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issue 522 / 11 April 2013
Top 5 must-read
articles
record of the week
UK digital single sales hit
} one billion. (Official Charts)
Reverse Skydiving
Hot Creations / FFRR / Warners
Hot Natured feat. Anabel Englund
I
FPI reports 2012 growth
} in 22 markets, 57% / 35%
physical to digital share.
(RotD)
Sony Radio Academy
} Awards nominees
announced. (RotD)
Universal wins distribution
} rights to Roc Nation label.
(FT)
May 6
Anyone doubting that Hot Natured are one of the most exciting prospects in electronic
music right now would do well to check out one of their two headline shows at Brixton
Academy this weekend, the first dance act since Leftfield to make their live debut
there. This is just the beginning of a phenomenal live plot for acclaimed producers
and DJ’s Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Ali Love and Luca C; the group will headline the
Sonic supertent at Glastonbury’s Silver Haze arena, with further festival appearances
at Parklife, Sonar, T in the Park and Bestival, and somewhere in there they find time
to make their US debut at New York’s 3000-capacity Terminal 5. Featuring vocals
from Anabel Englund, this addictive third single Reverse Skydiving is the band’s first
release since signing to Pete Tong’s FFRR label, with solid radio support so far from
Kiss, Ministry and Radio 1 (15 plays to date including Zane Lowe, Pete Tong and Rob
Da Bank, as well as a first daytime play last week from Annie Mac). This is an act with
the pedigree and personality to be leading lights in EDM and beyond. Video.
Hilco buys 141 HMV
} outlets. plans to refocus on
music and visual. (Billboard)
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P2 Comment
P3 LoveLive interview
P3 LoveLive
P8 Denai Moore
P9 Ball Park Music
worldwide sales
marketing and
distribution
P4 MUSEXPO interview
P6 Gigs this week
P7 Compass
P14 Word on
Plus all the regulars
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comment
The recent deal reached between Universal Music Publishing, YouTube
and French collection society SACEM has perhaps been underreported,
considering its potentially large impact on the wider music business
This new deal gives YouTube clearance to
use SACEM’s repertoire, as well as UMP’s
Anglo-American repertoire, in 127 countries
in Europe, Asia, Africa and beyond. Whilst
this sounds simple enough on the surface,
trying to reach an understanding of exactly
what this means is actually pretty complex.
In some cases, where writers/composers
signed to Universal have assigned all their
digital publishing rights to UMP, or they are
represented by SACEM, this deal means that
they are now licensed for YouTube in 127
countries. In other cases however, where
composers have assigned rights not just
to Universal but are also represented by a
collecting society not included into the deal,
this means that YouTube will still also have
to clear rights with that local society. It’s not
therefore a straight 127 territory deal which
allows YouTube to use all UMP songs.
In recent years, as the major publishers
in particular have started forming their own
international rights bodies, it has as a result
become necessary for services to negotiate
not just with PRS, SACEM or GEMA for
Those who don’t hold the
same market power are at
risk of becoming second
class citizens with a
fatally weakened
collective voice
example, but additionally with these new
societies. This is a nightmare for smaller
service operators, who can find themselves
bogged down in licensing. For a heavily
resourced company like Google/YouTube
however, the complex licensing framework is
more manageable.
Where Google/YouTube has had real
difficulty with music licensing is in reaching
agreement from some of those traditional
publisher/writer societies such as GEMA,
leading to a situation where YouTube
currently remains unlicensed for music in key
territories like Germany. With YouTube being
describable as the world’s biggest music
service, such big gaps in its footprint are a
big deal for Google, and indeed artist, music
companies and for users in those countries
who can’t access music on YouTube.
This new licensing deal certainly helps
Google. Gone is the situation where GEMA,
for example, can utterly control digital
licensing in Germany. Via new international
deals, YouTube is now potentially able to
secure access to music which was previously
‘owned’ outright by collecting societies,
potentially solving a lot of its problems with
licensing.
Some would argue that this new
licensing framework is a good thing. Writers
who’ve been frustrated by the monopoly of
collecting societies in a given territory can
now seek alternative routes to market. On a
more fundamental level however, this new
deal continues what we feel is a worrying
trend about where the balance of power in
music rights licensing is shifting. The role
of collecting societies as rights holders and
deal negotiators is on the wane and being
further undermined with each new deal.
The large players in both publishing and
recorded music are increasingly seeking to
negotiate all their digital deals, whilst using
collecting societies more as administrative
organisations for gathering and paying out
money.
Whilst many are critical of collecting
societies, one big advantage of the
traditional system is that it offered is a level
playing field for all where societies sought to
protect the rates paid by services to all their
members. The actual rates that, for example,
PRS for Music has agreed with YouTube,
may not be publicly listed, but all PRS
members at least knew that they were all
treated equally. Now that the big players in
music publishing are striking their own deals,
the level playing field is gone. Collecting
societies are at the same time losing their
negotiating muscle and the position of their
smaller members are bound to suffer as a
result. It seems reasonable to see a time
in the not so distant future where collecting
societies are at best fringe players in the
digital rights game. Can this be a positive
thing?
These moves by the big publishers
are designed to protect and improve their
own interests. Those who don’t hold the
same market power are at risk of becoming
second class citizens with a fatally weakened
collective voice. Arguably this is exactly
the kind of market shaping by big players
that regulators should have foreseen
and protected against when considering
publishing market consolidation in recent
years.
It’s also worth considering the role and
interests of Google in all this. It hates players
like GEMA who hold such market-controlling
power. Google has shown that it’s not willing
to accept the demands being made by some
societies, so instead it is seeking other ways
to get those rights, especially via direct
deals. Google’s strategy is to sign direct
deals with rights holders, with the agreed
rates kept secret by NDAs. This leads to a
situation where the value offered by Google
to different parties can vary enormously, with
no one really being sure what any one else
is getting.
What’s to be done? Smaller music
publishers desperately need to find a new
collective voice to represent and protect
the value of their rights. Whilst this makes
sense in general, Google has shown its hand
already - it doesn’t like collective licensing
and might refuse to deal with such a body.
Nevertheless, the need for such a body
seems clear.
Should regulators also step in? There
does seem to be evidence of a market
being distorted by its biggest players to the
detriment of fair competition. One radical
proposal we heard recently was to seek to
establish published international rates for
music rights - such as those that exist for
gold or oil. These would be payable by any
service, providing a level playing field for
both services and rights holders. Such a
radical solution seems almost unimaginable.
But it certainly sounds preferable to the
current trend, where transparency and fair
value for all are fast disappearing.
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LoveLive continues its success
Last August we caught up with Richard Cohen and Toby L from LoveLive to discuss
the company’s then-new live streaming licence with YouTube. This week has seen
The Times and the Evening Standard report a £10million funding round from the
successful team in order to expand the venture. Founder and CEO Richard Cohen talks
us through the past six months at LoveLive.
It seems like it’s been a
huge six months for you
since we last spoke...
It really has. It’s been
incredibly dynamic and
very fast paced, things
can changes very quickly.
However, we’re fully
aware that it takes a great
deal longer to establish a
reputation than it does to
destroy one so ultimately
we’re as good as the last
work we’ve done. All of the
live streams have worked
perfectly well but we have
to make sure we keep
innovating and keep solving
problems for labels, artists,
managers and all the others
that we serve.
When we last spoke you
had just started your live
streaming arm, how’s that
worked?
