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He’s going the distance
issue 528 / 23 may 2013
Top 5 must-read
articles
record of the week
} Prince is to release music
Magnetic
Fenech-Soler
by new artists, as well
as his own recordings,
by utilising Kobalt’s label
services. (RotD)
} The Mute group of
companies has appointed
Shirin Foroutan as Global
Managing Director of the
Mute group and Dick
O’Dell joins as Head of
Artist Management. (RotD)
} Obituary: Ray Manzarek,
keyboard player with
the Doors. (Guardian,
Independent)
Warner Bros
July 1
Cross-fertilising indie and electronica since 2010’s wellreceived eponymous debut album, Northamptonshire’s
Fenech-Soler appear to have found a virulent new strain of
synthpop in forthcoming follow-up Rituals, due out on Warner
Bros in September. Preceded by teaser tracks All I Know
late last year and Hype Machine-topping Maiyu early this,
the first single proper is Magnetic, a sweeping rush of energy
and heavy hooks that will have dance tents bouncing at
festivals all summer long, booked as the band are to appear
at Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds and more. (Get an early peak
at their live show at Camden’s Electric Ballroom tonight.)
Though Rituals is produced largely by the band themselves,
their decision to draft in guest producers Tim Goldsworthy
and Style of Eye betrays vocalist Ben Duffy’s unabashed
ambition to make a pop record that would ‘connect with
people on a universal level’. Mission accomplished.
See page 10 for contact details
P3 Review: The Great
Escape 2013
P4 Interview: Vanessa
Plus all the regulars
Access Memories’: A
timeline of the global teaser
campaign. (Billboard)
streams were served since
the Official Streaming
Chart was launched a year
ago. (OCC, BBC)
P2 Comment
Reed, PRs for Music
Foundation
} Daft Punk’s ‘Random
} More than 4.4 billion
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P4 Interview: Vanessa Reed
P6 Compass: Wolf Alice
P9 Electric Guest
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comment
David Balfour wonders if there’s a sustainable business in the internet radio space.
There’s a huge amount of activity happening
in the internet radio space. The term ‘internet
radio’ isn’t one we like much, but it enables
us to differentiate from ‘digital radio’.
Where digital radio typically means DAB
transmission of traditional broadcast radio
stations, internet radio is generally applied to
digital streaming services which only exist in
the digital space.
The most famous example of such an
internet radio service would be the US
operation Pandora, which is of course absent
from Europe. A number of similar services
do however already exist in Europe and – if
rumour is to be believed – they are shortly to
be joined by major new mobile internet radio
services from some of the biggest players in
digital music. Apple’s entry into the market
has been mooted for some time. Nokia
recently launched its own Mix Radio service
in Europe, whilst Google Play recently added
a radio element to its All Access streaming
service (albeit only in the US for now).
Meanwhile, services such as Napster and
Spotify have long included radio elements
which are frequently overlooked when people
talk about their overall offering. We know a
number of Spotify users who are avid fans
of its artist radio function. Strangely, it rarely
warrants a mention in the media coverage of
the company.
The term internet radio is of course poorly
fitting when you consider that much of this
listening is now happening on mobile devices
over wifi – almost totally removed from the
traditional internet of websites. Another term
which is commonly used within the industry
to describe these services is ‘non interactive
digital radio’. This gets closer to describing
what traditionally unites these services – it’s
primarily a question of licensing.
One of the primary reasons that services
such as Pandora have prospered and grown
so large is that they have been able to launch
without having to engage in the costly and
complex rights negotiations faced by most
on-demand digital services. By limiting the
functionality of their services, they have been
able to secure all the licenses they need via
collecting societies such as SoundExchange,
in the US, or PPL in the UK. Typically this
means that users are served with a selection
of music according to algorithms, and are
limited in how they can influence their stream
– they might be able to skip a certain number
of songs in an hour, but their influence on the
stream goes no further.
Whilst non-interactive services may not
have to engage in licensing every rights
holder individually, they do still have to pay
to use music. Pandora in particular has
complained vocally that it cannot make a
profitable business based on the rates that
it must pay SoundExchange. In the US,
where this market is far more developed
and popular than in Europe, its rivals such
as Clearchannel’s iHeartRadio have sought
to cut their royalty obligations by licensing
directly with rightsholders and cutting
SoundExchange out of the deal completely.
If rumour is to be believed, Apple is also
seeking to license direct with rightsholders.
This could be an attempt to lower its royalty
obligations to below statutory rate. It’s also
very likely to be because the type of service
it wants to launch cannot be covered by the
traditional webcasting or on-demand licenses
offered by collecting societies.
We find it interesting that there seems to
be so much launch activity in this particular
area of the business right now. Is it because
digital companies spy a more profitable model
here, compared with on-demand streaming?
We suspect that one of the main appeals of
this part of the market is scale. Pandora has
shown its ability to attract huge user numbers.
By offering a free, advertising supported
service, that company was able to claim in
2012 user numbers in the region of 150m.
Whilst Pandora has struggled to generate
enough advertising to be profitable, it’s clear
that a huge opportunity exists in this space
– especially for companies that are expert at
selling advertising. Such services also hold
clear appeal for a great many consumers
who are very happy to be served with a radio
stream rather than having to choose every
track for themselves. What concerns us is
whether, as these services get ever more
sophisticated, yet are mostly offered free to
the user, do they inevitably undermine the
appeal of the £10 a month cost of Spotify or
Deezer’s Premium subscriptions?
The trend towards direct licensing of such
services also poses a potential threat to many
musicians. When these services are licensed
direct with rights holders, we suspect that the
performers’ rights which are typically handled
by collecting societies are also being included
in the deals. Whilst collecting societies
generally do a pretty good job of distributing
these royalties to performers and featured
artists – not just the owners of the actual
sound recording - will the big rights holders
do as well? Also, as tech companies seek to
license these services direct, they are often
seeking to lower the statutory rate that they
would traditionally pay. Whilst they may talk a
good game about increased efficiencies and
greater eventual revenue for rights holders,
there’s a clear danger that their real goal
is to drive down the cost of licensing such
services.
Whilst there are dangers for the industry
with these emerging services, there are also
great opportunities. They offer a genuine
prospect of reaching huge numbers of people
who have never really engaged with digital
music. The ability to access of such services
on smartphones, potentially without charge,
offers a route to reaching millions of people
in a very direct and appealing way. What
remains to be seen is whether the advertising
revenue from these apps can be made to
balance out with the royalty obligations. Will
these services be able to pay for themselves,
or will they need to rely on some kind of
upsell to subscription or purchase? It’s going
to be interesting to watch how these big new
players define their view of the market.
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The Great Escape 2013
Liz Stokes reviews Brighton’s Great Escape festival.
While our American counterparts do music
conferences basking in heat-drenched fields
and eating sushi our British equivalent is, well,
British. We eat fish and chips, we agonise over
whether we’ll need a coat for the day and we
have meetings on our stoney beach purely
because we’re near the sea and feel the need
to take advantage. It’s amazing then that, in
spite of our all-year-round winter, once a year
a healthy number of the British music industry
and many more from across Europe and
beyond can be found taking over Brighton for
a long weekend of industry chat and exciting
new music.
The draw to Brighton has become stronger
and stronger over The Great Escape’s eight
year history and now boasts around 3,000
delegates and 16,000 festival goers over its
three days. With the ease of London only a
short train journey away, our local seaside
town has proven to be the ideal home as those
who escape sleep slip back up to the capital
unnoticed only to return looking decidedly
more fresh faced than others the next morning.
International partakers also use the opportunity
to grab an afternoon in the City before heading
back for the cream of the new music crop.
The two strands to The Great Escape – the
conference and the music festival - continue
to have strong relevance to all. Panels were
well attended right up to the last one and gigs
saw the ever-present winding queues and
eager faces that we have come to associate
with our TGE foray. Although always a popular
town in its own right, the three music industry
May days must be a great boost for Brighton’s
pubs, restaurants and shops alike who may
not strictly be taking part in the festival but
always appear to have an influx of those
flexing their expenses credit cards.
The two resounding themes from the panels
this year were no surprise: streaming and
social media. Both areas lend themselves to
discussion and have a long list of commenters
that are willing to share their knowledge or
analysis. YouTube was once again in the firing
line at the PRS for Music presents Marketing
Value of Digital Services where Jemima Kiss
from The Guardian half-joked the services
“greedy”, something that co-panelist and
YouTube Music representative Patrick Walker
was keen to dispel, claiming “user-friendly”.
Spotify was also ready to defend itself and
solidify streaming’s place in the market as the
company’s TGE speaker Mark Williamson
explained how if all streaming services get
100million subscribers in total worldwide then
the industry would be back to pre-Napster
figures. Interestingly, Deezer highlighted how
the statistics provided by the service, including
where the music is being played by location,
offer a level of fan data that has never been
open to the industry before and as a result is
already proving its worth.
Social media and how to use it was
discussed in nearly all panels this year. Where
we can see it clearly has an undeniable
importance to the industry and the artists in
it, there was a sense of social media fatigue
from delegates. We seem to have exhausted
the subject of how to maximise our Facebook
pages or engage successfully on Twitter
and talk of ‘traditional’ media is back on the
table. Although stats are down for the print
music weeklies and monthlies there was a
resounding echo that what they say is still
of utmost importance, and not just on their
websites. BBC Introducing was hailed as an
amazing way to find a voice on the radio and
networking in places where journalists hang
out was also top of agendas in Saturday’s
Building a Profile As A DIY Artist panel.
