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David Duchovny To Release Sophomore Album, “Every Third Thought”

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David Duchovny will release his second album Every Third Thought on February 9th via King Baby/GMG. This is the follow up to 2015’s Hell or Highwater that Rolling Stone called “a likable, lyrically tart, vaguely Wilco-ish debut album.” Every Third Thought moves away from the folkier vibe of the debut set into more rock territory. Recorded at Atomic Sound in Brooklyn in December 2016, the album showcases Duchovny’s storytelling and playing: “I feel like this Album presents a real growth lyrically and musically from the first and I can’t wait to get it out there.”

The album will be initially released digitally and on streaming services with plans for CD and vinyl to be announced soon.

It is surprising to know that David Duchovny only picked up a guitar a few years ago in a spell of free time, between projects, at first just to amuse himself but as he started playing, felt inspired to start writing songs. He grew up listening to classic late 60’s early 70’s rock: The Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, Yes etc… along with a lot of funk which he aspires to play, joking he’ll need to become a better musician to do so.

David Duchovny is best known as an award winning actor, director and novelist starring in the smash TV series The X-Files (winning a Golden Globe for the role.) His first novel Holy Cow was released by Farrar Straus and Giroux in February 2015 and hit the New York Times Best Sellers’ list. This was followed up by his second novel, Bucky F*cking Dent, which also hit the New York Times Best Sellers’ list, and was released globally in 2016.

In 2015, David completed his first studio album for for ThinkSay Records titled Hell or Highwater touring both Europe and the US in support.

David reprised his award winning role as Fox Mulder January 3rd on The X-Files. His third book, Miss Subways, will be released globally in May of 2018, and David is planning on Directing and Producing his novel, Bucky F*cking Dent into a film summer of 2018. He also plans to hit the road in support of his new album, first in Australia and New Zealand in February with U.S. plans to be announced soon.

Every Third Thought Tracklisting:
1. Half Life
2. Every Third Thought
3. Maybe I Can’t
4. Stranger in the Sacred Heart
5. Mo’
6. Someone Else’s Girl
7. When the Whistle Blows
8. Spiral
9. Roman Coin
10. Jericho
11. Last First Time
12. Marble Sun

Tour Dates:
Feb 20 – Auckland, NZ
Feb 21 – Wellington, NZ
Feb 23 – Melbourne, AU
Feb 24 – Sydney, AU
Feb 25 – Wollongong, AU
Feb 28 – Newcastle, AU
March 1 – Brisbane, AU

Spotify and Apple Help UK’s Biggest Growth in Music Consumption In Two Decades

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Digital streaming and the ongoing vinyl revival are both fueling Britain’s rise in music sales after more than 135million albums were sold last year. Music fans in the UK purchased the huge number of albums across all formats, including digital downloads, CDs and vinyls. The giant figure is almost a 10 per cent increase on the previous year and it is the UK’s biggest growth in music sales in two decades.

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The Beatles Have The #1 And #2 Best-Selling Vinyl Albums In 2017

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The Beatles finish 2017 with the top two selling vinyl LPs of the year: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (72,000 — powered in large part by the album’s deluxe anniversary reissue in 2017) and Abbey Road (66,000). The soundtrack Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is the third biggest with 62,000. Comparably, in 2016, the top three sellers were Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface (68,000), David Bowie’s Blackstar (66,000) and Adele’s 25 (58,000).

TOP 10 SELLING VINYL ALBUMS OF 2017 IN U.S.
Rank Artist, Title Sales
1 The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 72,000
2 The Beatles, Abbey Road 66,000
3 Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 62,000
4 Ed Sheeran, ÷ (Divide) 62,000
5 Amy Winehouse, Back to Black 58,000
6 Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain (Soundtrack) 58,000
7 Bob Marley and The Wailers, Legend: The Best Of… 49,000
8 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon 54,000
9 Soundtrack, La La Land 49,000
10 Michael Jackson, Thriller 49,000
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 30, 2016 through Dec. 28, 2017.