It’s been great down
to a number of things:
our professionalism,
our persistence and our
amazing team. I think due
to the nature of our sister
companies, RockFeedBack
and Transgressive
Records Management and
Publishing, we’re seen as
very empathetic by all the
constituents in the value
chain. All of our team know
what it’s like to deal with
a publisher or a manager
or such because of our
Transgressive work, therefore
our team are incredibly in
tune with everyone we work
with. Rather than having
to sell to our clients we’ve
Because music is such a passion
point the live element works
incredibly well with the social
aspect, it’s very tribal
simply made it easy for them
to buy. It’s a subtle shift but a
very significant one.
You were one of very few
with the licence – is that
still the case?
It is yes, there are all together
very few live stream licenses
on YouTube. Interestingly,
when we streamed
Madonna it was a initially
commissioned on behalf of
the label and we ultimately
streamed to our own channel
because we had the live
streaming licence. The same
thing happened with River
Island for Rihanna, which
came to our channel because
we had the licence. We can
make the process very simple
and straight forward .
We’ve done a fantastic
job too, the fact we filmed
Madonna allowed us to film
Rihanna and off the back of
that Muse wanted us because
we’re the guys who have
done Madonna and Rihanna
– it become s a very positive
and virtuous circle.
What have been the
channel’s biggest
successes so far?
I think there have been
many and they’re all varied.
Rihanna’s been an absolutely
brilliant project because it
was not only a live stream
of the show in London but
in addition to that we were
also commissioned directly
by Roc Nation to make a
documentary film of the 777
tour. The film is going to
premiere on Fox primetime
on May 6 and there’s a
longform TV programme
which will be announced as
well. That’s been tremendous.
We are immensely proud of
the technology, the innovation
and the pay-per-views that
we’ve done and implemented.
We like innovating and we
like solving problems for
clients and I think we’ve been
successful in doing what we
do.
Have you found that
people are watching the
live streams as they are
happening or in their own
time?
It’s both. What we tend to
see is a real peak, up to to
hundreds of thousands of
concurrent viewers on the
live event itself, what then
works well is a 24 hour loop
of the live broadcast. When
something is broadcast at
9pm in the UK we can loop
the stream and have it play
again for another time zone
around the world, allowing
us to still deliver that live
experience across the globe.
We’ll see around a million
people watch the live stream
and then over a period of time
afterwards with reruns and
directors cuts we’ll continue
to build that. It’s great to have
the live event but there is also
a lot of demand afterwards
as well.
There’s definitely the
perceived premium value
associated with the viewing of
a live events. Also, because
music is such a passion
point the live element works
incredibly well with the social
aspect, it’s very tribal. There’s
definitely something in
knowing that your friends are
watching at the same time.
We integrate a Twitter feed or
a Facebook chat option within
our player to welcome that
kind of interaction between
people.
The Times piece says you
want to raise £10 million
from venture capital funds
to expand your streaming
arm, how are you planning
to spend the money?
There’s number of initiatives:
technology, infrastructure,
the platform, rights and
international expansion. It’s
about amplifying our own
platform, that really revolves
around direct-to-consumer
plans that we have; building
the technology platform and
infrastructure; acquiring
rights more aggressively and
ramping up our presence in
North America. Some money
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LoveLive (cont)
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is also potentially for some
more acquisitions and some
more framework agreements.
The money is for everything
we are doing across the
company and not specific to
the live streaming arm, that’s
only one part of what we do.
We’ve had a number of
approaches for the money
and we’ve got a incredible
board and body of investors
already working with us so
we’d like them to run the race
for us.
People keep writing
venture capital but we’re now
at a stage where I would
suggest we’re more of a
private equity proposition
than a venture capital. The
money could come from any
number of places but venture
capital tends to suggest
we’re at a very early stage
and present a risk where as
private equity is very much
about funding established
and establishing businesses
outside of the public market.
We don’t wish to announce
by any means that we’ve
‘arrived’, we’re still very much
on a journey.
You previously mentioned
that you were working on
“two new channels behind
the scenes” have you
moved any further with
them?
The RockFeedBack channel
launched with the live stream
of Nick Cave’s album launch
from LA, that’s been fantastic.
There are now four more
channels in development and
we’re hoping to announce the
next one very soon.
We like innovating and we like
solving problems for clients
and I think we’ve successful
in doing what we do
Will you be tying your live
channel in with any more of
you brand work?
Absolutely. We’re continuing
to do a live streaming series
with HP at the moment - with
which we did Ellie Goulding
recently - and there are
another couple coming up.
We really want to make
sure there’s more to the live
stream than just the live
stream so it really is about
engaging the community. We
want to work with brands and
make sure we understand
their objective . With each
live stream there’s a multiweek if not multi-month
campaign where you’ll start
feeding content ahead of the
live show and make it into
something really special.
We’ll certainly be doing more
of it in the future.
@jamesjammcmahon
(Kerrang!)
Havent seen any rock bands
speaking about Thatcher
today aside from the rubbish
ones you see at free festivals.
Is this what it has come to?
@rhodri (Rhodri Marsden,
Independent)
Half expecting the launch of
a weekly mag with a step-bystep guide to building your
own scale model of Thatcher,
first issue only £1.99
@thestaves
That awkward moment when
you realise the song you’ve
been writing all day is a
complete rip off of the Animal
Hospital theme tune. #tune
@poptartsuk
Why do Spotify keep making
updates without actually
improving anything?
@kayaburgess (Times)
How long is an episode of
Britain’s Got Talent? I’m about
to sit through one and am
worried I haven’t sorted my
last will and testament out.
@csi_popmusic (Fraser
McAlpine)
Something’s up: I think wahwah pedals may be making
a comeback. #hookworms
#kurtvile
@joemuggs (Arts Desk)
I am truly gutted that Andrew
Harrison will be leaving
@qmagazine - he is the best
in the business, and has done
WONDERS there. @nndroid
@sterlewine (All Music)
Andrew Harrison did an
terrific job revamping Q
Magazine and now he’s
leaving. Not good.
@Dorianlynskey (Guardian)
Gutted to see him go. A great
editor to write for. II Q editor
Andrew Harrison steps down
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MUSEXPO
Mamie Coleman of the Fox
Broadcasting Company talks
to Mark Muggeridge about
opportunities in sync licensing ahead
of the Global Sync & Consumer Brands
Summit at MUSEXPO 2013
When LA-based music
supervisor PJ Bloom visited
London recently he set the
cat amongst the pigeons by
suggesting at one point that
rights-holders should brace
themselves for the day when
sync fees might be reduced
to nothing or that labels and
publishers might even pay to
place music in productions.
Whilst Bloom was clear that
he personally continues to
fight to keep rates for sync
licensing as high as possible,
fees for sync is not the cash
cow that the music business
once hoped it would be in the
face of falling revenue from
traditional sources.
Ahead of attending the
Global Sync & Consumer
Brands Summit at MUSEXPO
we spoke with Mamie
Coleman, Vice President,
Music and Production
at the Fox Broadcasting
Company for a view of the
alternative opportunities in
sync. With experience in
both television and music,
Mamie Coleman plays an
integral role in producing
and developing innovative
programme launches,
marketing strategies and
image campaigns for
broadcast television’s
number one network by
creating the unique ‘sound’
of FOX marketing. She was
upbeat about the future of
sync licensing telling us that
she did not necessary think
that fees for sync would go
much lower than they are
now. “At Fox Broadcasting
we love music and know
that audiences love hearing
music in the shows, so we
will always pay for tracks in
order to get the best material
for the shows we are working
with.” She did however
make clear that artists need
to understand that music
libraries have really stepped
up their game over recent
years and that it was too easy
now for a music supervisor
under budget constraints to
go to a library and find really
great music. “You need to
be ready to negotiate with
the music supervisors and
understand that as well as
finding the right sync for the
show or promo that they are
working on they are often
Coleman’s upbeat about the future of
sync licensing telling us that she did
not necessary think that fees for sync
would go much lower than they are now
mindful of trying to create an
opportunity for you.”
