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Adele’s 21 is the U.K.’s best-selling artist album of the millennium so far

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Mar 20, 2015

Adele’s 21 is the U.K.’s best-selling artist album of the millennium so far

Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling artist album of the millennium to date, the Official Charts Company can reveal. The singer-songwriter’s second studio album – which spent an impressive 23 weeks at Number 1 – has sold nearly 4,740,000 copies in the UK to date.

Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black earns the Number 2 spot with sales of over 3,560,000 since its 2006 release. The former Official Albums Chart Number 1 spawned five Top 40 singles including Rehab, You Know I’m No Good, Back To Black, Tears Dry On Their Own and Love Is A Losing Game.

In at Number 3 is James Blunt’s debut LP Back To Bedlam, which counts 3,310,000 sales this millennium. The album spent 10 weeks at the Official Albums Chart summit, racking up a total of 40 weeks in the Top 40.

Rounding out the Top 5 are chart debuts Leona Lewis’ Spirit with 3,130,000 UK sales and Dido’s No Angel with 3,080,000 sales.

Robbie Williams and Take That tie for the most entries in the Top 50 with four each. Robbie’s Swing When You’re Winning (21), Greatest Hits (25), Sing When You’re Winning (31) and Escapology (35) feature on the list alongside Take That’s Beautiful World (13), Progress (22), Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection (24) and The Circus (30).

Other acts with multiple entries include; Coldplay (3), Adele (2), Dido (2), Ed Sheeran (2), Michael Buble (2) and Rihanna (2).

Of the Top 50 Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the Millennium, only two were released before the year 2000 – David Gray’s White Ladder and ABBA’s Gold – Greatest Hits, which sit at Numbers 8 and 19, respectively.

Only 39 albums have passed the 2 million UK sales mark this millennium, with the latest addition to the list, Ed Sheeran’s X, tipping over just this week.

50 Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the Millennium in the U.K.

NO. TITLE ARTIST LABEL
1 21 ADELE XL RECORDINGS
2 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE ISLAND
3 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT ATLANTIC
4 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS SYCO MUSIC
5 NO ANGEL DIDO ARISTA
6 1 BEATLES APPLE CORPS
7 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE
8 WHITE LADDER DAVID GRAY EAST WEST
9 THE FAME LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE
10 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE
11 LIFE FOR RENT DIDO CHEEKY
12 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON HAND ME DOWN
13 BEAUTIFUL WORLD TAKE THAT POLYDOR
14 HOPES AND FEARS KEANE ISLAND
15 SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS POLYDOR
16 X&Y COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE
17 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE
18 COME AWAY WITH ME NORAH JONES VIRGIN
19 GOLD – GREATEST HITS ABBA POLYDOR
20 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP EMINEM INTERSCOPE
21 SWING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND
22 PROGRESS TAKE THAT POLYDOR
23 EYES OPEN SNOW PATROL FICTION
24 NEVER FORGET – THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION TAKE THAT RCA
25 GREATEST HITS ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND
26 NUMBER ONES MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC
27 19 ADELE XL RECORDINGS
28 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE
29 ROCKFERRY DUFFY A&M
30 THE CIRCUS TAKE THAT POLYDOR
31 SING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND
32 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE VIRGIN
33 HOT FUSS KILLERS VERTIGO
34 AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY REPRISE
35 ESCAPOLOGY ROBBIE WILLIAMS ISLAND
36 EMPLOYMENT KAISER CHIEFS B-UNIQUE/POLYDOR
37 SONGS ABOUT JANE MAROON 5 A&M
38 BY THE WAY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS WARNER BROS
39 X ED SHEERAN ASYLUM
40 STRIPPED CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA
41 JUSTIFIED JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE
42 THE GREATEST HITS TEXAS MERCURY
43 I DREAMED A DREAM SUSAN BOYLE SYCO MUSIC
44 + ED SHEERAN ASYLUM
45 LOUD RIHANNA DEF JAM
46 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD RIHANNA DEF JAM
47 CALL OFF THE SEARCH KATIE MELUA DRAMATICO
48 BORN TO DO IT CRAIG DAVID WEA
49 UNBREAKABLE – THE GREATEST HITS – VOL 1 WESTLIFE S
50 GREATEST HITS GUNS N’ ROSES GEFFEN

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino On Why Rock Stars Are the Best Marketers in the World

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Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino On Why Rock Stars Are the Best Marketers in the World

Live Nation launched a channel on Yahoo last year that shows one live concert every day. What’s the response been?
Michael Rapino: We think that we have put together a very exciting slate of artists, and we’ve been very, very overwhelmed by the amount of viewers that are tuning in for the live performance of this high-quality production.