Elsewhere, Remi Harris was interviewed
by CMU’s Chris Cooke in Friday afternoon’s
MusicTank presents The Finance Question.
She revealed that she is penning a guide to
music industry finance focusing on what she
called the ‘Internal Funding Model’ of the music
industry (getting advances from other players
in the value chain) and how its no longer
sufficient to alone fund artist development.
Harris also described as the ‘Trade-Off’ in
every funding transaction, saying, “We spend
a lot of time trying to get a label for artists, and
then managing that relationship. A trade-off
happens in every funding transaction, whether
with an investor, a bank, a grant funder or the
fans who crowd-fund you, so the book will
look closely at what these funders expect, and
how the relationship with them needs to be
approached.”
Outside of the panels, The Great Escape
is of course renown for its trend-setting
showcases and this year was no different.
Particular highlights came from London
foursome Mt Wolf who proved why they have
been enjoying consistent buzz from the Hype
Machine chart. The band’s lead vocalists Kate
Sproule’s operatic tones were so consistent
she silenced all in attendance at Mesmerist
on Friday evening. In total contrast, Mykki
Blanco brought charisma rarely seen in the
mainstream to Audio as she prowled the stage
in a dress looking more at home than most
do in their own living room. Her unique blend
of theatrics, spoken word, poetry and heartaffecting deep bass courtesy of her DJ saw an
audience of adoring fans topped up with Mikill
Pane and Huw Stephens for good measure.
Fittingly, it was a Stephens-championed band
that gave TGE13 its biggest buzz ripple: Clean
Bandit. Having performed at the same festival
twice last year it may have been a slow start
for the now Warner-signed Motzart’s House
performers but it would seem their late night
Friday show had the desired effect and news
of their classical violin-infused tracks are
beginning to break through.
Across the three days the likes of Bipolar
Sunshine, Lowell, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
and To Kill a King also received rave reviews
and look as though they’re about to set the
musical agenda over the coming months.
Hats off to Great Escape’s organisers this
year who really seemed to have listened to
previous criticisms about queuing issues
and, bar some of the larger shows, most had
little to no problem getting to everything they
wanted to see. Panels generally felt more
aimed towards artists than the industry but
new topics and vital statistics were still drawn
none-the-less and The Great Escape has
once again shown its worth to our rainy British
music industry.
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interview
Q&A with Vanessa Reed, Executive
Director, PRS For Music Foundation
Can you explain what the
Momentum Music Fund is
and how it came about?
Momentum is a brand new
funding programme - backed
by Arts Council England and
managed by PRS for Music
Foundation - that aims to help
stimulate artist development
in the commercial music
industry. The fund launched
last Friday (May 17th) at
The Great Escape and will
eventually see £500,000
distributed to between 50-75
artists over two years. The
fund is open to artists making
all forms of ‘popular music’
but it is aimed specifically
at those who are already
making waves and starting to
build an audience. The first
application deadline closes
on June 28th.
The fund came about
when Arts Council England
began to have a conversation
with the industry about
the ways in which artist
development has traditionally
been supported and how
these are starting to evolve.
In parallel with that, the
Foundation had also been
looking at ways that we could
develop some of our existing
programmes for individual
artists and bands, such as our
music export initiative British
Music Abroad, and within
the industry there’s been a
longer standing conversation
around the issue of access
to finance and how this was
becoming a real barrier for
artists, managers, publishers
and independent labels. All
of this came together, in a
more formal consultation led
by Arts Council England, of
which Momentum is the end
result. I think everyone
concluded that, for a wide
variety of reasons, that talent
development is not being
supported to the level that it
could be, and that there are
now far more pressures on
artists to make themselves
‘market ready’ - for instance,
by self-funding recordings
or by developing an online
presence. Momentum is a
response to those pressures
and will work very much as
a pilot programme - offering
financial assistance to
distinctive and high quality
artists at critical moments in
their development.
PRS for Music Foundation
has past experience of
working with the Arts
Council England, has this
helped get the fund off the
ground?
We have worked with ACE
on various funding schemes
- and most prominently on
British Music Abroad, our
music export programme.
It’s obviously a very exciting
project for the Foundation
to be involved with and, of
course, it fits with our aim to
support the development of
new music and the people
who make it.
In terms of the consultation,
how much interest was
there in initiatives from
other countries - and
particularly in Canada with
its FACTOR programme
- that help fund artists in
their commercial sector?
We were all very aware of
these successes - particularly
in Canada, Sweden and
Norway - which have come
about through public funding,
or via public funders working
with the private sector. In
Canada, for instance, their
model is based upon a
combination of commercial
radio and public funding.
There’s certainly a lot to
learn from those international
funding models, that have
helped spur success for the
likes of Arcade Fire, Grimes,
Fever Ray, The Knife and
many others.
From the Foundation’s
existing programmes, how
much evidence is there that
funding can have a positive
impact?
Our experience of running
British Music Abroad tells us
that using relatively small
amounts of funding can
have a significant impact
on an artist’s development.
Around 90% of the acts that
we help to attend showcases
like SXSW come back
with tangible outcomes.
For example, in 2013, we
supported artists like Dan
Croll and Luke Sital-Singh to
attend SXSW - and already,
as a direct result, Dan has a
US label deal and Luke has
various offers on the table.
From a funder’s perspective
it’s encouraging that artists
can make a relatively large
return on quite a modest
investment.
How will the Momentum
process operate over the
two years? How can
artists apply?
There will be four rounds a
year, across the two years.
Vanessa Reed
To apply for the
fund, artists or their
representatives simply have
to complete a very straight
forward online process at
prsformusicfoundation.com
The two key criteria we
will be looking at are: the
quality and originality of your
music and your commercial
case for funding. Because
we’re targeting artists that
will already have some sort
of profile, we’re anticipating
that the quality of the music
will be a given. So what we
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“The two key
criteria we
will be looking
at are: the
quality and
originality of
your music and
your commercial
case for
funding.”
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features
Artist features this week
}} will be focussing more on is
the business case: how they
plan to progress from where
they are now to where they
want to be in the future, and
how funding is going to help
them achieve that. As this is
a pilot fund, we will of course
be finetuning our criteria and
assessment process as we
go along.
What kind of activities
might be eligible for
funding?
It’ll be activities like live
touring in the UK, marketing
around a specific project, or
recording costs. However, we
also want to leave the criteria
open enough that we’re not
being too prescriptive, and
that artists can tell us what it
is they most need. We want
Momentum to be responsive
to real needs within the
industry.
What activities are
out-of-bounds?
We are not able to support
international touring with this
fund. We know that there is a
big gap there, but £500,000
is too modest an amount of
money. And we can’t cover
international showcasing as
that’s already covered by
British Music Abroad.
You’ve also ensured that
managers, publishers,
independent labels and
other representatives can
apply on behalf of one of
their artists - why is that?
Absolutely. This fund is
not aimed at artists who
don’t have a track record,
so we would expect them
to have some kind of team
around them, or at least the
beginnings of a team. So we
think it’s totally reasonable
for one of those team
members to apply on the
artist’s behalf - so long as
it’s focussed on one specific
artist and for a specific
purpose.
When it comes to awarding
the funds - who will make
that decision?
From past experience we
understand the importance
of transparency and will be
working with a large pool of
independent advisers from
across the industry, all of
whom have different levels
of expertise. At each of the
four annual deadlines we will
rotate the panel of experts to
ensure that different people
will be making decisions.
If the Momentum Fund is
a two-year pilot, what are
the long term ambitions
here for PRS For Music
Foundation? In the short term, we want
to evaluate closely the work
that we’re doing and see how
we can develop, sustain and
grow the fund for the benefit
of the industry. Our longer term goal is
for Momentum to become
a significant resource that
will support some of this
country’s most distinctive
and talented artists and
help them reach the widest
possible audience. We’ll
need more funding partners
to achieve this so we’re
beginning to have those
conversations now.
Neil McCormick pays tribute
to Ray Manzarek, the
keyboardist and founding
member of The Doors who
has died at the age of 74.
(Telegraph)
Forget Jim Morrison. It was
Ray Manzarek’s cascading
keyboards that made the
Doors sound so thrilling.
(Guardian2 p18 - Alexis
Petridis)
Obituary: Ray Manzarek,
keyboard player with the
Doors. (Guardian p33,
Times p47, Telegraph p33,
Independent p49)
Interview with Nile Rodgers,
who says he’s working with
David Guetta, Avicci, and
has discovered a “long lost
Chic album” which will be
out soon. (Official Charts Martin Talbot)
The men behind the masks:
Daft Punk (Sun p36, 37
Tom Thorogood)
People are daft about Daft
Punk, crazy enough to
spend thousands of dollars
on helmets resembling what
the two pop stars are usually
wearing. (WSJ)
Daft Punk’s puzzling new
album. (New Yorker Sasha Frere-Jones)
Snoop Lion’s dream to
create world peace with
weed. (Star p26-27)
Daft Punk’s ‘Random
Access Memories’: A
timeline of the global teaser
campaign. (Billboard)
Jon Bon Jovi speaks about
the moment he found out his
daughter had taken a heroin
overdose. (Mirror p20-21)
Daft Punk’s new album
is astoundingly ambitious,
creating a frenzy even
before it has appeared. On
the eve of its release – and
20 years since they made
their first record in their
bedroom as teenagers –
Dorian Lynskey gets beyond
the helmets to talk to the
notoriously shy French duo.
