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Sony BMG News | Columbia Label Group Take No.1 Spot on Singles and Album Charts
The Columbia Label Group is celebrating holding the No.1 positions in both the Single and Album Charts in the UK, with The Ting Tings at No.1 on Singles and Neil Diamond at No.1 on the Albums.
That’s Not My Name is the first chart eligible single from the Ting Tings. Their new album, We Started Nothing, is also released today. The band are currently on a sold out tour of the UK and played a homecoming gig last night in Manchester to celebrate their No.1 success. They will play a sold out show at London’s Astoria this week. Another track from the album, Shut Up And Let Me Go has also been selected for the new iTunes TV Commercial which starts in the UK this week.
After over 125 million career album sales, Neil Diamond achieves his first ever UK No.1 studio album with Home Before Dark, which was produced by Rick Rubin. Neil has been in the UK for extensive promotion which has included a special concert for Radio 2, a Jonathan Ross appearance for next week, and a forthcoming ‘Audience With Neil Diamond’ on ITV1. Already confirmed as the closing headliner as this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Neil will kick off a UK tour on the 5th June at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
Columbia Managing Director Mike Smith says: “It has been incredible to tell one of the greatest living American singer songwriters on the Columbia Roster that he has his first UK No.1 album, and then to hear him in turn congratulate one of our newest signings on their chart topping single. This week is a culmination of everything we are trying to do at Columbia, reinventing legends and creating new ones.”
Sony BMG News | RCA Wins Record Company of the Year
RCA’s credentials as the leading record label of 2007 were fully endorsed last night when they won MusicWeek’s most prestigious award, Record Company of the Year. The award goes to the company which achieves the most in terms of market share, working successful album projects, and breaking new artists.
The success of RCA, headed up by Craig Logan, was down to a strong focus on A&R, yielding chart topping sales from The Hoosiers, Newton Faulkner, strong international sales from artists such as Natasha Bedingfield, and RCA’s partnership with Syco, achieving international superstardom for Leona Lewis.
While RCA is now building successful international careers for these acts, it is also focussing on the next wave of UK talent with high hopes for new acts like The Script, Sam Beaton and Ida Maria.
International acts on the RCA label also played their part with artists such Justin Timberlake, Pink, The Fray, and Britney Spears. RCA also has a strong line up of artist albums for 2008, including new albums from Usher, Will Young, Beyonce, Rod Stewart and Dido.
“This is a great achievement for Craig and his team,” says Ged Doherty, Chairman of SONY BMG Music Entertainment UK & Ireland. “Sony BMG led the industry in breaking new acts last year. We plan to do the same this year.”
“I’m thrilled that we have won this award” says Craig Logan, MD RCA Label Group, “Over the last couple of years we have built a great team. Our focus is A&R and getting the music right. We now have established a great platform for RCA to go on to even bigger and better things this year as we continue to build up our fantastic roster of artists.”
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January 3, 2009
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In a nutshell it was season 19 Episode 7, Husbands and Knives, aired Lord’S Day Nov. Eighteen 2007.
WELL Iodine told you didn’t I? It’s ALL coming together now isn’t it? Rich Person you see the subheading of my blog? Smushing together what? Movies, Comics and TV. And last night’s episode of The Simpsons combined all that stuff. It was on TV, tons of amusing book stuff, and had Jack Black from the movies (we have got the same birthday by the way). And although they didn’t make Home Renovation (another subject in my site) they did make some Homer Renovation! They even had a Simpsons version of Oprah and an African American version of Batman’s buddy Robin. What more than could you ask?
For me, the show have somehow managed to be amusing for 20 years. Keep in mind, I’ve been watching “The Simpsons” since before they were called that. Yeah, I cognize some of you saw them on the Tracey Ullman show. But I saw them before that. At life festivals. And utilizing some magic, once-in-a-lifetime expression they’ve stayed funny. They have got stayed funny! I’m not gonna acquire into a Family Guy volts Simpsons thing here. The Simpsons show is funny. You should see their lampoon of “The Thing.”
Possibly one of the oddest cameo turns I’ve ever seen on television was the casting of Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and Daniel Clowes as themselves. These cats are celebrated for the Watchmen, Maus and Ghost World. The show gave them a few muscles, but they were there in all their advanced glory.