How has the role of the artists changed in all of this?
I’ve met plenty of CMOs in life, and I always say that I’ve never met any that can hold a candle to rock stars, who I truly believe are the greatest brand managers in the world. You look at the Rolling Stones. It had the lips, the logo and the style. You look at Jay-Z, who I think is probably the smartest brand marketer I’ve ever met. These people understand the core of what their brand is and what their fans want.

Via AdWeek

New research provides insights into what UK consumers think about music

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New research provides insights into what UK consumers think about music

From CMU:

Media Insight Consulting, the consultancy business set up last year by former Universal Music Global Insight Director Chris Carey, has released some top-line data from a consumer research initiative titled ‘What Music Means To Me’, based on a survey of 2650 consumers.

Among the findings in the first batch of results to be released (more will follow focused on live and merch) are…

• Over half of consumers place a high value on music, with 30% of those surveyed, and 44% of 16-24s, saying that “music is my number one passion”.

• 43% of the 16-24s surveyed had used a free streaming service in the last year, though the 25-34 age group was most inclined to pay to access streaming music.

• 60% of consumers overall said they were still interested in purchasing physical product, and while that figure declines as people get younger, 44% of 16-24s still expressed an interest in non-digital releases.

• And when it comes to ownership of music – physical or digital – unsurprisingly under 25s are less obsessed with owning copies of their favourite tunes, with 48% saying it’s not necessary because music is so readily available online. Though that still means half are attracted in some way to permanent copies.

– See more at: http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/new-research-provides-insights-into-what-uk-consumers-think-about-music/#sthash.fUMghFCt.dpuf

Blissdom Canada is coming to British Columbia

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Blissdom Canada is coming to British Columbia

BlissDom Canada is one of my favourite conferences, drawing more than 400 of Canada’s top social media influencers for a weekend of professional development, networking, opportunity and FUN. This is THE premiere event to engage and build relationships with the women’s market in Canada. This year’s event run October 15-18th somewhere in Ontario (yes, the suspense is killing me, too, but you’ll just have to wait for the location a little while longer, say the organizers.

Quite apart from the usual conferences, the team at BlissDom Canada is cutting edge. They think and plan and work hard to bring delegates inspiring experiences that will change their lives – and they have. Ask anyone who has attended, and they’re evangelical about the weekend.

Over the last months, they have been working hard to bring a taste of BlissDom Canada to Western Canada – a mix of all the amazing experiences and learning they provide at BlissDom Canada, but in a whole new way.

Called The ROAM Experience , Blissdom will be in Kelowna, BC to the Delta Okanagan Grand Resort, May 31-June 2, 2015. You can get your tickets here.

British Columbia? Blissom? Twice as nice.

Luminaries from the Canadian music industry reflect on the state of the industry

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Luminaries from the Canadian music industry reflect on the state of the industry

Alan Cross; Murray Foster, Paul Morris from HTZ FM, Noah Mintz and I gathered at Brock University last night to reflect on the state of the industry. We could have talked for hours, and might have, if we weren’t stopped about 2 hours in.

Producers, Mixers and Engineers to Get Digital Royalties in New House Bill

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Producers, Mixers and Engineers to Get Digital Royalties in New House Bill

From Music Times:

A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives is being introduced in Congress this week that would give producers, engineers and mixers — often times the unsung and forgotten heroes in the whole song-making process — a piece of the digital royalty pie. The Allocation for Music Producer Act, or AMP Act (H.R. 1457), is being formally introduced by congressmen from both sides of the aisle: Reps. Joe Crowley (D-New York) and Tom Rooney (R-Florida).

In the past it has been up to the producers, engineers and mixers to negotiate their own splits on royalty payments. The AMP Act would create a statutory right for producers to receive royalties that would be managed through SoundExchange. This would give the producers, engineers and mixers the right to a piece of the digital royalties pie when this is becoming an increasingly important revenue stream with streaming.

This new framework will also give studio warriors the ability to negotiate with artists on works older than 1995, when the 45 percent digital royalty rate for artists was established. If the request was for more than four months, a collective will weigh in on the request and, if approved, give 2 percent of the 45 percent to the mixer, engineer or producer. The 2 percent would be split evenly if there are multiple requesters.

Music Industry Leaders Offer Hot Topics Workshops For Musicians, April 10-12 In Toronto

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I’ll be the Workshop for Musicians on April 11th – hope you can make it!

The workshops are the initiative of the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists. In the March 2015 issue of The WholeNote, editor David Perlman wrote, “Ann Summers Dossena, driving force behind IRCPA, has been preaching in the arts wilderness for as long as I can remember about the unmet needs of artists on the edge of performing careers who have nowhere to turn for support, resources and expertise when they are in the process of making the transi¬tion from a sheltered academic environment to the realities of life as working musicians.” Summers Dossena says, “We are pleased to welcome JAZZ.FM91, The Canadian Music Centre, Paintbox Bistro and all the other partners in the Hot Topics workshops, to expand our mission in assisting the wider music community.”

The March and April programs of the IRCPA are made possible, in part, by contributions from and/or the participation of the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, The Daniels Corporation, WholeNote Media Inc., the Canadian Music Centre, Canadian Opera Company, JAZZ.FM91, Mirvish Productions, Paganelli’s Risotteria, Paintbox Bistro, SOCAN Foundation and private donations.

Depending on funding, the IRCPA also provides year-round services to artists on request, including round-table discussions, research, feedback auditions, mentoring sessions and consultations. Founded and led by award-winning artist manager Ann Summers Dossena, the IRCPA aims to “turn potential into accomplishment”. Charitable donations to these programs can be made through Canada Helps by clicking on the website www.ircpa.net.

Adam Levine To Produce NBC Songwriting Competition Show

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Adam Levine To Produce NBC Songwriting Competition Show

From Billboard:

NBC’s next big music show could come from those who’ve helped make The Voice a hit.

The latter’s executive producer Audrey Morrissey and coach Adam Levine are teaming with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dave Stewart on a pilot called Songland. As its title suggests, the project is predicated on the simple premise that the songwriter is king in the music business.

While artists make money on songs that they record, songwriters have multiple avenues and points at which they can generate hefty revenue from their works. If ultimately ordered to series, Songland will pull back the curtain on the song marketplace and the power brokers within it. The project is expected to feature everyday people with compelling stories who get the opportunity to pitch original compositions to the music industry’s biggest producers and artists all hunting for the next global smash.

Songland is being produced by Live Animals in association with Dave Stewart Entertainment and Levine’s 222 Productions. The three-time Grammy winner will be an executive producer on the project alongside Morrissey, Stewart, Live Animals’ Ivan Dudynsky and Levine’s manager-turned-producing partner Jordan Feldstein.

The infamous Troggs Tapes

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An in-studio tape of Reg Presley’s running commentary on a recording session, filled with in-fighting and swearing (known as “The Troggs Tapes”), was widely circulated in the music underground, and was included in the Archaeology box set, as well as the compilation album, The Rhino Brothers Present the World’s Worst Records. The in-group infighting is believed to be the inspiration for a scene in the comedy film, This is Spinal Tap, where the band members are arguing. Some of this dialogue was sampled by the California punk band The Dwarves on their recording of a cover version of the Troggs song “Strange Movies”.

These Are Some of The Most Beautiful Album Covers Found – And Here’s What You Can Learn From Them

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These Are Some of The Most Beautiful Album Covers Found – And Here’s What You Can Learn From Them

From Canva:

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, and the same rule should probably apply for music.

We all know that we should probably pay more attention to what’s inside the box rather than outside, but it’s just a matter of fact that a beautiful exterior design can make the interior just that little bit better.

01. Colour Me Cohesive

This sleek album cover was actually designed by the musician himself, Tycho, also known as Scott Hansen. The design is built on a strong colour scheme, showcased in sharp geometric shapes, and each colour has been made to correspond to a track. Creating a strong palette that can be used cohesively with the content can make for a pretty effective design.

02. Explore Die Cutting

Die cutting is used to create cut-out areas in your design, and when used correctly it can create a unique depth to your design. Check out the geometric die cutting done in this album sleeve from David Marsh, that allows for the two-tone cover to peek through, adding a sophisticated extra layer to the design.

03. Why Not Pop-Up?

Who said pop-up pictures were just for childrens’ books? This example fromTyler Stout pairs fully illustrated cover art with a pop-up picture of the artists, just quirky enough to capture the comedic tone and genre of the music.

04. Use The Whole Canvas

When it comes to album cover design, it is easy to consider the design from the standpoint of each panel being separate. But another option is to embrace the entire length of the case, just as Kamil Borowski has done in the example. Instead of limiting your artwork to just the front panel, consider extending it to expand over the width of the case, and perhaps even across the disc, just as has been done in this example, to create a larger image.

05. Get Creative With Packaging

Why is it that round albums have to come in perfectly square boxes? Being a bit creative with the shape of your packaging can really help highlight your design and give it a unique physical presence on the CD rack. Check out this angular album cover packaging by inCentea, that goes against almost everything you thought you knew about album cases.

06. Get Interactive

Consider how your audience will interact with your design, and how this interaction can be enhanced upon. Bonus points if this interactive element ties directly into the album title, as this heat-sensitive cover designed by Modo ties into the title “The Second Law”, referencing the second law of thermodynamics.

Check out lots more here.