Central to Coleman’s
role at FOX is the creation
of On Air Promo’s and we
discussed the fact that many
labels and publishers have
a fixation with the end of
season key sync. Coleman
told us that on air promo is a
great alternative opportunity
for new artists in particular,
because a promo gets
played perhaps a couple of
hundred times in the run up
to a season opening. “The
season opening can be more
important than the end of
the run because viewers
are keen to see what’s
happening in new episodes of
a show that they love. Being
associated with that kind of
hype is invaluable and what
new artist wouldn’t want the
hook of their track played
a few hundred times to an
audience across the many
platforms that TV networks
use in their promo activities.”
Coleman’s promo campaigns
for Fox Broadcasting are
notable for the success they
have had winning the network
new audiences. They include
season launch elements, for
in-theater trailers, internet
trailers and promotional
compilation soundtracks that
use fresh, hip new music.
She helped launch the new
hit comedy TV series, Mindy
with Matt and Kim’s Let’s Go
and Karmin’s Brokenhearted,
as well as finding numerous
songs for FOX’s powerhouse
series, Glee, American Idol
and X Factor.
Coleman said that she
attends a huge number of
music conferences hunting
for new talent and music
and that they represent a
golden opportunity for both
artists and sync managers.
She said that she loves the
Global Sync & Consumer
Brands Summit at MUSEXPO
because the round table
sessions give all involved a
chance to learn from each
other and network. She
said that personally she is
open to approaches via the
various online platforms that
make up the music business
networking environment
today but that having made
that first contact at a music
event such as MUSEXPO is
a great way to ensure you are
distinguished from the crowd.
Mamie Coleman will
be one of the many sync
music supervisors attending
MUSEXPO in LA in May.
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gigs
covers
features
Recommended
London gigs
The covers of the current music
magazines
Artist features this week
Friday
Actress, Fabric EC1
A look at Margaret Thatcher’s
impact on British music. (ITV)
Monday
Nadine Shah,
Old Blue Last EC2
Coastal Cities, Birhdays N16
Thatcher: The Sound and the
Fury. (Arts Desk)
Tuesday
White Heat present:
Dan Bodan,
Madam Jo Jo’s W1F
Wednesday
Gold Dust present: MMX +
Carly Connor + Femme +
DEWL,
Hoxton bar & Kitchen N1
Charli XCX + YADi,
Old Blue Last EC2
Luls + Must +
Paint the Dark, Barfly NW1
Portico Quartet, Koko N1
Thursday
Eat your own Ears present:
East India Youth, Sebright
Arms E2
Eat your own Ears present:
Clean Bandit,
Electrowerkz EC1
New Desert Blues,
Barfly NW1
Margaret Thatcher: the villain
of political pop. (Guardian
blog, Dorian Lynskey)
Without actually trying to be,
Margaret Thatcher was the
most musically inspirational
prime minister in British
history. (Times) Her divisive
politics shaped the charts of
1980s Britain.
Kate Tempest, the youngest
person under 40 to win the
Ted Hughes award, tells Sam
Wolfson how rapping led her
to write music. (Guardan G2)
Pacha has ruled the dance
club scene on the Spanish
island of Ibiza since the
1970s, but now star DJ’s are
defecting to higher pay in Las
Vegas. (NY Times)
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and news to:
Former dubstep DJ James
Blake wowed critics and
baffled dance fans with his
tender 2011 debut. Now, the
refreshingly frank Londoner
tells Tom Lamont about
the pressures of the music
industry and how falling in
love shaped his new album.
(Observer)
The hip-hop hustler with a
sporting empire on his mind
(FT Weekend - Ludovic
Hunter-Tilney) Behind the
feints and boasts lies Jay-Z’s
great capitalist story. Simon Price on pop: Would
the real Biffy Clyro please
stand up and rock out?
(Saturday Independent)
‘We mix ourselves up with
music, it moulds itself to us’.
Pop’s uncanny ability to help
us define and understand our
lives makes it more powerful
than film or books. (Observer
- Miranda Sawyer)
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compass
The hottest unsigned acts of the moment from RotD music consultants Chris Price and Joe Taylor
Moko
News
Kings of the City
Brooklyn electro trio Little
£
Daylight, whose Overdose was
a Zane Lowe Next Hype last
month, are understood to have
signed a huge deal with Capitol
in the US.
Effective immediately, the label
£
arm of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation
entertainment company has
entered into a worldwide
partnership with UMG, where
it will operate as a standalone
company. (Music Week)
Moko
Sparse, brooding and
mysterious, Moko’s music
is hard to categorise, and
she wisely declines to do so
on her Facebook or Tumblr.
Spanning soul, 2-step, drum
& bass (and occasionally
reminiscent of Blue Linesera Massive Attack), it’s
gratifyingly hard to pin down.
Few photographs of Moko
exist, and even her videos
tantalisingly cast her in
shadow or not at all, placing
her stunning vocal front and
centre. Label interest is high
– her recent Birthdays show
attracted senior names from
across the industry, and she’s
believed to be under offer –
so expect to see a good turn
out at her forthcoming dates
in London and Brighton.
Contact:
mokomayhem@gmail.com
Primary Wave act Nightbus
£
have signed to S-Curve.
Touch Tones have announced
£
the signing of songwriting and
production duo Artery Music
(currently working with Laura
Welsh and Jetta), as well
as jazz composer Shabaka
Hutchings. Full details here.
Kings of the City
London-based rap/rock
collective Kings of the City
describe themselves as Wu
Tang meets The Beatles.
Wretch 32 and Jake Bugg
might be closer to the mark,
but they’ve already won
fans in Zane Lowe and
Charlie Sloth, which speaks
volumes about where they
sit musically. New track
‘Please Tell Me’, released
on May 13 and launched at
the Jazz café on May 10,
is deservedly picking up a
good deal of interest from
both majors and indies.
Contact:
myst@soempire.com
Ones to watch
Moko, Kings of the City, Denai Moore, Emma Stevens, Aquilo, Ball
Park Music, Tropics,
As Elephants Are, SOAK, Josef Salvat, Luke
Sital-Singh, London Grammar, Merchandise, Torres, Superfood,
Tres.B, Kwabs, Sid Batham, Purple Ferdinand, Ruen Brothers, Ady
Suleiman, Sivu, Dan Croll, Jetta
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compass (cont)
Denai Moore
Emma Stevens
Originally from Jamaica, 19
year-old Denai Moore is a
talented writer and artist from
Stratford who charmingly
describes her fusion of
folk and soul as ‘foul’. It’s
anything but – check out
her Soundcloud or YouTube
for conclusive proof. Having
already worked with Plan
B (with more big names
still to be announced), her
forthcoming debut EP is
licensed to Because, with
longer term recording and
publishing still available.
Don’t miss the boat on this
very special artist.
Contact:
dan@hardlivings.co.uk
Currently enjoying her third
week on the B-list at Radio 2,
following a session for Terry
Wogan in March, is unsigned
singer-songwriter Emma
Stevens, who continues
to work as a receptionist
at a cardio-vascular clinic
in Guildford and is entirely
self-funded to date. No
stranger to the stage, having
performed as a session
musician around the world,
Stevens also has a fledgling
pedigree as a songwriter –
Korean boy band SHINee
had a number one hit with
one of her songs, a co-write
with Will Simms. Emma is
unsigned for records and
publishing.
