Live Nation saw revenues grow 6.4% in Q1 2013 while cutting its net losses by just under $6 million year-on-year. While revenues for the live giant stood at $923.7 million in the first quarter, the company’s net loss came in at $63.2 million compared to $69.2 million in the same period last year
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Live Nation Q1 revenue up 6.4% as net losses narrow
In a series of management moves at Capital FM London, Robert D’Ovidio has been appointed managing editor while Mike Parker takes on the new role of deputy managing editor. D’Ovidio has been at Capital since 2009, most recently in the role of acting managing editor of the station.His new responsibilities will include the London network centre as well as Capital FM London. Mike Parker joined Global Radio in 2010, most recently in the role of Capital’s network producer
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Capital FM appoints new Managing Editor in series of senior promotions
SINGLES Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Get Lucky got off to a brisk start for Daft Punk – but it continues to grow, adding a further 163,384 sales to its previous nine day haul of 205,632 to become their biggest selling single to date. One More Time – number two in 2000 -was the previous holder of the record, with sales to date of 302,915. Topping the chart for the second time, Get Lucky actually increased sales by 5.26% last week, and becomes the first number one outside of December, X Factor and charity releases to sell in excess of 150,000 in consecutive weeks since Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head in September 2001. Get Lucky vaults 24-10 on the year-to-date rankings, which it seems sure to top before the end of the month
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Official Charts Analysis: Daft Punk’s Get Lucky tops 300k sales
Vince Power’s Hop Farm Festival 2013 has been scrapped due to low ticket sales. The event was due to take place in Kent on Friday, July 5 and Saturday July 6, headlined by My Bloody Valentine and Rodriguez
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Hop Farm Festival 2013 cancelled due to poor ticket sales
Emeli Sande has told Music Week of her delight to beat The Beatles and achieve the longest Top 10 run with a debut album of all time. The Virgin Records artist last Sunday (April 28) claimed a record set by the Fab Four 49 years ago when Our Version Of Events spent its 63rd consecutive week inside the Official UK Top 10. That is one more week than The Beatles’ Please Please Me managed, giving it the longest uninterrupted Top 10 run for a debut album in history.
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Interview: Sande’s thrill at beating The Beatles
I am sat two feet from my hero, watching him decay.
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Loudon Wainwright III: Dying to impress
The new 13,000-seat arena in Leeds has agreed its major sponsor and will be known as the First Direct Arena. This marks the bank’s first major sponsorship deal.
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New Leeds Arena sponsored by First Direct
Today’s Official Chart Midweek Sales Flash is in. Rudimental remain at the top of the albums chart with Home, followed by Michael Buble with To Be Loved. Meanwhile, Daft Punk continue to sit at the peak of the singles chart, ahead of Rudimental’s own Waiting All Night
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Official Charts Midweek Top 40s: Friday, May 3
The Nettwerk label is heading for its first ever UK Top 10 album and biggest single since 2000 thanks to Brighton singer-songwriter Passenger. The alias of Mike Rosenburg, the act has climbed 11-4 in the midweek singles chart with Let Her Go, while All the Lights has risen 25-10 on artist albums, according to the Official Charts Company. The first and only time previously Nettwerk made the Top 10 of the singles chart was back in 2000 with the Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan hit Silence, which reached No 3.
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Midweek Charts update: Nettwerk heading for first ever Top 10 album
As digital media continues to grow, WorldPay has surveyed 3,000 UK and US consumers that have purchased said materials online in the past 12 months, which comes as part of a new Digital Generation Report.
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WorldPay: Half of Brits want the power to resell their digital content
One, two and three-day festival tickets for the Great Escape festival 2013 have sold out. Organisers revealed that the tickets have been promptly snapped up for the event that will see over 16,000 attendees flock to Brighton across May 16-18 to attend the convention packed with industry speakers and see a range of live music performances from new and established artists. Performers include Klaxons, Everything Everything, King Krule, Chvurches, and David Rodigan MBE and Tribes
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All Great Escape day tickets sold out
Deeper in Disguise is the new single from up-and-coming UK band Empress. The track, mastered in the US, serves as a taster of the band’s forthcoming yet-to-be-named debut album and is available now via iTunes, and all other digital stores. It preceded the band’s tour support slots with Bring Me The Horizon tha began on April 29.
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Music Week Presents: Empress
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