(Observer) Includes RotD
quote.
Is Ivor Novello winning
Calvin Harris actually a
songwriter? (Telegraph)
A grant from the Prince’s
Trust and a win on Deal
or No Deal gave him the
money to build a studio,
while producing Emeli
Sandé’s debut gave him
his calling card now, British
urban music’s backroom
boy, Naughty Boy, is ready
to release his own album.
(Friday Standard)
10 takeaways from
the Great Escape. (Irish
Times - Jim Carroll
Simon Price on Brighton›s
The Great Escape festival:
So when did young people
get so old? (IoS)
Breaking act: The 1975
(Sunday Times)
This weekend’s Field Day
festival in east London is
packed with storming new
acts. (Independent p51)
Disclosure: how the
Lawrence brothers are
revolutionising dance culture
(Guardian Guide)
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The hottest unsigned acts of the moment from RotD music consultant Chris Price.
The Wytches
Wolf Alice
The Wytches
Wolf Alice
If you’re not on the long list
of labels talking to North
London genre-bending
four piece Wolf Alice right
now, join the not-so-orderly
queue. First release Fluffy
sold out all of its 500 limited
edition copies, earning an
addition to the Xfm evening
playlist and a no. 1 Hype
Machine placing for B-side
White Leather. Follow-up
single Bros – poppier and
more accessible than its
predecessor – came out on
Monday via Chess Club and
enjoyed a three-week run on
Radio 1’s INMWT list, with
records of the week from
Jo Whiley and Phil Taggart
& Alice Levine. Press love
is building too – notably a
Radar piece in NME and a
New Band of the Day from
the Guardian. Currently in the
middle of a sizeable UK tour,
Wolf Alice return to London
for a sold-out show at the
Lexington on June 4. Expect
big things.
Contact: [email protected]
Capitalising on their localhero status, Brighton-based
psychedelic surf-doom
act The Wytches drew
huge and rapturous home
crowds for all of their shows
at The Great Escape last
week, causing (we hear)
something of a mini riot
at The Mesmerist and an
industry queue that saw
many miss out on their NME
Haunt show. Debut single
Beehive Queen, out on June
3 via Hate Hate Hate, has
received specialist play at
Radio 1 Xfm and 6Music,
with good press from NME
and a Guardian New Band
of the Day. Booked by
Jason Edwards at 13 Artists,
the band have previously
supported Temples, Death
Grips, Ice Age, METZ and
Drenge. You can catch them
tonight (May 23) at Tipsy Bar
in Dalston, stage time 21.30.
Contact: Julian@
raygunmusic.com
Du Tonc
A disco-pop outfit formed
of UK producer/DJ Mighty
Mouse and Australia’s
Matthew Van Schie (of Van
She fame) really ought to
be something special, and
Du Tonc certainly don’t
disappoint. So far two low-key
releases – Darkness and
Surging Memories – have
seen the light of day via
Cheap Thrills, the former
featuring in Tensnake’s
Radio 1 Essential Mix,
pulling in 125k Soundcloud
plays to date and a Hype
Machine number two placing.
Shimmering disco follow-up
Surging Memories, posted
two weeks ago, is already
approaching 100k plays
and has likewise sent the
blogosphere into a lather.
Remaining unsigned for
records, Du Tonc have been
approached by a number of
US labels and are believed
to be talking to management
companies. Booking looks to
be pretty sewn up to judge
from their Facebook page,
accounting for their extensive
forthcoming live/DJ hybrid
tour ahead of a fully live show
at the end of the year. Catch
them at XOYO in London on
June 14 before they return
to the US and Mexico for
further dates.
Contact: [email protected]
Various Cruelties
We weren’t looking for the
missing link between Arctic
Monkeys and the golden
age of doo-wop, but Various
Du Tonic
Various Cruelties
Cruelties – according to the
Guardian at least – may well
be it. Describing themselves
as a ‘mod/goth/pop
incarnation’ (mod and pop
– yes, goth – not so sure),
the London four piece aren’t
brand new, but they do seem
to be enjoying a new lease
of life in the US recently,
where their self-released,
eponymous debut album has
sold 60k units to date. Thanks
largely to a commercial sync
for American diamond store
Zales, the band were invited
onto the Tonight Show with
Jay Leno to perform If It
Wasn’t For You, while a cover
of Ian Brown’s F.E.A.R. is
currently being used on the
trailer for HBO/Showtime
series Banshee. Singer Liam
O’Donnell is in LA writing
album number two with Isom
Innis (Foster The People)
and Drew Lawrence (who cowrote Christina Perri’s Jar of
Hearts), while album number
one is attracting attention
from major and indie labels in
the US.
Contact:
[email protected]
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}} News
£ BBC Introducing
discoveries Ruen
Brothers, enjoying
continued radio play for
new single Walk Like A
Man, are believed to be at
long-form contract stage
with a major US label for
the world.
£ Singer-songwriter Luke
Sital-Singh, whose most
recent track Bottled Up
Tight was playlisted at
Radio 1, is also at longform stage with a major UK
label.
£ Sony/ATV Music
publishing has signed a
long-term extension to its
administration agreement
with Sting, including both
his solo work and from
his time with the Police.
(Billboard)
£ London duo D-E-W-L,
producers and remixers for
St. Lucia and Foxes and
now recording in their own
right, are understood to be
close to signing.
£ Grammy-winning
songwriter, singer and
guitarist Ben Harper
has signed an exclusive,
worldwide co-publishing
music week
agreement with BMG
Chrysalis US. (A&R
Worldwide)
£ Franz Ferdinand
have severed their ties
with Sony in Asia and
have teamed up with
Tokyo-based Hostess
Entertainment. (McClure)
£ Tileyard Music have
struck a worldwide
administration deal with
Notting Hill Music.
(MusicWeek)
£ Transgressive Records
will be re-releasing At
The Drive-Ins seminal
turn-of-the-century
album ‘Relationship Of
Command’ on vinyl on 5
August. (CMU)
£ Prince will be releasing
new material with the help
of Kobalt Label Services.
The deal covers all of
Prince’s new music as well
as projects by other artists
that he has produced.
(RotD)
£ Paul Carey of The Music
Management has been
appointed manager for
UK+Europe for US band
The Polyphonic Spree.
The 20+ strong band will
release their new album
this summer and will
support the release with
a number of UK festival
appearances, including
Camp Bestival and
Bestival. £ Sony Music recently
signed the Swedish
Australian duo Say Lou
Lou.
£ Cooking Vinyl has
announced new worldwide
service deals with Ali
Campbell and Seth
Lakeman. (RotD)
Ones to watch
Saint Raymond, D-E-W-L,
Wolf Alice, Coasts, Laurel,
Waylayers, New Desert
Blues, Brolin, Dancing Years,
Circa Waves, Tom The Lion,
The Mispers, Moko, Indiana,
SOAK, Du Tonc, The River
and The Road, Little Daylight,
Florrie, IYES, Wilsen, Sinead
Harnett, Kyan Kuatois, Ben
Khan, Superfood, Kwabs,
Ruen Brothers, Ady Suleiman,
Sivu, Jetta, Bipolar Sunshine,
Phoria, Sir Sly, Wonder
Villains, Various Cruelties, The
Wytches, Matt Woods
£ The Arts Council and PRS
has announced details of their
Momentum funding initiative.
£500,000 will be made
available to developing artists,
independent labels and other
music-related ventures. (p1)
£ Kobalt appoint Ann Tausis as
MD of Neighbouring Rights
Management, replacing Sabine
Jones who is leaving for a
consultancy position (p1)
£ Spotify is hoping to take its
subscriber base to 100 million
in the next two to three years.
(p2)
£ Youtube’s senior director of
Europe, Middle-East and Africa
calls for greater transparency
from rights holders in relation
to streaming agreements and
royalties. (p2)
£ Max Lousada has appointed
1Xtra DJ Alex ‘Twin B’ Boateng
as A&R director at Atlantic
Records (p2)
£ Stephen Godfroy on the secret
to Rough Trade’s success and
details their expansion. (p3)
£ Pete Tong heralds Calvin
Harris’ Ivor success and states
that there is still progress to be
made in dance music ahead of
IMS in Ibiza (p5)
£ The Big Interview: Blair
MacDonald and Charlie Larby
on their recent success at
Nettwerk Music Group (p10-11)
£ Rhian Jones examines the pros
and cons of paperless ticketing
in the live sector. (p12-13)
£ Radio 1 controller, Ben Cooper,
says he was fully prepared for
a drop in the stations ratings
as they continue to lose older
listeners. (p14-15)
£ Things are looking good for
Global Radio as Capital shows
the biggest commercial reach
and Xfm’s listenership grows
(p16)
£ Musicweek speaks to key
companies in the dance music
sector ahead of IMS in Ibiza
(p17-18)
£ Simon Jones of Hackford
Jones PR takes a look back
over the companies’ successes
and stories of the last ten years
(p22)
7
media mongrel
£ Neil McCormick questioned
whether Ivor Novello
winning Calvin Harris is
actually a songwriter in the
Telegraph. We don’t agree
with him, but he states his
case pretty well. Harris
himself was humbled and
hugely appreciative of
the award, saying “I can’t
believe I’ve even been let
through the door of this
ceremony. This is easily
the greatest achievement
of my life”.
£ Along with humility and
gratitude, there were
plenty of lighter moments
at the Ivors. Calvin said
he’d keep his speech
“like my lyrics, brief and
repetitive,”, while Paul
Gambaccini, after reading
out the large number of
winners involved with
Emeli Sande’s Next To Me
described the list as ‘sort
of like the side effects after
a drugs commercial”.