Contact:
bob@bobjamesuk.com
Denai Moore
Emma Stevens
News (cont)
Universal Music Publishing
£
has signed a deal to administer
the entire Sugar Hill music
catalogue in the US.
Former X Factor contestant
£
Diana Vickers has signed a
worldwide record deal with So
Recordings. Her forthcoming
sophomore album Music To
Make Boys Cry has been
A&R’d by Miranda Cooper.
Paradigm Talent Agency last
£
week announced the launch of
a music label called Big Picnic
Records, funded by private
investors and distributed by
Sony’s RED Music.
Jonas Brothers have signed a
£
world ex-US licensing deal with
UMG for the release of the trio’s
as-yet-untitled fifth album, as
well as solo work.
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records of the week
From RotD music consultants Chris Price and Joe Taylor
Let Her Go
Passenger
Surrender
Ball Park Music
May 20
Available now (AUS)
Nettwerk
Though not yet enjoying the sales
figures of his friend and touring partner
Ed Sheeran, Brighton-born singersongwriter Passenger (real name Mike
Rosenberg, whom RotD featured in 2007) can
nonetheless boast some very big numbers
of his own. Not the least of them are the
whopping 17 million views Let Her Go has
received since being posted last summer,
catapulting him to number one in nine
countries including Germany, Ireland and
Australia. Lifted from the critically acclaimed
album All The Little Lights (named iTunes
singer-songwriter album of the year), this
radio-friendly ballad receives a well deserved
UK release on May 20. Though regularly
playing to sell-out crowds around the globe,
Rosenberg keeps up the tireless busking
that gave him his start, amassing real-world
and social media followers everywhere he
goes. Video.
See page overleaf for all contact details
Stop Start (AUS) / unsigned (ROW)
Bubbling up from down under are Brisbane
alt-pop five-piece Ball Park Music, whose
latest trackSurrender could well see their
flying start at home taking off internationally.
Unearthed by Triple J in 2010, the band
released their debut Happiness & Surrounding
Suburbs the following year, and went on
to become Triple J Unearthed Artist of the
Year in 2011, with two songs appearing
in the station’s Hottest 100 list. Within 12
months they had released their follow-up
album Museum, debuting at 9 on the Aria
chart and scoring another two entries in the
Hottest 100, as well as nominations for Triple
J Album of the Year and the highly acclaimed
Australia Music Prize award. The album was
followed by a sold-out 30-date national tour,
multiple festival spots and a Weezer support.
Recording, publishing and agency rights are
available in all territories outside Australia.
Only For Tonight
Zinc feat. Sasha
Keable
Rinse
April 28
Self-styled ‘crack house’ pioneer Zinc has
established himself over the past two
years with his uniquely London vision
of the genre, drawing equally on house,
garage and drum & bass. Following
a string of acclaimed instrumental
EP’s, Only For Tonight works a sweet
vocal into the mix with Sasha Keable
(signed to Tinie Tempah’s Disturbing
London label) ensuring those bass drops
translate seamlessly from dancefloor to
airwaves - regional radio spins are now
building on playlist spots at Kiss and
MTV’s Base and Dance. Rounding out
the package for this bristling track are a
deep house remix from Totally Enormous
Extinct Dinosaurs and another from
newcomers Maison Sky. Video.
Lust and Lies
The Ramona Flowers
Distiller Records
April 28
First featured by RotD in November last year,
Bristol’s The Ramona Flowers have come
on in leaps and bounds in such a short space
of time. The release of classy follow up Lust
and Lies, in which singer Steve Bird’s soaring
falsetto does justice to his surname, comes
on the heals of a 16-date UK tour with
electro-poppers du jour Bastille, attracting
comparisons with Radiohead (NME), The
Temper Trap (The Guardian), Muse and The
xx (Live Magazine). MTV Rocks have already
playlisted the intriguing, cinematic video, with
radio spins already in from Absolute, BBC
Introducing and Q. While this track is easier
on the glitchy electronics than its predecessor,
a remix package from Ladytron and Hot
Chip’s Joe Goddard brings a welcome
element of cut-and-splice to this anthemic
guitar sound.
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records of the week
Passenger
Label: Charlie Larby,
Nettwerk, +44 (0)20 7456 9510
Online: Meg Greenhorn,
Nettwerk, +44 (0)7950 488670
Press: Meg Greenhorn,
Nettwerk, +44 (0)7950 488670
Live: Colin Keenan,
JL Booking Agent
Radio: Joe Mallott,
Mallott Media, +44 (0)7947 280314
Regional Radio: Hart Media,
+44 (0)20 7209 3760
Management: Dan Medland,
IE Management
Ball Park Music
Label: unsigned
Publishing: unsigned
Live: Australian booking agent: Rob G, Select Music
Management: Bill Cullen, One Louder, +61 2 9380 9011
Management: Andy Bryan,
Fingerless Glove Projects, + 61 2 8577 6975
Zinc
Label: Jamie Lee, Rinse
Publishing: EMI Music Publishing
Press: Grace McCracken, FAMILY
Online: Grace McCracken, FAMILY
Live: Belinda Law, Echo Location
TV: Lizzie Dorney-Kingdom,
Big Sister
Radio: Iron, Ammunition
Management: Nadia Moniz,
Bad Management
Hot Natured
Label: Toby Baker, Warner
Bros. Records, +44 20 7368 3626
Publishing: Copyright Control,
except Ali Love - Blue Mountain
Online: Patrick Johnson,
Technique, +44 20 8875 6209
Press: Jon Wilkinson,
Technique, +44 20 8875 6257
Live: Cris Hearn,
Primary Talent, +44 20 7400 4500
Radio: Christian Nockall,
Your Army, +44 20 8964 6700
TV: Natalie Hughes,
Warner Bros. Records
Legal: Nicky Stein,
Clintons, +44 20 7395 8389
Management: Ed Cartwright,
Tusk Management
The Ramona Flowers
Label: Rob Anderson, Distiller
Online: Sarah Richardson, Bleached
Press: Sinead Mills, Bleached
TV: Niki Sanderson / Stuart Kenning, Non Stop
Radio: Prudence Trapini, Rocket
Regional Radio: Jo Hart, Hart Media
Regional Press: Nick Weetch /
Mandy Weetch, Momentum
Club: Dan Kinasz, Your Army
Sport: Tom Roberts, Shoot
tv/radio
Highlights for the coming week
Friday TV
12:30 ITV1
Loose Women – with
Harry Judd from McFly
19:00 Sky Arts 1
Good Rockin’ Tonight:
The Legacy of Sun
Records
21:00 Sky Arts 1
Elvis and June: A Love
Story
22:00 Channel 4
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
- Fall Out Boy perform
22:10 BBC4
Imagine: Tom Jones
- What Good Am I?
22:35 BBC1
The Graham Norton
Show – with Michael
Buble
23:00 Sky Arts 1
Metal Evolution
23:05 BBC2
Later with Jools
Holland - featuring
Suede, Laura Mvula,
Cat Power, the
Strypes, Charles
Bradley and John
Fullbright
23:10 BBC4
Tom Jones at the BBC
Friday Radio
10:00 6 Music
Lauren Laverne Steve Mason is live in
session
13:00 6 Music
Radcliffe and Maconie
– with Rival Sons
19:00 Radio 1
Annie Mac - David
Rodigan supplies the
Mini Mix
19:00 6 Music
Tom Ravenscroft –
featuing a guest mix
from Cloudboat
22:00 Radio 2
The Radio 2 Arts Show
with Claudia
Winkleman – featuring
Annie Lennox
22:00 6 Music
6 Mix - Erol Alkan
00:00 6 Music
Stuart Maconie’s
Freakier Zone - postblack metal with John
Doran
Monday TV
21:00 Sky Arts 1
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi
Hendrix at the Isle of
Wight
Monday Radio
10:00 6 Music
Lauren Laverne - Night
Beds, aka Winston
Yellen live in session
14:00 Radio 2
Steve Wright in the
Afternoon – with
Counting Crows lead
singer Adam Duritz
16:00 6 Music
Steve Lamacq - with
Fang Island in session
19:00 Radio 2
Paul Jones - Pete
Brown guests
22:00 Radio 2
Remembering Humph’
- Humphrey Lyttelton
and Wynton Marsalis
reflect on Louis
Armstrong
23:00 Radio 2
Jools Holland - Bobby
Gillespie guests
00:00 6 Music
One Nation Under a
Groove - Craig Charles
tells the story of
George Clinton’s
career
Tuesday TV
19:00 Sky Arts 1
Behind the Music Boy George
21:00 Sky Arts 1
From the Basement –
Moby
22:00 Sky Arts 1
Moby: Main Square
Festival
22:00 BBC2
Later Live - with Jools
Holland – featuring
Primal Scream, Haim,
Everything Everything,
Ana Moura and Night
Beds, AKA Winston
Yellen
23:30 Sky Arts 1
The Chemical Brothers
- Don’t Think
Tuesday Radio
10:00 Radio 2
Lauren Laverne Stubborn Heart in
session
13:00 Radio 2
Radcliffe and Maconie
- with Guy and Terry
from House of Love
19:00 Radio 2
Jamie Cullum – with
pianist Ahmad Jamal
22:0 Radio 2
Michael Parkinson: My
Favourite Things - Sir
Michael Parkinson with
favourite singers and
songs from the Great
American Songbook
00:00 6 Music
One Nation Under a
Groove - Craig Charles
tells the story of
George Clinton’s
career
Wednesday TV
19:00 Sky Arts 1
Spectacle: Elvis
Costello – Elton John
23:50 Sky Arts 1
Live on Air - Elbow
Wednesday Radio
19:00 Radio 2
The Folk Show with
Mark Radcliffe - with
bluegrass musician
Steve Martin
19:00 6 Music
Marc Riley - The Wave
Pictures live in
session
22:00 Radio 2
The People’s Songs:
Things Can Only Get
Better - Cool Britannia
(1993)
00:00 Radio 1
Huw Stephens Thumpers in session
00:00 6 Music
The Afrobeat
Revolutionary - Neneh
Cherry tells the story
of musical pioneer and
cultural revolutionary
Fela Kuti
Thursday TV
19:00 Sky Arts 1
A Journey Through
American Music – soul
stirrings
22:35 ITV1
The Jonathan Ross
Show – featuring
Suede
10
news
In the news
According to the Sunday
Times Rich List of musical
millionaires, Adele is the
richest young musician in
Britain, with an estimated
£30m, followed by Cheryl
Cole with £14m and Leona
Lewis with £12m. Sir Paul
McCartney and Nancy
Shevell have been named the
richest music millionaires with
a fortune of £680m, followed
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
with £620m. (Express, Sun)
German DJs, supported by
the German Pirate Party,
were last week protesting
on the streets in reaction
to a license fee the native
collection society GEMA
announced on April 1 for DJs
who play and store songs
digitally. (Billboard, Music
Ally)
More than 2,000 people
have signed a petition
against SoundCloud’s new
copyright policy. Users who
pay for premium accounts
are complaining that their
activities are being limited by
policies on mashups, mixes
and more.
The Pirate Bay has switched
to Greenland’s .gl domain in
anticipation of the Swedish
authorities possible attempt
to seize the site’s .se domain.
(TorrentFreak)
The telecoms company in
charge of The Pirate Bay’s
new GL domains says it will
now block the address after
deciding they will be used
illegally. (TorrentFreak)
The total number of digital
singles sold in the UK has hit
one billion, according to data
tracked by the Official Charts
Company. (Official Charts,
Star, Mirror , BBC)
Daft Punk are to debut
their new album Random
Access Memories at the rural
Australian agricultural show
Wee Waa festival on May 17.
(Pitchfork, Billboard, Rolling
Stone)
The owner of LoveLive,
Richard Cohen, aims to make
live streaming of concerts as
big a sport on the web as his
company launches in the US.
(Standard )
Dick Clark Productions will
produce a major new awards
show to honour DJ’s in a
move to take advantage of
the growing EDM category
and to capture advertising
money that is moving into live
events. (NY Post)
High booking fees could be
irradiated as the government
issues guidance that sets out
the kind of costs businesses
incur that they are legitimately
able to claim back through
payment surcharging.
(Register)
The IFPI’s Recording Industry
in Numbers 2013 report
reveals that 22 countries
saw market growth in 2012,
including nine of the top 20
markets; Digital channels
now account for 35%
of overall industry trade
revenues, while physical
sales now represent 57% of
record companies’ income;
Music subscription and
ad-supported streaming
services now account for 20%
of digital revenues globally,
up from 14% in 2011;
Albums continue to hold their
appeal, accounting for 56% of
recorded music sales value.
(RotD, DMN, FT)
A curfew for live events
at Olympic Park this
summer including shows by
Kasabian, Paul Weller and
Bruce Springsteen has been
extended to 11pm. (Standard)
Sales of Vinyl records hit
$177 million last year, their
highest level since 1997,
according to research.
(Times) However only two
million cassette tapes were
sold last year, down from five
million in 2011, according to
the IFPI.
Patti Smith, Boy George,
Siouxsie Sioux and Iggy
and the Stooges will be
among the performers at
this year’s Meltdown festival,
curated by Yoko Ono.
(Guardian) John Lennon’s
final album will be played in
full live for the first time at the
festival.
The Official Charts
Company and the BBC
have agreed a new licence
agreement which confirms
Radio 1 as the radio home of
the Official Singles Chart until
the end of 2016. (RotD)
MAMA Group is to open a
revamped venue in Liverpool
named East Village Arts
Club on 19 April. The venue
was formerly the Barfly.
Sound engineer and producer
Andy Johns has died, the
cause unconfirmed at this
time. (Billboard) He had
engineered records for
Led Zeppelin, The Rolling
Stones, Eric Clapton, Mott
the Hoople and Joni Mitchell,
while producing for the likes
of Free, Van Halen and
Television.
Copyright law solves the
mystery of in Ant and Dec’s
song title’s strange spelling,
writes Dominic Kennedy.
(Saturday Times) Why is
there an ‘h’ in Let’s Get
Ready to Rhumble? Because
“Let’s Get Ready to Rumble”
is a registered trademark. Earl Spencer is under
pressure to explain how
tickets for his Albert Hall
debenture box are being
touted online for more than
three times their face value.
(Saturday Times) For an
Eric Clapton concert next
month, his 12-seat box was
advertised on Viagogo for
£315 per ticket or £4,470
including fees. Last year
trustees and their relatives
were banned from touting
after revelations that they
made £100,000 a year from
tickets. The bylaw was voted
down weeks later.
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media watch
Digital
Pandora has announced
}
that it has passed 200
million registered users
in the US. (Billboard,
Mashable, Hypebot) Mobile
continues to drive growth
with more than 140 million
listeners having tuned in
to Pandora on a mobile
device.