Even the subplot of the show integrated another subject of this blog; metropolis life. Margarine desires to acquire into form and she travels to a topographic point called “LA Body Works.” Now, having lived in lanthanum for 10 years, Film Industry to be specific, I was a long clip member of the Film Industry YMCA. Before joining the Yttrium I did travel to some of those lanthanum themed “gyms,” but they weren’t that different from what Margarine encountered; so I didn’t remain long.
So for me the show was a personal favorite, but I recognize everybody might not experience that way. What’s one of your favorites?
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January 1, 2009
Global Digital Music Sales Double in 2006
The IFPI has released figures showing that digital music sales worldwide doubled in 2006, climbing to 10 per cent of the entire market for music worldwide, with a value of around US$2 million. The figures were released by the industry trade body in its 2007 Digital Music Report, which presents a rosy outlook for digital sales in the coming three years, such that digital music sales will reach a quarter of total earnings by 2010.
Despite the good news for the industry the IFPI still isn’t satisfied though - they’re still looking for the so-called ‘holy grail’ an increase in digital music sales equivalent to the reduction in CD sales. IFPI Chairman John Kennedy had a bad case of sour grapes when he said that he wouldn’t be happy until the digital music sales exceeded the drop in CD sales.
Given that the music industry has been suffering from declining CD sales for most of this decade and the industry has been ruthlessly cutting costs as a result so to me Kennedy’s statements sound a bit cynical. The majors have been rationalizing their businesses for many years now in response to competition from DVDs, video games and pirated music so I’d expect that increases in digital revenues should be a boon. Maybe it’s time to for the IFPI to stop crying wolf and start thinking about better methods of delivering music that consumers will actually want to use.
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December 31, 2008
Sony BMG News | Columbia Label Group Take No.1 Spot on Singles and Album Charts
The Columbia Label Group is celebrating holding the No.1 positions in both the Single and Album Charts in the UK, with The Ting Tings at No.1 on Singles and Neil Diamond at No.1 on the Albums.
That’s Not My Name is the first chart eligible single from the Ting Tings. Their new album, We Started Nothing, is also released today. The band are currently on a sold out tour of the UK and played a homecoming gig last night in Manchester to celebrate their No.1 success. They will play a sold out show at London’s Astoria this week. Another track from the album, Shut Up And Let Me Go has also been selected for the new iTunes TV Commercial which starts in the UK this week.
After over 125 million career album sales, Neil Diamond achieves his first ever UK No.1 studio album with Home Before Dark, which was produced by Rick Rubin. Neil has been in the UK for extensive promotion which has included a special concert for Radio 2, a Jonathan Ross appearance for next week, and a forthcoming ‘Audience With Neil Diamond’ on ITV1. Already confirmed as the closing headliner as this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Neil will kick off a UK tour on the 5th June at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
Columbia Managing Director Mike Smith says: “It has been incredible to tell one of the greatest living American singer songwriters on the Columbia Roster that he has his first UK No.1 album, and then to hear him in turn congratulate one of our newest signings on their chart topping single. This week is a culmination of everything we are trying to do at Columbia, reinventing legends and creating new ones.”
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December 30, 2008
Why music blogs will one day rule the earth
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What happens when your label’s advertising budget runs thin? Well, you can’t purchase ads in major music magazines. What happens when you stop purchasing ads in major music magazines? They stop covering your releases*.
*if the magazine is Amplifier and the label is The Birdman Recording Group and, if this email exchange over at Idolator is the real deal.
When told that Birdman’s ad budget was closer to what I’d find in my pocket than to what an ad exec would use to buy a new Porsche, Amplifier’s director of advertising wrote back, ” Bummer…..wish we could continue to support your artists, but I guess we can’t. Best of luck.”
When pressed further, he reportedly quipped, “Hey Sorry man…..my kids have to eat….if you’re never going to advertise with us I can’t justify the cost of covering your releases”
This is why music blogs will rule the world one day. Our publishing costs are miniscule, our circulation is great and, we’ll still cover your artists even when times are thin (as long as they make us bob our heads.. and don’t make our ears bleed).
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