£ Marc Almond thanked “the
many, many, many, many,
many, many, many, many,
many, many, many record
labels I’ve been on … we
got there in the end”. We’re
not sure if each many was
calculated to reflect the
total number of labels, but
it was a point well made.
Noel Gallagher told a
story about how he wanted
to convert his garage
into “a creative space” to
write songs. To which his
wife replied ‘I’ve never
seen you write a song.’
Lily Allen, a previous
winner, disappointed,
saying nothing meaningful
and just giggling before
handing over an award.
Fleetwood Mac’s Christine
Mcvie, rarely seen out and
about, but apparently a
fan of Emeli Sande, who
didn’t show, was largely
ignored by the throng who
collected the award. But
as so often before, it was
the composer we’d never
heard of, Errollyn Wallen,
who provided our favourite
moment. She said, aged
nine, she told her uncle
she “could hear all these
sounds in her head”, to
which her uncle replied “I
think you’re a composer”.
£ In the US, Amazon are
selling Daft Punk’s CD
for $9.97, a mere £6.62.
Hits reported Get Lucky
has been a hit at an
unprecedented six radio
formats prior to release
date, including Pop,
Rhythmic, Modern Rock
and Hot AC, with a bit of
Triple A and Urban. Album
sales are expected to top
300,000 this week.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
£ The Dome bar at The
Great Escape was like
Cheers for us - it did feel
like everyone knew our
name. Or at least enough
people to have a very
enjoyable couple of hours
catching up with friends
before heading out to gigs.
Post gigs, the Queen’s
Hotel bar was stilling
rocking at 3.15am when
we dragged ourselves
away. There aren’t many
jobs where it feels like you
can find value being in a
bar at that time, but we are
happy to have one.
£ Which very long-standing
employee of a certain
three-lettered company is
heading to a three-lettered
trade body?!
The Entertainment Retailers’ Association this week celebrated their
25th anniversary with a round of golf, or just lunch for those
who either caouldn’t play, or have found cycling is actually
the new golf. A healthy 18 teams competed and it marked a
reunion of many of the instigators of ERA.
In what can surely only be a cynical ploy to gain media
coverage, both RotD’s Paul Scaife and Music Week’s Dave
Roberts won the top prizes in a charity raffle, thus ensuring
a photo in respective publications. £3,500 was raised for the
Teenage Cancer Trust, so all good.
£ Kobalt took five pages
of advertising in Billboard
last week, along with more
in Music Week. Which
is enough to think they
are deliberately drawing
attention to themselves
and so we can all wildly
speculate they are heading
for an IPO.
£ Which distributor is said to
have over extended itself,
leaving it rather low on
cash?
£ There’s early speculation
HMV are to move from
their Oxford Street flagship
store to their old store at
363 Oxford Street. Which
would be an excuse to
make it look like this again!
£ Just for fun, Popjustice
nail product placement in
promo videos brilliantly.
8
records of the week
From RotD music consultants Chris Price and Joe Taylor
Wallow
Coasts
Tidal Recordings
July 8
Another act worth adding to your
schedule for The Great Escape this
weekend are unsigned Bristol five piece
Coasts, whose Foals-esque new track
Wallow is released on July 8. Previous
single Oceans was a Next Hype for
Zane Lowe, with Huw Stephens, Jen &
Ally, John Kennedy and Amazing Radio
all showing some love, while their first
London show at the Barfly sold out
in March with the help of a Ones To
Watch feature in The Fly. Wallow has
just gone to radio, earning an addition
to the Amazing Radio A list, and racking
up a respectable 60k YouTube views
in four weeks. A UK and European tour
now beckons during May and June, with
Reeperbahn to follow in September. Well
worth keeping a close eye on this band.
EDM Death Machine
Knife Party
This Head I Hold
Electric Guest
Haunted House EP available now
June 2
The Haunted House EP is a
characteristically uncompromising return
from Aussie electro duo Knife Party, the
post-Pendulum project of Rob Swire and
Gareth McGrillen, whose previous monster
Bonfire will be familiar to all, not least from
the opening sequence of American TV
drama Breaking Bad. EDM Death Machine
is a dizzying headswim of a track, wildly
changing lanes between dubstep, bass and
electro, even finding time midway through
for a brief excursion into old skool rave.
A former Beatport no. 1 and Zane Lowe
Hottest Record, specialist radio support
has been fittingly extensive, as is their
summer touring schedule, which ranges
from Creamfields to Bestival and Reading/
Leeds. Interestingly the Haunted house EP
is being made available for purchase using
the decentralised digital currency Bitcoin,
an appropriately experimental approach
from Knife Party to finding new fans.
This Head I Hold, a blissfully souled-out pop
record by LA duo Electric Guest, has been
bobbing about in the warmer waters of the
digital music ecosystem for some time, and
now receives a UK re-release to support the
deluxe repackaging of their album Mondo,
out next week. Already a hit in France and the
US, the track has pulled in nearly 5m views
across two separate videos, recently receiving
an unlikely boost in the shape of a Twitter
endorsement from actress Emma Watson. A
solid remix package has provided good fodder
for Radio 1’s specialists including Annie Mac
and Zane Lowe, while Sara Cox gave the
original a first daytime spin last week. The deft
hand of producer Danger Mouse is plain to
hear, lending a contemporary, radio-friendly
edge to the pair’s more traditionally rooted R&B
inflections. Raised respectively on west coast
punk and Bay Area hip-hop, Matthew Compton
and Asa Taccone might seem like an odd
couple, but then so did Gnarls Barkley.
Earstorm Records
Hear more from our featured artists on Deezer
Because / Warner Bros
Big Red Dragon
Little Green Cars
Glassnote / Island
June 10
Among the standout acts at The Great Escape
last week were Little Green Cars, whose
polished performances to packed houses at the
Island Life and Vevo stages saw the band really
building a head of steam. Big Red Dragon, the
third single from debut album Absolute Zero
(which debuted at No. 1 in their native Ireland
last week, keeping Vampire Weekend off the
top spot) really seems to be connecting. Video
views have passed 250k in just three weeks the same level as previous singleHarper Lee
managed in three months - and early radio
and TV pickup have been broad, from Phil &
Alice and Sara Cox at Radio 1 to Xfm, 6Music,
Absolute and MTV Rocks. Press and online
support likewise remain strong, with features in
the Sunday Times, Artrocker and the Evening
Standard to name a few. Little Green Cars feel
like a band on the cusp.
See page overleaf for all contact details
9
records of the week: contact details
Coasts
Electric Guest
LabelAvailable
PublishingAvailable
Online
Chris Fraser
Theo PR
+44 (0)20 3371 1722
Press
Daniel Theo
Theo PR
+44 (0)20 3371 1722
TVAvailable
RadioDavid Winterburn DWPR
+44 (0)7733 334520
Live Liam KeightlyITB
+44 (0)20 7637 6979
LegalPaul LennonStatham Gill Davies +44 (0)20 7317 3210
Management
Carl Hitchborn
Tidal Management +44 (0)7852 963709
Label
Toby Baker
Warner Bros
Publishing
Because Editions / Sweet Science /
Universal Music Publishing
Online
Caz BeashelInside / Out
PressAndy Prevezer
Warner Bros
TV Juliet Read
Warner Bros
RadioJames Passmore Plugged In
Live Natasha BentAgency Group
LegalNicky SteinClintons
Management
Amy SchmalzMontone
Little Green Cars
Label
Guillermo RamosIsland
Publishing
Mary Ann Slim
BMG Rights Management (Ireland)
Radio
Claire Collins /
Natalie JenningsScream Promotions
Online
Louisa WorskettMBC PR
Press
Richard Dawes /
Rowan WilkinsonDawbell
Live
Lucy Dickins /
James SimmonsITB
TV Tony Fletcher /
Andrea EdmondsonIsland
Management
Daniel Ryan
Fenech-Soler
Label
Racheal Edwards Warner Bros
Online
Lorraine Long
Charm Factory
Press
Katherine Bawden Warner Bros
TV
Juliet Read
Warner Bros
Radio
Christian NockallYour Army
Management
Amul Batra
Fwinki Music
Knife Party
Label
Jennifer Ivory
Warner Bros
Publishing
Daniel Lloyd-JonesSony/ATV
Online
Rosie Foster
JHO Management /
James Mack
Listen Up
PressJames Mack
Listen Up
TV Tom Dark
Warner Bros
RadioLuke Neville
Listen Up
Live Obi AsikaEcho Location Talent (UK & ROW)
Denise MelansonAM Only (USA)
LegalSonia DiwanSound Advice
Management
Jho Oakley
JHO Management
10
covers
business
The covers of the current
music magazines
£ Sony has said that it will
consider a proposal from
activist investor Daniel
Loeb that the group should
sell off 15-20% of its music
and movies business.
(Register, FT p26,
Independent p58, Standard
p44, Express p63) The
proposal suggests Sony
use the money raised
to strengthen its longstruggling consumer
electronics operations.
£ Urturn, the London-
based ‘social expressions
platform’, has announced
a $13.4 million Series
A funding round.
(TechCrunch, Independent
p62) Music artists have
signed up as a new way to
connect with their fans.
£ CueSongs, the music
licensing hub for online and
digital media, is offering
its roster of established
artists to music licensing
and technology company
Audiosocket’s customers
which include Vimeo,
Associated Press and
WPP. (RotD)
£ Guardian Media Group
£ Prince is to release music
£ Global Radio is counting
£ Morgan Stanley claims that
has swung back into the
black in the last year,
helped by the £70 million
sale of its radio assets.
(Standard p47)
the cost of its £70 million
takeover of the company
behind the Real and
Smooth networks, after the
Competition Commission
ruled that it must sell
off eight stations across
Britain. (Times p34,
Telegraph B3, Radio Today,
Guardian)
£ Universal Music Group
has appointed Rob Wells
to its Executive Board.
Wells is UMG’s current
President of Global Digital
Business. (Billboard)
£ Administrators have been
called in to deal with the
debt of Blueworld Ltd.
(Sun p25) The company
runs the affairs of boy band
Blue who are in the middle
of a comeback tour and are
said to be surprised by the
move.
by new artists, as well as
his own recordings and
other produced material,
by utilising Kobalt’s label
services. (RotD, Billboard)
YouTube’s revenues will
reach $4bn in 2013, while
its operating income will be
around $711m. (TubeFilter)
£ HMV’s media planning
and buying account has
been handed to the7stars.
(TheDrum)
£ The Mute group of
companies has appointed
Shirin Foroutan as Global
Managing Director of the
Mute group and Dick
O’Dell joins as Head of
Artist Management. (RotD)
£ Artist and songwriter
£ Universal Music UK’s
Group Sales Director
Adam Corke has been
promoted to a new role
as Managing Director
of UMTV, reporting to
All Around The World
founders Cris Nuttall
and Matt Cadman who
become Presidents of the
division. (RotD)
£ Warner/Chappell Music
has signed a deal for
portions of Lionsgate’s
music library and setting
up a co-publishing
partnership with the film
and television producer
for other works. (Billboard)
£ BMG has concluded
the acquisition of Virgin
Music and Famous
UK music publishing
catalogues. (RotD)
Per Gessle of Roxette
fame has partnered with
Swedish independent
Cosmos Music Group,
joining as co-owner and
board member. (RotD)
11
tv/radio
gigs
Highlights for the coming week
Saturday TV
19.00 VINTAGE
TV
Needle Time –
Featuring Ron
Sexsmith
21.20 BBC2
David Bowie –
Five Years –
Documentary
showcasing the
career of David
Bowie
19.00 BBC3
Radio 1’s Big
Weekend – Greg
James and Alice
Levine introduce
coverage of the
festival from
Londonderry
22.30 BBC4
Ultimate Number
1s at the BBC
– Featuring
performances
from The Bee
Gees and Adele
23.30 BBC4
Top Of The Pops:
1978 – With
Blondie, Boney M
and Ian Dury
00.10 BBC4
Chas & Dave:
Last Orders –
Documentary
following the
duo before their
last live
performance.
Saturday
Radio
10.00 Radio 1
Radio 1’s Big
Weekend –
Coverage of the
festival from
Londonderry
15.00 6 Music
Gilles Peterson
– With Dubstep
producer Swindle
21.00 6 Music
The Tom
Robinson Show
– With Bella
Union founder
and ex-Cocteau
Twins member
Simon Raymonde
Sunday TV
19.00 BBC3
Radio 1’s Big
Weekend –
Further coverage
of the festival
from
Londonderry.
11.05 BBC4
ARENA: Sonny
Rollins ’74 –
Rescued! – A
performance
from the Jazz
musician at
Ronnie Scotts
Sunday Radio
07.00 6 Music
Mary Anne
Hobbs – With
Patti Smith
10.00 Radio 1
Radio 1’s Big
Weekend –
Further live
coverage of the
festival.
13.00 6 Music
Huey Morgan
– With Valerie
June
Recommended London gigs
23.55 BBC 4
Legends – A
celebration of the
life and career of
Roy Orbison
Tuesday Radio
10.00 6 Music
Lauren Laverne
– With a set from
Phoenix
19.00 6 Music
Marc Riley –
Featuring Art
Brut
Monday TV
22.00 ITV
The Story Of Now
– Documentary
covering the
history of the Now Wednesday TV
18.00 Sky Arts 1
compilation
Spectacle: Elvis
albums
Costello – Music
Monday Radio
and chat hosted
by Elvis Costello.
13.00 6 Music
Mark Radcliffe & 22.00 BBC 2
Stuart Maconie
Later...with Jools
– Gary Numan
Holland –
discusses his
Featuring Beady
new album
Eye, Miguel,
Deap Vally, OMD
22.00 Radio 2
The Freewheelin’ and KT Tunstall.
Bob Dylan – a
Wednesday
Folk Tribute
Radio
Tuesday TV
19.00 6 Music
Marc Riley – New
20.00 Sky Arts 1
Yorker Manie
The Basement –
Stern performs
Radiohead Live
in session from
22.00 Radio 2
2007
The People’s
Songs – Stuart
22.00 VINTAGE
Maconie
TV
continues his
Needle Time –
Featuring Sandie series looking
at some of the
Shaw
most popular
songs in pop
0.00 Radio 1
Huw Stephens –
Huw presents
highlights from
the BBC
Introducing stage
at Radio 1’s Big
Weekend
Thursday TV
23.00 Sky Arts 1
Elvis Costello
and Friends –
With Billie Jo
Armstrong and
Death Cab For
Cutie
Thursday
Radio
9.30 BBC Radio 2
Claudia
Winkelman –
featuring KT
Tunstall
13.00 BBC 6
Music
Stuart Maconie
– Director Shane
Meadows
discusses his
film about The
Stone Roses
19.00 BBC 6
Music
Marc Riley – A
session by
Hookworms
21.00 Radio 1
In New DJs We
Trust – Featuring
Simon Patterson,
Brodinski,
Jackmaster and
Salva
Friday TV
06.00 ITV
Daybreak – With
Boyband Union J
21.00 BBC 4
Otis Redding:
Soul Ambassador
– Profile of the
Soul singer’s
career and life.
22.00 Channel 4
Alan Carr: Chatty
Man – Featuring
Demi Lovato
23.05 BBC 2
Later...With Jools
Holland –
Extended version
of Wednesday
nights broadcast
Friday Radio
10.00 6 Music
Lauren Laverne
– Featuring
songs from
Laura Marling
22.00 6 Music
6Mix – Featuring
TheDOT (Mike
Skinner and Rob
Harvey)
Friday
£ Club NME present: In the Valley Below,
Koko NW1
£ The Mispers, The Lexington N1
Monday
£ Public Service Broadcasting,
Village Underground EC2
£ Heart-Ships, Sebright Arms E2
£ Dark Bells, Hoxton bar & Kitchen N1
Tuesday
£ Parallel Lines present:
Daughn Gibson, Birthdays N16
£ Haim, Heaven WC2
£ White Heat Presents: Slow Magic
+ Giraffage + Mister Lies,
Madam Jo Jo’s
£ Thumpers, Hoxton bar & Kitchen N1
Wednesday
£ Night Engine, XOYO EC2
£ San Zhi + IYES + Jake Heart,
Shacklewell Arms E8
£ Eat Your Own Ears present:
Cloud Boat, The Lexington N1
£ Sean Nicholas Savage,
Servant Jazz Quarters N16
Thursday
£ Ja Ja Ja present: Rangleklods
+ Alfred Hall + Shine 2009,
The Lexington N1
£ Jacob Banks, Bush Hall W12
£ Ghostpoet, Village Underground EC2
£ Deaf Club, The Victoria E8
12
news
In the news
Pupils will be taught at a
free school run by Sir Paul
McCartney’s Liverpool
Institute for Performing
Arts, under a radical
expansion of one of the
Coalition’s flagship education
reforms. (Telegraph, Evening
Standard) In a further
announcement, Will Kennard
of Chase & Status will help to
lead the opening of the East
London Academy of Music
for 16- to 19-year-olds. Its
governing body will include
Sir Nick Williams, the former
principal of the BRIT School
New tax records reveal that
the RIAA has made heavy
employee cuts after revenue
dropped to a new low.
(TorrentFreak)
US charts: Vampire
Weekend debut at the top
of the Billboard 200, selling
134,000. (Billboard)
93 Feet East is to reopen
five months after a police
raid led to the venue having
its licence revoked by Tower
Hamlets Council. There were
allegations the east London
club had not done enough to
combat illegal substances on
the premises.
Eurovision: Denmark’s
Emmelie de Forest won with
Only Teardrops. The UK
came 19th with Bonnie
Tyler’s Believe In Me.
(Sunday Times, Telegraph,
Observer, IoS, Mail p21,
Star p15, Guardian p4,
Independent p23)
Proms fans call for a
crackdown on touts as Ł12
seats fetch Ł500 (Observer)
Alt-J debut technology to
stop people recording gigs
on their phones. (Guardian)
Video app Soundhalo
delivers filmed footage of
each song to a cloud for
downloading immediately
after it is performed live.
Abba’s Gold: Greatest Hits
has surpassed lifetime sales
of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band
to become the UK’s second
biggest selling album of all
time. (OCC)
More than 4.4 billion streams
were served since the
Official Streaming Chart
was launched a year ago,
with the Top 100 most
streamed tracks accounting
for 9.7% of that total. The
Official Charts Company has
revealed the most streamed
song was ‹We Are Young’ by
Fun ft Janelle Monae.
(OCC, BBC)
Sales chart: Daft Punk
remain top of the Official
Singles Chart, with Get
Lucky now the second
biggest selling single of the
year. Demi Lovato, Wretch
32 and Sub Focus debut in
the ten. Rod Stewart debuts
at the top of the Album chart,
holding off Gabrielle Aplin
and Vampire Weekend.
