2013 YEAR-END MARKETSHARE
IGA TEAs Off
| MUSIC GROUPS (TOTAL) | 2013 | 2012 | +/- | OVERALL/TEA |
| UMG | 39.2 | 31.1 | 8.1 | 38.7 |
| SME | 30.2 | 30.4 | -0.2 | 29.4 |
| WMG | 14.7 | 15.1 | -0.4 | 14.7 |
| EMI | ----- | 7.8 | N/A | ----- |
| TOP 10 LABELS (FRONTLINE) | 2013 | 2012 | +/- | OVERALL/TEA |
| 1. Republic | 9.1 | 8.5 | 0.6 | 7.3 |
| 2. RCA | 7.6 | 5.4 | 2.2 | 7.2 |
| 3. Columbia | 7.6 | 10.3 | -2.7 | 7.3 |
| 4. IGA | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7.7 |
| 5. Capitol Music Group | 6.5 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 7 |
| 6. UMG Nashville | 5.3 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 7. Atlantic | 4.7 | 5.4 | -0.7 | 6.4 |
| 8. Island Def Jam | 3.7 | 4.9 | -1.2 | 4.1 |
| 9. Warner Bros. | 3.5 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 4.9 |
| 10. Sony Nashville | 2.1 | 2.7 | -0.6 | 2.8 |
Monte Lipman’s Republic led the label field with a flag-waving 9.1% in frontline marketshare, up 0.6, and 7.3 overall/TEA, powered by Top 20 releases from Drake (#6), