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MARKET SHARES WEEK 49: TOP 75 SHARE BY CORPORATE GROUP


ARTIST SINGLES ■ Universal 35.86% ■ Sony 40.59% ■ Warner 21.87% ■ Others 1.68%


ARTIST ALBUMS ■ Universal 36.39% ■ Sony 38.17% ■ Warner 22.81% ■ Others 2.63%


ALL ALBUMS (Combined Artists & Compilation Albums) ■ Universal Music 27.81% ■ Sony Music 28.35% ■ Warner Music 16.52% ■ Sony /Universal 16.27% ■ Sony /Warner (25/75) 0.40% ■ Sony /Universal/Warner (65/25/10) 2.46% ■ Sony /Universal/Warner (42/42/16) 3.38% ■ Others (See breakdown to right) 4.36%


WEEK 49: TOP 75 SHARE BY RECORD COMPANY


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DEMON MUSIC GROUP 0.42% MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP 2.69% SONY MUSIC7/WARNER MUSIC 1 0.77% UNIVERSAL MUSIC1/WARNER MUSIC3 0.48%


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ARTIST SINGLES ■ RCA Label Group 19.83% ■ Virgin EMI 11.41% ■ Polydor 8.02% ■ Island 5.70% ■ Atlantic 11.93% ■ Columbia 11.75%


■ Others 31.34% Capitol 4.83% Decca 0.56% Island Virgin Emi 1.99% Ministry Of Sound 1.68% Parlophone 5.94% Rhino (Warners) 3.04% Syco Music 9.01% Umc 1.37% Umtv 1.96% Warner Bros 0.96%


ARTIST ALBUMS ■ Polydor 1.75% ■ Virgin EMI 7.20% ■ RCA Label Group 6.17% ■ Island 5.66% ■ Atlantic 9.69% ■ Columbia 16.35%


■ Others 42.96% BMG Rights 0.29% Capitol 6.04% Columbia Label Group1/polydor2 0.26% Decca 5.52% Demon Music 0.60% Infectious Music 0.25% Metal & Dust Recordings 0.27%


Parlophone 1.75% RCA1/Rhino (Warners) 0.57% Rhino (Warners) 8.25% Sony Music Cg 5.65% Syco Music 10.00% Union Square Music 0.40% Warner Bros 3.11%


YEAR TO DATE: TOTAL MARKET SHARES BY CORPORATE GROUP


SINGLES ■ Universal 38.4% ■ Sony 23.0% ■ Warner 17.4% ■ Others 14.8% Ministry - 0.9% Infectious Music - 0.4% XL Beggars - 1.5% BMG Rights - 0.7% Domino - 0.8% PIAS - 0.6%


ALL ALBUMS ■ Universal Music 34.4% ■ Sony Music 23.0% ■ Warner Music 17.5% ■ Minstry Of Sound 3.1% ■ Demon Music Group 1.5%


ARTIST ALBUMS ■ Universal 33.4% ■ Sony 22.2% ■ Warner 20.5% ■ Others 18.1% XL Beggars 1.4% Domino Recordings 1.0% Demon Music Group 0.8% Cooking Vinyl 0.4% BMG Rights 0.9% Ministry Of Sound 0.6%


■ XL Beggars 1.1% ■ Domino Recordings 0.7% ■ Union Square Music 0.7% ■ Delta 0.7% ■ BMG Rights 0.8% ■ Others 16.5%


YEAR TO DATE: TOTAL MARKET SHARES BY RECORD COMPANY


SINGLES ■ Virgin EMI 12.9% ■ RCA 11.9% ■ Polydor 9.7% ■ Island - 8.4% ■ Atlantic Records UK 7.0% ■ Warner Bros - 5.0% ■ Columbia Label Group - 6.2% ■ Parlophone - 3.8% ■ Capitol - 2.3% ■ UMC - 1.8% ■ Others - 31.0%


ARTIST ALBUMS ■ Virgin EMI- 9.8% ■ Polydor- 7.7% ■ RCA - 6.7% ■ Columbia Label Group - 7.2% ■ Island - 5.3% ■ Warner Bros- 4.1% ■ Atlantic Records UK - 6.1% ■ Sony Music CG - 5.0% ■ Rhino (Warner) - 4.9% ■ Parlophone- 4.0% ■ Others - 39.1%


hazam hopes to help diversify music listening and increase digital music sales and streaming after unveiling a


host of new features and updates. Announced this week, the music


tagging service has revamped its website, mobile phone app and will for the first time publish data on how many times its most popular tracks have been ‘Shazamed’. Subject to a music streaming service subscription, music fans can now stream music from services such as Spotify and Rdio from within the Shazam app. Previews of tracks will be played for those without a paid subscription. Meanwhile, a ‘Hall Of Fame’ on Shazam.com will honour artists whose tracks have been tagged 15 million (platinum), 10m (gold) and 5m (silver) times. So far, Avicii, Gotye, Robin Thicke and Passenger have achieved platinum status. Discussing the updates, Shazam’s chief


product officer, Daniel Danker (pictured), said: “In the past, success has been getting people into and out of Shazam as quickly as possible - the shorter the session length, the faster it means that we recognise


the song. Now we also want people to stick around. That’s all about giving people better music and enabling them to discover music they’ve never heard before. “I think we would all agree that more


music being enjoyed by more people and more new, and distinctive, music being discovered is really important. It’s one of the reasons we’ve focused on our recommendations engine, which is being driven by very early music discoveries that people are finding. We’re often the place people encounter a particular artist for the very first time. It’s up to us to keep that relationship going, to help people find more content that they’ll be interested in and more music that they’ll love.” Known for its ability to predict a future


hit, Shazam publishes charts “to over 3,000 recipients in the music industry every week,” said Danker. In August, it passed more than 100 million mobile monthly active users. It’s in the Top 20 on Apple’s App Store, and, according to Danker, sells 7% of all digital music in the world via integration with iTunes and Google Play. Moving beyond music, more partnerships with cinemas, radio stations, retailers and TV advertisements are on the cards.


BRITs Week 2015 confirmed


The BPI has today unveiled initial details of BRITs Week 2015, a three-year partnership with AEG, made possible with support from business membership organisation London First. BRITs Week will host a series of special


one off gigs and events in London in the days leading up to the BRIT Awards on Wednesday, February 25. A series of live music shows entitled


‘BRITs Week Presents…’, will include three shows individually curated by Warner Music UK, Sony Music UK and Universal Music UK and a fourth curated by independent record labels. One ticket price will apply for all shows


and a contribution from all tickets will go to War Child. Line up details will be announced soon.


On the night of the BRIT Awards,


The O2 will play host to performances from new talent, emerging artists and future award winners in and around the venue, in conjunction with The Mayor of London’s Gigs programme and the BRIT School. In addition, a ‘Creative London’ event will return which will incorporate key organisations and players from not only the UK music industry, but also the fashion and film industries. The week will also see the culmination


of the Next BRIT Thing – a national competition within the BPI-backed The Big Music Project that aims to discover the best in young music talent. The final will be staged at indigo at The


O2 on February 19.


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