(BBC, OCC, Express p3, Mail
p9, Star p3, Telegraph p1,
Times p14, Sun p3)
Daft Punk’s album was
available to download free on
iTunes for a while last week,
as users found the URL the
stream was hosted on. (9to5)
Ray Manzarek, keyboard
player and founder member
of The Doors, dies aged
74 in Germany after a long
battle with cancer. (Guardian
p20, Billboard, BBC, Times
p5,Express p6, Metro p18,
Sun, Mirror)
Taylor Swift was the biggest
single winner at the event
The 2013 Billboard Music
Awards, winning eight.
The event also saw One
Direction win three artist
awards forNew Artist, Top
Group and Top Pop Artist.
Many other awards were
handed out including for
Adele and Mumford & Sons.
(Billboard)
Nordoff Robbins is asking
members of the public to
help choose the winner of
their Best Live Act Award at
this year’s O2 Silver Clef
Awards. (RotD)
Michael Jackson’s estate
has made more money
through ticket sales in the
four years since his death
than he made during his
lifetime. (Independent p11)
Among the winners at the
Ivor Novello Awards were
Pelican by The Maccabees
(Best Contemporary Song),
Next to Me by Emeli Sande
(PRS for Music Most
Performed Work and Best
Song Musically and Lyrically),
Marc Almond (Inspiration
Award), An Awesome Wave
by Alt-J (Album Award),
Justin Hayward (PRS for
Music Award for Outstanding
Achievement), Gavin
Rossdale (International
Achievement), Calvin Harris
(Songwriter of the Year),
Noel Gallagher (Outstanding
Song Collection), Randy
Newman (PRS for Music
SpecialInternational Award).
(RotD, Guardian p23,
Independent p2, BBC,
Metro p19, Telegraph p17)
Songkick’s Detour, a service
allowing fans to club together
to pay bands to play gigs
at their request, has been
launched following a beta
launch. (BBC)
Entries are now open for the
AIM Independent Music
Awards. (RotD, AIM)
13
6am
tweets
The least banal stories
from the week’s pop press
Tweets we liked
Lionel Richie has been
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announced as the final
headliner at this summer’s
Hyde Park Music Festival.
(Standard p13)
Handwritten John Lennon
}
lyrics to songs such as
Strawberry Fields Forever,
as well as letters from the
former Beatles star, have been
donated to the British Library
by Beatles biographer Hunter
Davies. (Times, Telegraph
BBC)
avid Bowie has paid tribute
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to his bassist Trevor Boulder,
saying he was a wonderful
musician but also a wonderful
person. (Star p23)
Sharon Osborne will return to
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The X-Factor as a judge this
year to replace Tulisa. (Star
p13, Express p25)
Beyoncé’s new track Grown
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Woman has leaked online, on
the same day that The-Dream
unveils new track Turnt that
features the singer along with
rapper 2 Chainz. (Metro)
Elton John has announced
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that he will play the new British
Summer Time Festival in
Hyde Park this year. (Standard,
Metro)
Daft Punk’s chart-topper
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Get Lucky has become the
first song to top Spotify’s new
streaming chart. (Metro)
ichael Jackson’s estate has
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earned £400m since his death.
(Star p3)
eorge Michael fell out of a
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car travelling at 70mph on the
M1 while trying to close a door
that was not shut properly.
(Times p 11, Sun p1,5)
Singer and house producer
}
Romanthony, whose vocal
appeared on Daft Punk’s ‘One
More Time’, has died. (NME,
5Chicago)
@MichaelAHann
(Michael Hann, Guardian)
Not sold on Merchandise. Do
you see what I did there?
@bellaunion (label)
why would you steal John
Grant’s laptop from the stage
last night? why would you do
that? I have such contempt
for you it keeps me awake.
contact us
Send your music
and news to:
@laurasnapes (Pitchfork)
I genuinely wonder how many
people subscribe to that
Guardian/Rough Trade thing.
I can hardly think of what
intersection of people would
want it.
@andymalt (CMU)
An advert on my phone tried
to access my calendar. This
had better not be a thing now.
@leethommo
(Lee Thompson, BT Vision)
Insane/suicidal UK single
release schedule for Sun
30 June: Icona Pop, John
Newman, Saturdays, Russ
Chimes, Lucy Spraggan.
Who’ll move??
@JimGellatly
Not seen NME review of the
@tribesband album, but proclaimation of “f*** NME” at gig
would suggest it wasn’t great.
Band sounding fab tho.
@andymalt (CMU)
I just downloaded my Twitter
archive. I’d forgotten that
Bjork used to tweet a hello to
everyone who followed her.
Different times
@timbinns (New State)
Current estimate is dance
music is worth $4.5bn worldwide
@jemimakiss (Guardian)
Oh yes - I’m now Head of
Tech. Announced today. Very
exciting. The to-do list is
MASSIVE!
@NiallMDoherty (Q)
It has taken quite a few
listens, like all good albums
should, but I think I am coming round to the new Fuck
Buttons album being brilliant.
@OohBrilliant
(James Pennycate,
Ooh Brilliant)
So glad another of my rants
ended up in the ROTD mag.
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media watch
Digital
BMW is to offer access to
}
streaming music service
Rara in its new Series 5 cars.
(Register, RotD, Billboard) The
subscription deal includes 3G
access to the music.
Pandora is extending its
}
partnership with Facebook
through a new Timeline app
which will allow users to share
what they’re listening to on the
social network. (NextWeb)
andora has a new station
} P
called Pandora Premieres,
which will be updated weekly
with forthcoming albums.
Listeners will be able to “choose
to hear any track on the
featured album, in any order
and as many times as they’d
like” until it’s removed from
the station. Laura Marling’s
new album debuts today.
(PRNewswire)
Last.fm has teamed up
}
with Muzu.tv to bring over
90,000 music videos to the
Web version of its Pandorastyle Internet radio service.
(NextWeb)
lackBerry has found that
} B
music is still a driving force in
digital sales, accounting for 20
per cent of all BlackBerry World
purchases. (TrustedReviews)
Deezer has announced its first
}
app for Xbox 360, giving users
a new way to discover and
listen to music. (NextWeb)
Twitter’s #Music has fallen
}
out of iOS’s top 100 free music
apps. Can it survive? (Verge)
Apple, which has been aiming
}
for a summer rollout of a
streaming music service, is said
to have hit a negotiating snag
with Sony Music over some of
the features that it is building
into its product. Specifically,
how much Apple would pay for
songs that people listen to a
fraction of and then skip. (CNet)
Xbox Live is to host a new
}
interactive TV project called
The Music Room. To be hosted
by Laura Jackson, the first
show is due on May 29 will
feature formerLibertines cofrontman Carl Barat,
plus Everything Everything,
and Swim Deep who will be
performing on the show. (Edge)
potify has launched the
} S
Spotify Charts, providing weekly
updates of the most-streamed
and most-viral songs. (RotD) look over the
} A
recent Merlin survey on
streaming and how it’s working
for indies and artists. (Register)
Bloom.fm is a mobile-first
}
music streaming service that’s
playing to a different tune.
(TechCrunch)
Several of Grooveshark’s
}
(former) employees have
agreed to a “consent judgment”
which prohibits them from
infringing the major labels’
copyrights or working with
similar services in future. No
settlement has been reached
with the parent company yet,
but the recent developments
cast doubt over Grooveshark’s
future. (TorrentFreak) Radio, Television,
Publishing and PR
The BBC has developed an
}
experimental piece of hardware
called the Perceptive Radio,
that adjusts the content it plays
based on a wide range of circumstances, such as location,
time, a user’s proximity to the
device and background noise
in the environment in which it’s
being used. (NextWeb)
adio 4: Radio 1’s Ben Coo} R
per on whether the drive for a
younger audience means losing
loyal listeners? (BBC - from
2.30min) He talks of the 100m
views on the YouTube channel
and R1 DJs having 15m followers on Twitter.
loom.fm, the £1 a month
} B
mobile music service, has
added VoiceOver support,
making the app’s interface
and features accessible to
vision-impaired users. It has
also introduced high quality
audio options for discerning
audiophiles. (RotD)
Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper
}
Spotify is launching an update
}
Chris Evans has committed
}
to its desktop application that
displays play-counts for popular
tracks on artists’ profiles.
(MusicAlly)
is to address commercial radio
leaders at the RadioCentre’s
annual conference. (RadioToday, RadioCentre)
to hosting the Sony Radio
Academy Awards for the next
two years. (RadioToday)
An analysis of Radio 1’s
}
listeners has found that whilst
the total audience shrank last
year, the proportion of over-55s
tuning in has risen from 1.3% to
1.6%. The most common age
for a Radio 1 listener is now
24, although the average is still
pushing 30. (Independent p3)
itchfork is shunning the
} P
pageview and ad impression
arms race by aiming to attract
an audience that’s loyal
and engaged with its brand.
(Digiday)
he daily readership of the
} T
Evening Standard has hit a
new high of almost 1.7 million
according to data from the
National Readership Survey.
(Standard p2)
Clash magazine’s Digital
}
Edition for iPhone is hosting an
exclusive pre-release stream
of Tricky’s new album ‘False
Idols’. (RotD)
etal Hammer Editor in
} M
Chief, Alexander Milas is
to present the Metal Hammer Magazine Show each
weeknight on TeamRock Radio.
