Sales music singles in the U.K.
Content
• History of UK single market
• Official UK Charts Company
• Physical sales
• Digital sales
• Profit divide
• Music sales per person
• UK sales hit records 2009
• Best selling singles of 2009
• Sales after Live Aid
• Best selling singles ever
History of UK single market
• New musical express (1952)
• Melody Maker (1958)
• Record Retailer (1960)
• Top of the Pops (1964)
• Research organisation Gallup (1983)
• Chart Information Network (CIN) (1994)
• The Official UK Charts Company (2001)
Official UK Charts company
• Only sales = no airplay
• 99% singles market
• 6.500 retail outlets (sales data)
• 1.115 singles reached charts
• Published on sundays
• Broadcasted on BBC Radio 1
Physical sales
• Counting since 1952
• “Al Martino – Here in my heart”
• Breakthrough The Beatles in the 60s
• Popularity “Top of the Pops” 70s&80s
• “Candle in the wind” best sold ever
• Sales decreased since late 90’s
• Physical sales ended 2008
Digital sales
• Legal downloads since 2004
• “Gnarls Barkley – Crazy” scoop
• Digital sales increased
• Old songs returned
• “Leona Lewis – Run” first digital nr.1
• Digital sales only since 2008
Physical vs. Digital sales
Profit divide
• Artist: 15%
• Record label: 35%
• Retailer: 50%
• Example: CD in a retail shop costs $20The retailer gets $10, record label $7 & the artist just...$3.
Music sales per person
UK Singles sales hit record in 2009
• Single sales have hit 117,6 million
• “Lady GaGa” most successful artist
• British music market could “explode”
• 2009 “The era of the digital single”
Top 10 UK’s best selling singles of 2009
• 1. Lady GaGa – Poker Face (848,450 x)
• 2. Black Eyed Peas – I gotta feeling (762,860 x)
• 3. Lady GaGa – Just Dance (746,610 x)
• 4. La Roux – In for the kill (650,310 x)
• 5. Cheryl Cole – Fight for this love (632,090 x)
• 6. Black Eyed Peas – Boom boom pow (592,585 x)
• 7. Tinchy Stryder ft. N-Dubz – Number 1 (530,145 x)
• 8. Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida– Bad Boys (490,815 x)
• 9. David Guetta ft. Akon – Sexy Bitch (478,715 x)
• 10. Kings of Leon – Use somebody (477,940 x)
Black Eyed Peas - I gotta feeling.wav
Lady GaGa - Poker Face.wav
Sales increased after Live Aid
• Bob Geldoff organisator
• Live aid (1985)• Live8 (2005)
Pink Floyd ‘Echoes - Best Of’ - 1343%The Who ‘Then & Now’ – 863%Annie Lennox ‘Eurythmics Greatest Hits’ - 500% Dido ‘Life for Rent’ - 412% Razorlight ‘Up all Night’ - 335%
Robbie Williams ‘Greatest Hits’ - 320%
Top 10 UK’s best selling singles ever
• 1. Elton John – Candle in the wind (1997)
• 2. Band Aid – Do they know it’s christmas time? (1985)
• 3. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
• 4. Wings – Mull of Kintyre (1977)
• 5. Boney M – Rivers of Babylon (1978)
• 6. Frankie goes to Hollywood – Relax (1984)
• 7. The Beatles – She love you (1965)
• 8. John Travolta & Olivia Newton John – You’re the that I want (1978)
• 9. Robson & Jerome – Unchained Melody (1995)
• 10. Boney M – Mary’s boy child (1978)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.wav
Band Aid - Do they know it's christmas.wav
Elton John - Candle in the wind.wav
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Discussion
Statement 1
“It is not fair that artists earn just 15% of the total sales amount”
Statement 2
“Illegal download sites have to be stopped by the government”
Statement 3
“The Live Aid concerts did not help at all. Only the artists are getting whealty, the African people are
still poor”
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