 

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Vinyl Sales Are Up Almost 10% In 2017

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Vinyl album sales have hit another Nielsen-era record high, as the configuration sold 14.32 million (up 9 percent) in 2017 in the US. That’s up from the previous one-year high, registered in 2016 with 13.1 million. 2017 marks the 12th straight year of growth in vinyl album sales.

Vinyl LP sales represented 8.5 percent of all album sales in 2017 – up from 6.5 percent for the configuration’s share in 2016. Further, LP sales were 14 percent of all physical album sales in 2017 (a Nielsen-era record share for the format) – up from 11 percent in 2016.

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Taylor Swift’s Reputation Is The US’s Biggest Album Of 2017

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Taylor Swift’s Reputation tops Nielsen Music’s year-end best-selling albums list, with 1.9 million sold. This is the third time Swift has claimed the year’s top-selling album. She did it previously with her last studio effort, 1989 (2014’s best seller, with 3.66 million sold that calendar year), and Fearless (2009’s leader, with 3.22 million sold that year). 1989 and Fearless have sold a total of 6.11 million and 7.13 million copies, respectively, since their release.

Notably, in the last nine years (2009 through 2017), seven of the year-end best-sellers have been an album by either Swift or Adele.

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS OF 2017 IN U.S.
Rank Artist, Title Sales
1 Taylor Swift, Reputation 1,903,000
2 Ed Sheeran, ÷ (Divide) 1,102,000
3 Kendrick Lamar, DAMN. 910,000
4 Bruno Mars, 24K Magic 710,000
5 Soundtrack, Moana 709,000
6 Chris Stapleton, From A Room: Volume 1 658,000
7 P!nk, Beautiful Trauma 628,000
8 Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 600,000
9 Metallica, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct 585,000
10 Soundtrack, Trolls 522,000
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 30, 2016 through Dec. 28, 2017.

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Music Is Up 12.5% In The US In 2017

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Total music consumption in 2017 in the US climbed 12.5 percent to 636.65 million units (up from 566.1 million). That figure adds together traditional album sales, track equivalent album units, and on-demand streaming equivalent album units from both video and audio streams. One track equivalent album unit is equal to 10 tracks sold. One streaming equivalent album unit is equal to 1,500 on-demand streams.

In terms of audio-only consumption (removing on-demand video streams from the equation), the gain was 10.2 percent, rising to 491.55 million units (from 446.12 million).

The R&B/hip-hop genre represented 24.5% of all music consumption in the U.S. in 2017 — the largest share of any genre and the first time R&B/hip-hop has led this measurement for a calendar year.

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Ed Sheeran’s ÷ Is 2017’s Biggest Album In The US

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TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2017 IN U.S., BY TOTAL EQUIVALENT ALBUM UNITS 
Rank Artist, Title Total Units Album Sales TEA Units SEA Units
1 Ed Sheeran, ÷ (Divide) 2,764,000 1,102,000 581,000 1,081,000
2 Kendrick Lamar, DAMN. 2,747,000 910,000 217,000 1,620,000
3 Taylor Swift, Reputation 2,336,000 1,903,000 153,000 280,000
4 Drake, More Life 2,227,000 363,000 149,000 1,715,000
5 Bruno Mars, 24K Magic 1,626,000 710,000 320,000 597,000
6 Post Malone, Stoney 1,564,000 128,000 174,000 1,262,000
7 Migos, Culture 1,438,000 134,000 156,000 1,149,000
8 The Weeknd, Starboy 1,408,000 275,000 189,000 945,000
9 Soundtrack, Moana 1,254,000 709,000 197,000 348,000
10 Khalid, American Teen 1,220,000 147,000 124,000 950,000
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 30, 2016 through Dec. 28, 2017.

 

Here’s Sir Ian McKellen jamming with The Fleshtones on Andy Warhol’s MTV show

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Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare over The Fleshtones on Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes – a show that ran on MTV in 1987.