake. Five of Shazam’s six leading artists in the States
during the quarter were Universal acts – as was Imagine Dragons at No.7 and the pairing of Lana Del Rey and Cedric Gervais at No.10 – reflecting a period of incredible domination by the major in the one-track market. In one week in September Universal occupied the entire Top 10 of the weekly Hot 100, the first time a corporate record group had claimed such a monopoly. This control was further mirrored by its huge presence in Shazam’s US chart covering the most-tagged tracks of the quarter with Blurred Lines at No.1, Lorde’s Royals at 2, Wake Me Up at 3, Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake’s Holy Grail at 5, Lana Del Rey Vs Cedric Gervais’ Summertime Sadness at 7, Capital Cities’ Safe And Sound at 8, Imagine Dragons’ Radioactive at 9 and Zedd’s Clarity at 10. The only non-Universal tracks to get a look in at the top table were the independently-issued Same Love by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert at 4 and Sony act Daft Punk’s Get Lucky with Pharrell Williams at 6.
Universal’s Shazam domination in the UK
during the quarter was similarly impressive having been behind seven of the ten most tagged tracks overall, including supplying the entire Top 5 led by Wake Me Up and Blurred Lines with Klangrussell’s Sonnentanz (Sun Don’t Shine) featuring Will Heard at 3, John Newman’s Love Me Again at 4 and Naughty Boy’s La La La with Sam Smith at 5. Universal was further represented in the Top 10 by Fuse ODG’s Antenna at 7 and Summertime Sadness at 10, while 51 of the quarter’s 100 most- tagged tracks in the UK came from the major, compared to 20 from Sony, 14 from Warner and 15 from the independent sector. Also making the Top 10 was Nettwerk act
Passenger’s Let Her Go, which had sat at No 3 in Q2 and was in sixth place three months later, the Warner-handled I Love It by Icona Pop featuring
Charli XCX at 8 and the Sony-issued Thinking About You by Calvin Harris featuring Ayah Marar at No.9. Given the influence Shazam activity has on the
download market with something like 8-10% of tagged tracks going on to become purchases, it is probably not too surprising there were some notable similarities between the service’s Q3 chart and the one from the Official Charts Company ranking tracks by download sales. The top two tracks were identical with Wake Me Up having been tagged an unrivalled 706,000 times in the UK in the given period when it sold an unmatched 980,000 downloads, while Blurred Lines sat at No.2 on each countdown. John Newman’s Love Me Again almost made
it an identical top three, ranking at No.3 on sales, but just beaten to bronze position by Klangrussell’s Sonnnentanz on Shazam’s quarter- end listings. Naughty Boy’s La La La, Icona Pop’s I Love It and Lana Del Rey’s Summertime Sadness were also in both the Q3 Shazam and sales Top 10s, while 75 tracks registered in both markets’ quarterly Top 100s. However, as usual there were a variety of tracks
that created far more heat on Shazam than at retail, some simply because they had not been commercially made available in the quarter, while others failed to deliver in the sales chart the kind of popularity their high number of tags might have suggested. Among those in the first category was Storm
Queen’s Look Right Through, which was Shazam’s 15th most-tagged track of Q3 and has been A-listed by Radio 1, but was not being released by Ministry of Sound until November 3 when it went on to debut at No.1. Lower down, Dutch DJ and music producer Martin Garrix’s Animals was Shazam’s 57th top track of the quarter, having been a sizable sales hit on the continent. Although it only managed to make it to No.140 on the weekly sales chart in July when put out by independent label Spinnin’, it is now subject to a re-issue by Virgin and is set to debut at No.1 this weekend.
3 9
11 34 7
22 8
23 17 19 5 -
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17 ARMIN VAN BUUREN FEAT.
TREVOR...This Is What It Feels Like Positiva/Virgin 59 18 RAY FOXX FEAT. RACHEL
K...Boom Boom (Heartbeat) Island/Strictly Rhythm 19 DAFT PUNK FEAT. PHARRELL WILLIAMS Get Lucky Columbia 20 MILEY CYRUS We Can’t Stop RCA
55 16 6
2 1
45 4 5
18 32 6
26 28 24 41 31 7 -
27 19 59 3
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The above shows Shazam’s 20 most-tagged tracks in the UK for Q3 2013 and where they ranked in the quarter-end Top 100 sales and radio airplay charts sources: Shazam, Official Charts Company (sales), Radiomonitor (airplay)
ABOVE LEFT Indie tag: The independently- issued Same Love by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis was one of only two non-Universal track in Shazam’s Top 10 most- tagged tracks of Q3 in the US
SHAZAM MOST-TAGGED TRACKS WORLDWIDE Q3 2013 POS ARTIST TITLE CORPORATE GROUP
1 AVICCI Wake Me Up Universal 2 ROBIN THICKE FEAT TI & PHARRELL... Blurred Lines Universal 3 NAUGHTY BOY FEAT. SAM SMITH La La La Universal 4 DAFT PUNK FEAT. PHARRELL WILLIAMS Get Lucky Sony 5 CAPITAL CITIES Safe And Sound Universal 6 LORDE Royals Universal 7 JAY Z FEAT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Holy Grail Universal 8 LANA DEL REY FEAT. CEDRIC... Summertime Sadness Universal 9 JOHN NEWMAN Love Me Again Universal 10 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS.... Can’t Hold Us Macklemore 11 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS... Same Love Macklemore 12 CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. ELLIE GOULDING I Need Your Love Sony 13 PASSENGER Let Her Go various labels 14 MARTIN GARRIX Animals various labels 15 MILEY CYRUS We Can’t Stop Sony 16 PINK FEAT. NATE RUESS Just Give Me A Reason Sony 17 ARMIN VAN
BUUREN...This Is What It Feels Like various labels 18 KATY PERRY Roar Universal 19 DRAKE FEAT. MAJID JORDAN Hold On, We’re Going HomeUniversal 20 ICONA POP FEAT. CHARLI XCX I Love It Warner
The above shows Shazam’s 20 most-tagged tracks globally for Q3 2013 source: Shazam
At.No 77 in Shazam’s Q3 chart, Bonfire Heart
has now turned into Warner act James Blunt’s first Top 10 UK sales hit in six years, but was not commercially available by the time the quarter ended. It has since peaked at No.4 on the weekly sales countdown, leading to a No.2 chart debut for its parent album Moon Landing. French electronic music act M83 appear twice in
Shazam’s Q3 Top 100 without either track having made much impact at iTunes or other retail services during the quarter. The 2011 cut Midnight City,
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