(RadioToday)
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chart life
Airplay data supplied by Nielsen Music Control, week ending 23rd May 2013
Sunday 26th May Robin Thicke Blurred Lines
Ke$ha Feat Will Smith Crazy Kids
Stylo G Soundbwoy
Carly Rae Jepsen Tonight I’m Getting
Over You (Digital Impact Date)
Fall Out Boy The Phoenix
Muse Panic Station
Laura Marling Master Hunter
The Strokes Tap Out
Alice In Chains Stones
Ciara Body Party (Remixes)
Glee Cast *Multiple Tracks*
Duran Duran Hungry Like The Wolf
(Steve Aoki Vs Duran Duran remix)
Say Lou Lou Julian (Digital Impact Date)
Monsta Messiah
Electric Guest This Head I Hold
SPLASHH All I Wanna Do
Majical Cloudz Childhood’s End
Deerhunter Back To The Middle
Ariana feat Pitbull Sexy People
(The Fiat Song)
Jennifer Lopez feat Pitbull Live It Up
Koreless Yugen EP
Olly Murs Dear Darlin’
Sunday 2nd June Union J Carry You
Fuse ODG Antenna
Bastille Laura Palmer (Digital Impact Date)
Olly Murs Dear Darlin’ (Digital Impact Date)
Disclosure Feat Eliza Doolittle You & Me
(Digital Impact Date)
Kodaline Love Like This (Digital Bundle)
Muse Panic Station
Queens Of The Stone Age My God Is The Sun
3OH!3 Back To Life
Phillip Phillips Home
Afrojack Feat Chris Brown As Your Friend
The Aston Shuffle Sunrise (Won’t Get Lost)
Misty Miller Next To You EP
Frightened Rabbit Late March, Death March
Matt Corby Title TBC
The Good Natured Skeleton
Ghost BC Year Zero
Classified Feat David Myles Inner Ninja
Camera Obscura Do It Again
Sunday 9th June Wiley Feat Angel & Tinchy Stryder Lights On
Arash Feat Sean Paul She Makes Me Go
Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso Roar
Mark Owen Stars
Bridgit Mendler Hurricane
KT Tunstall Feel It All
Depeche Mode Soothe Away My Soul
(Digital Bundle)
Tegan & Sara I Was A Fool
Bon Jovi What About Now (Digital Impact Date)
Alicia Keys New Day (Digital Impact Date)
Bring Me The Horizon Go To Hell,
For Heavens’ Sake (Digital Impact Date)
Andrew Stockdale Long Way To Go
Little Green Cars Big Red Dragon
Chasing Grace Dinner Will Be Served EP
Houndmouth On The Road
Iceage Wounded Hearts
Stornoway The Bigger Picture
Sunday 16th June C2C Down The Road
Mac Miller TBC
Nervo Hold On
Jason Derulo The Other Side
Bruno Mars Treasure (Digital Impact Date)
The Family Rain Pushing It
(Digital Impact Date)
Lissie Shameless (Digital Impact Date)
Josh Record War EP
Nick Mulvey Fever To The Form
Deap Vally Baby I Call Hell
British Sea Power Loving Animals
Peace Lovesick (Digital Bundle)
Everything Everything Don’t Try
(Digital Impact Date)
Dawes From The Right Angle
Sigur Ros Isjaki
Twenty One Pilots Migraine
Tom Odell Another Love (Digital Bundle)
John Legend feat Rick Ross Who Do We Think We Are
Empire Of The Sun Alive (Digital Impact Date)
Woodkid feat Angel Haze I Love You
Parachute Youth Can’t Get Better Than This
Jamie Isaac Softly Draining Seas
Avril Lavigne Here’s To Never Growing Up
Sunday 23rd June Bo Bruce Feat Danny O’Donahue Alive (Digital Impact Date)
The Wanted Walk Like Rihanna
Jamie Isaac Softly Draining Seas
Rascals Title TBC
MAPS A.M.A
Watch The Duck Poppin Off
Robert DeLong Global Concepts
Connor Youngblood Vegas
Kurt Vile Never Run Away
Mariah Carey Feat Miguel #Beautiful
Biffy Clyro Opposite
Misty Miller Happy
RDGLDGRN Lootin’ In London
Post War Years Be Someone
Mikill Pane Chairman Of The Bored
(Digital Impact date)
Mumford & Sons Babel
Michael Buble Close Your Eyes
Avril Lavigne Here’s To Never Growing Up
Chloe Howl No Strings
Peace Lovesick
Sunday 30th June Icona Pop Feat Charli XCX I Love It
Lucy Spraggan Lighthouse
AlunaGeorge Lost & Found
John Newman Love Me Again
Chase & Status Feat Louis M^ttrs Lost & Not Found
Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash Feat
John Martin Reload
Palma Violets Best Of Friends
Katy B What Love Is Made Of
Roll Deep Feat Wiley All Or Nothing
(Digital Bundle)
Taylor Swift feat Ed Sheeran Everything
Has Changed (Digital Impact Date)
K Koke Feat Bridget Kelly My Time
Hurts Somebody To Die For (Digital Bundle)
Russ Chimes Turn Me Out
Charlene Soraia Broken
Michael Buble Close Your Eyes
Indiana Smoking Gun
Fenech Soler Magnetic
Le Youth C.O.O.L (Digital Bundle)
Iggy Azalea Bounce
The Saturdays Gentleman
Clean Bandit TBC
Charlene Soraia Broken
Half Moon Run Call Me In The Afternoon
Sunday 7th July Katy B What Love Is Made Of (Digital Bundle)
Rihanna Feat David Guetta Right Now
(Digital Impact Date)
Ke$ha feat Will Smith Crazy Kids
(Digital Bundle)
Burns Limitless
The Strypes Hometown Girls
(Digital Impact Date)
The XX Fiction
Frank Ocean Sweet Life
Watch The Duck Anatidaephobia EP
Colour The Atlas EP2
MO Waste Of Time
Mayer Hawthorne feat Jessie Ware Fav
Kat Dahlia Gangsta (Digital Bundle)
Rudimental TBC (Digital Impact Date)
Lune Leave The World Behind
(Digital Impact Date)
Noah & The Whale All Through The Night
Ella Eyre Title TBC
Angel Victory
Breach Jack
Jacques Green On Your Side
CHVRCHES Gun
Robert DeLong TBC
Sunday 21st July Amplify Dot Feat Busta Rhymes I’m Good
Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso Roar
(Digital Impact Date)
Nina Nesbitt What In The World
Lorde Tennis Court
Frank Ocean Sweet Life (Digital Impact Date)
Red Hot Chili Peppers This Is
The Kitt/Brave From Afar
Red Hot Chili Peppers Catch My Death/
How It Ends
Red Hot Chili Peppers Hanalei/OpenClose
Clean Bandit Title TBC
Watch The Duck Anatidaephobia EP
Hot Natured Title TBC
Youngblood Hawke We Come Running
Sunday 28th July Professor Green Title TBC
Josh Record War EP
Don Diablo feat Kelis & Alex Clare GIVE It All (Digital Bundle)
Jamie Cullum Title TBC
Sunday 14th July A*M*E Heartless (Digital Bundle)
Ariana Grande Feat Mac Miller The Way
(Digital Impact Date)
Scouting For Girls Millionaire (Digital Bundle)
Jonas Brothers Pom Poms
Selena Gomez Come & Get It
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chart life
Official airplay chart
Amazon pre-release albums
Period 5 to 8 November
TWLW points
11Daft Punk Get Lucky 3238
24Passenger Let Her Go 2220
33Pink Feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me A Reason 2454
42Justin Timberlake Mirrors2317
59Olly Murs Dear Darlin’ 1156
68Armin Van Buuren Feat Trevor Guthrie This Is What It Feels Like 1000
77Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us
870
85Rudimental Waiting All Night 1176
910
Calvin Harris Feat Ellie Goulding I Need Your Love 1399
1028The Wanted Walks Like Rihanna 1234
ilr
TWLW points
11Daft Punk Feat Pharrell Williams Get Lucky 3026
23Pink Feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me A Reason 2323
32Justin Timberlake Mirrors2309
45Passenger Let Her Go 2104
54Michael Buble It’s A Beautiful Day 1666
66Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man 1531
78Duke Dumont Feat A*M*E Need U (100%) 1482
87Olly Murs Army Of Two 1454
913
Stooshe Slip1398
1012Calvin Harris Feat Ellie Goulding I Need Your Love 1396
Music TV Chart UK
TWLW
plays
11Will.I.Am Feat Justin Bieber #thatPOWER425
22Daft Punk Feat Pharrell Williams Get Lucky416
33Rudimental Waiting All Night
389
44Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us 357
55Calvin Harris feat Ellie Goulding I Need Your Love
348
66David Guetta Feat Ne-Yo & Akon Play Hard 322
77Nelly Hey Porsche
318
811
Demi Lovato Heart Attack
286
99Pink Feat Nate Ruess Just Give Me A Reason
282
108 Olly Murs Dear Darlin
276
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Queens Of The Stone Age Like Clockwork
Laura Marling Once I Was An Eagle
Black Sabbath 13
Black Star Riders All Hell Breaks Loose
Alice In Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Paul McCartney & Wings Wings Over America
Various Artists Now Thats What I Call 30 Years
Hans Zimmer Man Of Steel OST
Harry Nilsson The RCA Albums Collection
Disclosure Settle
Shazam New Release Chart USA
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Mariah Carey #Beautiful
Jennifer Lopez Live It Up
Ke$ha Crazy Kids
Hunter Hayes I Want Crazy
Kelly Clarkson People Like Us