Vevo says one of the
}
reasons it is launching a
UK TV channel is because
there aren’t enough
opportunities for artists to
appear on television. (BBC)
For the third year in a row,
}
YouTube is streaming
the entire first weekend of
Coachella on the festival’s
official YouTube channel.
(Web Pro News)
Spotify has confirmed
}
the full global launch of
the ‘Follow’ tab, which
allows users to follow their
favourite artists, musicians,
celebrities and brands.
(RotD)
Deezer has announced
}
a live music tour of four
of the UK’s major cities in
celebration of the launch
of its free, ad-supported
service in the UK. (RotD)
MusicMetric has released
}
an infographic that details
which artists posted the
biggest gains and profiles
some of the SXSW week’s
top moments including
Deadmau5’s panel
and Kendrick Lamar’s
performance. (Billboard)
Russia says that the
}
government has no
intention of holding illegal
downloaders liable or
having them sent to court in
the battle against internet
piracy. (Torrent Freak)
Apple is close to a deal with
}
two major music labels to
bring to life its streaming
music service, which could
pay labels better than
Pandora does. (CNet) In a mass email to
}
subscribers, BlackBerry
announced that BBM Music
will shut down in June.
(NYPost) They are offering
users a users a 30-day pass
to Rdio. Bastille’s single Pompeii
}
is the most streamed on
Spotify in the UK this
week whereas M83 feat.
Susanne Sundfor’s
Oblivion is the ‘most viral’.
(Hypebot)
Bandcamp has redesigned
}
its home page and added
features, including the
Bandcamp Weekly show,
in order to focus on music
discovery. (Hypebot)
Radio, Television,
Publishing and PR
The full list of nominees
}
for the Sony Radio
Academy Awards has
been released. (RotD,
Radio Today) Christian
O’Connell is up for three
awards [Breakfast Show,
Music Radio Personality
and Use of Branded
Content], BBC Radio 5
live have 10 nominations,
Classic FM received five
and commercial radio
dominates the Station of
the Year category. (Radio
Today) Nick Grimshaw
was not nominated in the
Breakfast Show category
[Breakfast – BBC Radio 3,
Chris Evans – BBC Radio
2, The Christian O’Connell
Breakfast Show – Absolute
Radio, KISS Breakfast
with Rickie, Melvin &
Charlie – KISS and Today
Programme – BBC News
for BBC Radio 4] but did
see a nomination for Best
Use of Multiplatform.
(Express)
Xfm has announced that
}
it has signed the hip-hop
artist Scroobius Pip to host
his own weekly Saturday
night show - The Beatdown
- starting on Saturday 27th
April. (RotD)
4Music and VICE are
}
teaming up to produce six
exclusive shows for a new
late night slot launching
at the end of May. (RotD)
Titled VICE World, the
series is an eclectic mix of
VICE’s weird and wonderful
content from around the
world.
Ofcom has granted
}
permission for Digital
One to extend its national
radio multiplex, currently
serving England, Scotland
and Wales, to Northern
Ireland, bringing 14 new
radio stations including
Absolute Radio, Smooth
Radio, talkSPORT, Jazz
FM, UCB UK
and Kiss UK to the country.
(Radio Today)
The V&A is to fund
}
an Absolute Radio
documentary, which will
elaborate on displays from
the museum’s current
‘David Bowie Is’ exhibition.
(MediaWeek)
Ollie Clueit has launched
}
My Band’s Better PR, with
his full radio roster from
Anorak, which has now
closed.
Laura Martin, former
}
founder and Director of
Anorak London has
launched Real Life PR,
working on artist, event and
brand PR. (RotD)
Listen Up has announced
that it has taken on new
staff member, former Anorak
employee Lucy Allen who
will be joining the company
to head up its event press
department. (RotD)
How Songlines magazine
}
built partnerships around
awards and music sales.
(SpeciaistlMedia)
Aoife Kitt will be joining
}
Six07 Press as Senior
Publicist.
Mike Diver is now Online
}
Editor at Clash magazine,
having previously been
Albums Reviews Editor at
the BBC.
12
the word on…
OMD
English Electric
ADM Rating: 7.0
Label English Electric
UK Release date 08/04/2013
US Release date 09/04/2013
8.0 | The Arts Desk
English Electric is an album
that looks backward but finds
much to reinvent and is, in
consequence, the best thing
OMD have done in 30 years Read Review
8.0 | The Irish Times
What drags it out of the
homage/pastiche area is
the song craft, which is so
ridiculously accomplished
that you have no option but to
whistle from start to finish Read Review
8.0 | Mojo
They wear their Kraftwerklieber as a badge of honour.
Print edition only
8.0 | Consequence Of
Sound
It’s powerful, emotive
stuff proof that electronic
music can have soul, and
that OMD’s soul is, so far,
everlasting Read Review
6.5 | The Line Of Best Fit
Not groundbreaking nor really
anything that competes with
the band’s back catalogue,
but overall it’s a good listen
that will happily satisfy OMD’s
fans Read Review
8.0 | Pop Matters
While it is not the best OMD
album, it is the best OMD
album in at least 29 years Read Review
6.0 | The Scotsman
Despite the back-to-basics
approach, the results
smack of trying too hard to
replicate a happy accident in
laboratory conditions Read Review
8.0 | The Digital Fix
English Electric goes toe to
toe with those early, genredefining works Read Review
7.0 | This Is Fake DIY
On the whole it remains
impressively cohesive, and
perhaps more importantly
never feels like they’re going
through the motions Read Review
7.0 | Uncut
Passages of modish electro
show they are certainly on
top of things, yet their heart
remains pure pop.
Print edition only
6.0 | Evening Standard
It’s the old OMD formula: big
choruses, electronic drums,
no sweat Read Review
6.0 | The Observer
English Electric acts as a
rejoinder to those who think
that synth-pop is best left to
the young Read Review
6.0 | Q
Scouse-poppers still have a
way with a melody.
Print edition only
Paramore
Paramore
ADM Rating: 6.9
Label Atlantic
UK Release date 08/04/2013
US Release date 09/04/2013
8.0 | The Digital Fix
Once nearly derailed, the
stadiums beckon again Read Review
8.0 | The Guardian
At 17 tracks, it’s a little
overlong, but Paramore’s
lively new incarnation suits
them well Read Review
7.0 | NME
This mainstream rebirth feels
like a transitional step to
something gigantic Read Review
9.0 | Drowned In Sound
Lightyears ahead of most
alternative records you’ll hear
this year Read Review
9.0 | All Music
A veritable pop opera about
a band reborn, phoenix-like
from the ashes of a broken
lineup, better and stronger
than any previous incarnation Read Review
8.3 | A.V. Club
Paramore is the rare record
on which a band clearly
wants to assert itself as a
serious artistic force and
actually succeeds Read Review
6.0 | The Observer
There’s much that sounds
like No Doubt shortly before
Gwen Stefani outgrew them
and became a major solo star Read Review
6.0 | Q
It hasn’t got all the best tunes,
but this bullishly self-titled
album hits the target like a
hair-dyed, tattooed William
Tell. Print edition only 3.0 | Sputnik Music (staff)
This shit is all over the place Read Review
7.0 | This Is Fake DIY
A band still discovering who
they are, and this album may
stand as an important step on
that path Read Review
6.0 | The Arts Desk
The album’s incoherent
sequencing means that it
comes across a little like the
work of a band that’s not sure
where it’s going next - but on
the strength of the individual
songs, that where can be just
about wherever it wants Read Review
Brought to you by:
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6am
business
The least banal stories from the week’s pop press
£ Google Play Music has
now launched in Austria,
Australia, Belgium, Ireland,
Luxembourg, New Zealand
and Portugal. (Gizmodo,
Hypebot, NextWeb)
£ An Apple patent granted
on Tuesday would allow
users to buy some
music and other iTunes
content even when offline.
(9to5Mac)
£ Michael Lynton, CEO of
Sony Entertainment and
chairman and CEO of Sony
Pictures Entertainment,
has renewed his contract
for an unspecified amount
of time. (Billboard, FT)
£ Clear Channel Media
and independently-owned
Wind-up Records have
announced an agreement
in which the companies
will share both digital and
broadcast radio revenue
streams. (Billboard)
£ Showsec has won a
lucrative contract to supply
security services to the V
Festival from rival G4S.
(Mail)
£ Global crowdfunding grew
81% to $2.7 billion in 2012,
successfully funding more
than 1 million campaigns.
(Hypebot) Projects related
directly to music and the
recording arts represented
7.5% of total funding, or
$202.5 million.
£ Panasonic Automotive
Systems has announced
the acquisition of Aupeo
GmbH, a content and
audio streaming service
and technology platform
provider, based in Berlin.
(Technology Tell)
£ Bertelsmann could raise
up to $2.5 billion for further
acquisitions from the sale
of some 17% of RTL.
(Billboard)
£ HMV will continue in
reduced form after Hilco
bought 141 shops.
(Billboard, BBC, Saturday
Times, Guardian, FT)
Documents from Deloitte,
the administrator, show
that the chain owed
£347 million when it
failed. The loss includes
£237 million owed to
unsecured creditors,
which Deloitte has said
will go unpaid. Led by
Ian Topping, formerly
chief executive of the
South African retail group
Steinhoff, the revival plan
includes taking HMV back
to its traditional musical
roots by reversing an
earlier decision to sell
tablets in store in order to
“reclaim the space for an
enhanced music and visual
range”.
£ HMV appears close to
being saved in a £50m
deal with Hilco that will
safeguard up to 140
branches. (Guardian,
Independent, Sky,
Telegraph) The deal, which
could be announced as
early as this morning, will
involve HMV emerging
from administration,
backed by a new company
incorporated in the UK.
£ On the Guardian message
board Majorian writes
“Spare a thought for all
those employees and exemployees of HMV and
Waterstones who have lost
10% of their pension pot.
No reporting of this in the
media.”
£ Music and video rights
holder One Media hopes
to strike a chord with
investors as it heads for
Aim next week. (Express)
£ LoveLive wants to raise
£10 million from venture
capital funds to expand its
business streaming live
concerts over the internet.
(Times)
£ Universal Music has won
a contest for distribution
rights to artists under Jay
Z’s Roc Nation label.
(FT, NY Times, NY Post,
LA Times, Billboard) The
multiyear, global deal
will give it a share of the
revenues from forthcoming
albums from Jay Z and
Rihanna, who has been
signed to Universal but
managed by Roc Nation.
£ Audio monitoring
technology company
TuneSat has raised $1.225
million in equity funding to
help fuel its expansion. The
current funding round is
$3 million, according to an
SEC filing dated March 21.
(Billboard)
A Facebook campaign
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Nadezhda “Nadya”
}
Original music manuscripts
}
Newcastle band Bridie
}
set up following the death
of Margret Thatcher
has helped propel Judy
Garland’s ‘The Witch is
Dead’ as high as No2
in the iTunes charts.
(Mail, Independent,
Mirror, Express)
of 150 Beach Boys songs
are to go under the hammer
for nearly £7million.
(Express, Times)
Musicians including Bob
}
Dylan, Don McLean, Joni
Mitchell and James Taylor
were considered as part
of a US Government plan
to undermine communism
in the Soviet Union in the
1970s. (Telegraph, Mail)
The Rolling Stones will
}
play a second concert in
Hyde Park on July 13.
(Times) The first of their
Hyde Park shows sold out
in minutes. Tickets will go
on sale on Friday although
Barclaycard customers can
buy from Wednesday.
Tolokonnikova, of the antiKremlin punk band Pussy
Riot has vowed to continue
her work as a political artist
in her first interview with the
western media since being
sent to prison eight months
ago. (Guardian)
Jackson & The Arbour
have won the Glastonbury
Emerging Talent
competition and will play at
this year’s festival. (CMU)
Alice Cooper has launched
}
a Kickstarter campaign
to fund a ‘shock-rock
horror anthology series’.
(Kickstarter)
Rolling Stones fans have
}
express their anger after
prime standing tickets for
the band’s Hyde Park gig in
London this summer went
on sale for more than £300.
(Express, Mail) The band
have denied the expensive
prices claiming general
tickets are £95 and only
hospitality tickets are £300.
(Sun)
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Official airplay chart
Amazon pre-release albums
Period 8 to 11 April
TWLW points
11Justin Timberlake Mirrors62393
22Pink feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me A 49168
33Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man 36956
47Taylor Swift 2234778
55The Saturdays ft Sean Paul What About... 30953
64Michael Buble It’s A Beautiful Day 29837
76Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven 27714
817
Duke Dumont feat AME & Mnek Need U...26150
910
Swedish House Mafia feat John Martin
Don’t You Worry Child 22137
1019Calvin Harris feat Ellie Goulding
I Need Your Love 21195
1 Michael Buble To Be Loved
2 Fall Out Boy Save Rock & Roll
3 OMD English Electric (Deluxe Amazon Signed Copies)
4 Caro Emerald The Shocking Miss Emerald
5 Daft Punk Random Access Memories
6 Steve Earle The Low Highway
7 David Bowie Aladdin Sane 40th Anniversary
8 Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart
9 Agnetha Faltskog A
10Dr Feelgood All Through The City
Shazam New Release Chart USA
ilr
TWLW
plays points
11Justin Timberlake Mirrors34957
22Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man 33068
33Pink feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me A... 29728
47Rihanna feat Mikky Ekko Stay18719
55Olly Murs Army Of Two 18516
64Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven 26668
76The Saturdays ft Sean Paul What About... 21941
88Michael Buble It’s A Beautiful Day 19544
99Bridgit Mendler Ready Or Not 17470
1012Taylor Swift I Knew You Were Trouble 19823
Music TV Chart UK
TWLW
plays
12Pitbull feat Christina Aguilera Feel This... 425
21The Saturdays feat Sean Paul What About...410
39Duke Dumont feat AME &Mnek Need U... 397
411
Taylor Swift 22376
54Nelly Hey Porsche
374
63Justin Timberlake Mirrors356
75One Direction One Way Or Another...
343
812
Pink feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me...
342
97Bridgit Mendler Ready Or Not
340
106 Disclosure feat Aluna George White Noise 340
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Will.I.Am #thatPOWER
Ariana Grande The Way
Blake Shelton Boys Round Here
Lil Wayne Rich As F**K
Afrojack As Your Friend
Chris Brown Fine China
The Band Perry Done
T.Rone Hello Love
Sean Kingston Beat It
Ciara Body Party
radio 1
radio 1 DJ PICKS
TWLW
plays points
17Duke Dumont ft AME &Mnek Need U...
21Bastille Pompeii
316
Justin Timberlake Mirrors
412
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding I Need...
55Pink Just Give Me A Reason
68Taylor Swift 22
73The Saturdays feat Sean Paul What...
814
Haim Falling
921
A$AP Rocky Goldie
106 Iggy Azalea Work
19 11130
1610509
159621
15 9563
13 9259
159252
159012
138206
138194
137742
radio 2
TWLW
Zane Lowe
The Strypes Blue Collar Jane
Greg James
Armin Van Buuren This Is What It Feels Like
Sara Cox
Wretch 32 Blackout feat Shakka
Dev
Vampire Weekend Diane Young
Nick Grimshaw
DJ Snake Bird Machine
Huw Stephens
Fidlar Max Can’t Surf
Phil and Alice
Watch The Duck Poppin’ Off
Radio 1 playlist additions
plays points
14Justin Timberlake Mirrors
1217312
222
Blue Hurt Lovers
11 17029
310
Hurts Blind
1013647
42Caro Emerald Tangled Up
10 13538
51Andy Burrows If I Had A Heart
9 12562
614
Thea Gilmore Love Came Looking... 7 10858
717
Jenn Bostic Not Yet
9 10605
86Pink feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me... 9 10125
912
Madness How Can I Tell You
7 10052
107 Taylor Swift 22
89825
Wretch 32 Blackout (feat Shakka)
B List
Armin Van Buuren This Is What It Feels Like
C List
Drumsound & Bassline Smith One In A... (ft Fleur)C List
Gabrielle Aplin Panic Cord
C List
Laura Mvula That’s Alright
C List
Little Mix How Ya Doin’ (feat Missy Elliot)
C List
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us
C List
Noah & The Whale There Will Come A Time
C List
Amplify Dot Kurt Cobain
INMWT List
Fidlar Max Can’t Surf
INMWT List
While She Sleeps DeathtollINMWT List
Glass Caves I Knew ItIntroducing
Shazam New Release Chart UK
1 Rudimental Waiting All Night
2 Pitbull Feel This Moment
3 Chris Malinchak So Good To Me
4 Aluna George Attracting Flies
5 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding I Need Your Love
6 Iggy Azalea Work
7 Will.I.Am #thatPOWER
8 Clean Bandit Mozart’s House
9 Jakwob Fade
10The Weeknd Twenty Eight
Radio
Radio 22 record
Record of
of the
the week
Week
Agnetha Faltskog When You Really Loved Someone
Radio
of the
the Week
week
Radio 22 record
album of
Various Artists American Heartland
Radio 2 playlist additions
Rod Stewart It’s Over
Alison Moyet When I Was Your Girl
Dido End Of Night
Gabrielle Aplin Panic Cord
Primal Scream It’s Alright, It’s OK
Stereophonics Graffiti On The Train
Noah & The Whale There Will Come A Time
The Mavericks Born To Be Blue
Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record
In The World
Thursday Enter Shikari - The Paddington Frisk
Monday
Queens Of The Stone Age - My God Is The Sun
Tuesday
Miles Kane - Don’t Forget Who You Are
WednesdayJimmy Eat World - I Will Steal You Back
Popjustice songs of the week
A list
B list
B list
C list
C list
C list
C list
C list
source: www.popjustice.com
MONDAY
No No No - Pumpin’ Blood
MONDAY
Foxes - Beauty Queen
TUESDAY
Diana Vickers - Cinderella
WEDNESDAYRivaz - Colours
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Guardian – New Band Of The Day
Source: music.guardian.co.uk/newbands
Thrusday
Friday Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Vlks
Bishop Nehru
Tokolosh
Phillip Phillips
Dungeonesse
Hype Machine Top 5 Artists
iTunes Music Store top songs
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Duke Dumont Need U
Judy Garland et Al Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Nelly Hey Porsche
Pitbull Feel This Moment (feat Christina Aguilera)
Pink Just Give Me A Reason
Justin Timberlake Mirrors
The Saturdays What About Us (feat Sean Paul)
Bastille Pompeii
Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man
Taylor Swift 22
http://hypem.com/
1
2
3
4
5
Jacques Greene & Tinashe
Ghost Loft
The Knocks
Flying Lotus
Miguel Official
Radio
record Of
of The
the Week
week
itunes2 Single
Fossil Collective Let It Go
iTunes Music Store – us
deezer dance/electro top 10
1 Justin Timberlake Mirrors
2 Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man
3 The Saturdays What About Us
4 Bastille Pompeii
5 Bridgit Mendler Ready Or Not
6 Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven
7 One Direction One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)
8 Emeli Sande Clown
9 James Arthur Impossible
10Justin Timberlake Suit & Tie (feat Jay Z)
Pink Just Give Me A Reason
Luke Bryan Crash My Party
Macklemore feat Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us Down
(feat Ray Dalton)
4 Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man
5 Hunter Hayes I Want Crazy
6 Tim Mcgraw Highway Don’t Care
(feat Taylor Swift & Keith Urban)
7 Florida Georgia Line Cruise (remix feat Nelly)
8 Justin Timberlake Mirrors
9 Avril Lavigne Here’s To Never Growing Up
10 Justin Timberlake Suit & Tie (feat Jay Z)
1
2
3
iTunes Music Store – spain
Pink Try
James Arthur Impossible
Paula Rojo Solo Tu
Pitbull Feel This Moment
Yandar & Yostin Te Pintaron Pajaritos (feat Andy
Riviera)
6 Cali y El Dandee No Digas Nada (De Ja Vu)
7 Avril Lavigne Here’s To Never Growing Up
8 The Lumineers Ho Hey
9 Alicia Keys Girl On Fire
10Bruno Mars Locked Out Of Heaven
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2
3
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5
MUST Just Wait
London Grammar Metal & Dust
CHVRCHES Recover
HAIM Falling
Haxari Heavy Dreams
amazing radio
A List Circa Waves Young Chasers
Close Beam Me Up ft Charlene Soraia &
Scuba
Department M I’ll Fax You an Apology
FIDLAR Max Can’t Surf
Flume Holdin On
George Maple Fixed
Half Moon Run Full Circle
In The Valley Below Peaches
Luke Sital-Singh Bottled Up Tight
Melody’s Echo Chamber Crystallized
NONONO Like The Wind
Ruen Brothers Aces
S O H N Bloodflows
The Hics Cold Air
Valentiine Love Like
B List Big Deal In Your Car
Blessa Pale
Brolin Reykjavik
Deptford Goth Feel Real
Elephant Skyscraper
FOAM So Far So Good
Ghostpoet Meltdown
Heaven’s Basement I Am Electric
Hiatus We Can Be Ghosts Now (feat
Shura)
Highasakite In and out of weeks
Holy Esque Saint
Josh Record Bones EP
Kisses The Hardest Part
Makthaverskan Asleep
Mazes Skulking
Potty Mouth Damage
Saturday Monday The Ocean
Tawiah Faces
The Child Of Lov Fly
The Slow Revolt This Dark Matter
The Wildes Come & Go
C List Blondfire Hide And Seek
Bridie Jackson and The Arbour Scarecrow
Cut Yourself in Half Do It Or Die
Dutch Uncles Bellio
Father Sculptor Lowlands
Hawk Eyes You Deserve a Medal
Sin Fang What’s Wrong With Your Eyes
Strangers Something New
Swim Deep She Changes The Weather
Syd Arthur Dorothy
SZA Ice Moon
To Kill A King Funeral
Wampire The Hearse
Specialist Spot Plays Crusades Pseudo Andro
FTSE A Little Sumthin ft Biploar Sunshine
Haleek Maul I Dun Wanna B Judged
HYDRABADD Sanctuary ft Abra (Radio Edit)
King Garbage Telephone
Nadine Shah Dreary Town
Key
Non-Mover
Move Up
New Addition
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