Hustle Gang Memories Back Then
Billy Currington Hey Girl
Marc Anthony Vivir Mi Vida
Thomas Rhett It Goes Like This
Lana Del Ray Young & Beautiful
Shazam New Release Chart UK
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Robin Thicke Blurred Lines
Disclosure You & Me
Fuse ODG Antenna
Olly Murs Dear Darlin’
Stylo G Soundbwoy
Mariah Carey #Beautiful
Icona Pop I Love It
J.Cole Power Trip
Dizzee Rascal Goin’ Crazy
Guardian – New Band Of The Day
Source: music.guardian.co.uk/newbands
Thrusday
Friday Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Phreeda Sharp
Joel Compass
Joell Compass
Breakbot
Fuse ODG
Popjustice big song
source: www.popjustice.com
Tuesday
radio 1
TWLW
radio 1 DJ PICKS
plays points
113
Bastille Laura Palmer
12 7,639
212
Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith La La La16 7,693
311
Vampire Weekend Diane Young
13 7,765
417
Demi Lovato Heart Attack
11 6,693
510
Stylo G Soundbwoy
128,156
69Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us
13 8,240
77Thirty Seconds To Mars Up In The Air 14 8,643
821
Kodaline Love Like This
7 5,892
922
Fuse ODG Antenna
85,875
106 Wretch 32 feat Shakka Blackout 158,651
radio 2
TWLW
plays points
12Daft Punk feat Pharrell Williams Get Lucky
10 15,642
27Passenger Let Her Go
8 8,924
311
Agnetha Faltskog When You Really Loved Someone
6 7,536
414
Olly Murs Dear Darlin’
5 6,325
515
Black Star Riders Bound For Glory
4 5,877
618
Fleetwood Mac Sad Angel
4 5,273
721
Depeche Mode Soothe My Soul
5 4,613
828
Rod Stewart She Makes Me Happy
2 3,446
925
Tom Odell Another Love
2 3,708
1023Nell Bryden Echoes
44,157
Radio
Radio 22 record
Record of
of the
the week
Week
Michael Buble Close Your Eyes
Radio
of the
the Week
week
Radio 22 record
album of
Jamie Cullum Momentum
Radio 2 playlist additions
Leanne Mitchell PrideA List
Bruno Mars Treasure
B List
Emmelie DeForrest Only Teardrops
B List
Josh Osho Freewheel
B List
Robin Thicke Blurred Lines feat T.I & Pharrell
B List
The Band Perry Done
B List
David Bowie The Next Day
C List
Mark Owen Stars
C List
Travis Where You Stand
C List
Nick Grimshaw
John Newman Love Me Again
Zane Lowe
Temples Colour To Life
Greg James
Robin Thicke Blurred Lines (feat T.I & Pharrell)
Dev
RDGLDGRN Million Fans
Scott Mills
Bruno Mars Treasure
Phil & Alice
Action Bronson Compliments To The Chef
Sara Cox
Chase & Status Lost & Not Found (feat Louis M^ttrs)
Radio 1 playlist additions
Biffy Clyro Opposite
C List
Case & Status Lost & Not Found (feat Louis M^ttrs) C List
Everything Everything Don’t Try
C List
Frank Turner The Way i Tend To Be
C List
Jason Derulo The Other Side
C List
Knife Party Edm Death Machine
C List
Mallory Knox Hello
C List
Tom Odell Another Love
C List
Heaven’s Basement Fire FireINMWT List
Jagwar Ma Man I NeedINMWT List
John Newman Love Me AgainINMWT List
Pierce The Veil King For A DayINMWT List
Little Bear Few And Far BetweenIntroducing
Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record
In The World
Thursday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Drenge Backwaters
The Weeknd Kiss Land
Lewis Watson Calling
Half Moon Run Call Me In The Afternoon
Amazing Radio Chart
1
2
3
4
5
The Child Of Lov Fly
Ghostpoet Meltdown
Makthaverskan Asleep
SOHN Bloodflows
Blondfire Hide and Seek
Pet Shop Boys Vocal
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Shazam Beatport
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Daft Punk feat Pharrell Williams Get Lucky
David Guetta feat Ne-Yo & Akon Play Hard
Calvin Harris feat Ellie Goulding I Need Your Love
Major Lazer feat Busy Signal Watch Out For This
Armin Van Buuren feat Trevor Guthrie This Is What It Feels Like
Zedd feat Foxes Clarity
Avicii Vs Nicky Romero I Could Be The One
Calvin Harris feat Florence Welch Sweet Nothing
Swedish House Mafia feat John Martin Don’t You Worry Child
Wankelmut & Emma Louise My Head Is A Jungle
Krewella Alie
Rudimental feat Ella Eyre Waiting All Night
Bingo Players feat Far East Movement Get Up
Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash, John Martin
Reload
Chris Malinchak So Good To Me
Afrojack feat Chris Brown As Your Friend
Calvin Harris feat Tinie Tempah Drinking From The Bottle
Hardwell feat Amba Shepherd Apolo
TJR Ode To Oi
Duke Dumont feat A*M*E Need U
Hype Machine Top 5 Artists
http://hypem.com/
1
2
3
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Daft Punk
Smith Westerns
Jacques Greene
Say Lou Lou
Pure Bathing Culture
deezer dance/electro top 10
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Daft Punk Get Lucky
Pink Just Give Me a Reason
Demi Lovato Heart Attack
Rudimental Waiting All Night (feat Ella Eyre)
Justin Timberlake Mirrors
Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man
The Saturdays What About Us
Calvin Harris feat Ellie Goulding I Need Your Love
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us
(feat Ray Dalton)
Bastille Pompeii
iTunes Music Store top songs
1 Naughty Boy La La La (feat Sam Smith)
2Passenger Let Her Go
3 Daft Punk Get Lucky (Radio Edit)
(feat Pharrell Williams)
4 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us Down (feat Ryan Lewis)
5 2 Chainz We Own It (Fast & Furious) (feat Wiz Khalifa)
6 Daft Punk Get Lucky (feat Pharrell Williams)
7Rudimental Waiting All Night (feat Ella Eyre)
8 Armin Van Buuren This Is What It Feels Like
(feat Trevor Guthrie)
9 Davi Guetta Play Hard (feat Ne-Yo & Akon)
10 Demi Lovato Heart Attack
Radio
record Of
of The
the Week
week
itunes2 Single
Ms Mr Hurricane
iTunes Music Store – germany
1 Emmelie de Forest Only Teardrops
2 Robin Thicke Blurred Lines (feat T.I & Pharrell)
3 Capital Cities Safe and Sound
4 Daft Punk Get Lucky (Radio Edit)
(feat Pharrell Williams)
5 Justin Timberlake Mirrors
6 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us
(feat Ray Dalton)
7 James Arthur Impossible
8 Xavier Naidoo Bei Meiner Seele
9 Daft Punk Get Lucky (feat Pharrell Williams)
10 Frida Gold Liebe ist meine Rebellion
iTunes Music Store – new zealand
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Robin Thicke Blurred Lines (feat T.I & Pharrell)
Birdy Skinny Love
Passenger Let Her Go
Daft Punk Get Lucky (feat Pharrell Williams)
Imagine Dragons Radioactive
Lorde Royals
Pitbull Feel This Moment (feat Christina Aguilera)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Can’t Hold Us
(feat Ray Dalton)
Zach Sobiech Clouds
Daft Punk Get Lucky (Radio Edit)
(feat Pharrell Williams)
amazing radio
A List Bipolar Sunshine Rivers
Coasts Wallow
Denai Moore Fatigue
Eye Emma Jeidi Places
London Grammar Wasting My Young Years
Marika Hackman Bath Is Black
MT Heaven
PAPA Put Me To Work
Parks Squares and Alleys Youth
Suvi Bleeding For Your Love
THUMPERS UNKINDER (A TOUGHER
LOVE)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra From the Sun
Valerie June Wanna Be On Your Mind
Wardell Opossum
Wolf Alice Bros
B List (Kidsmoke) Take Me To The River
Beacon Bring You Back
BIG COSMOS El Palo Alto
Farao Skin
Frankie & The Heartstrings Nothing Our
Way
Fun Adults For Water
Highasakite Son of a bitch
Hookworms Radio Tokyo
Hungry Kids of Hungary Sharp Shooter
Josef Salvat Hustler
Landshapes In Limbo
Lescop La Forêt
Lumi HD Come Near
Prides Out of the Blue
RHODES Always
Seasfire Oh Lucifer
Shy Nature Deadly Sin
The Wytches Beehive Queen
Waxahatchee Coast To Coast
William Arcane Not The Only One
Young Fathers I Heard
C List All We Are Utmost Good
Antimatter People Mossy Grounds
I’lls Plans Only Drawn
IYES Glow
Jon Hopkins Open Eye Signal
Nataly Dawn Long Running Joke
Pascal Pinon Bloom
PYYRAMIDS Paper Doll
Saturday Night Gym Club Suddenly the Feelings are Ours
These Monsters When The Going Gets Weird
Twin Oaks Not An Exit (Sleep Walk Edit)
Valentiine Chucky
Wilsen Dusk
Specialist Spot Plays Benin City My Love
DjRUM Honey
Factory Dolls Run
Jamaican Queens Kids Get Away
Nia Keturah Proper Poppa
Raffertie Build Me Up
Key
Non-Mover
Move Up
New Addition
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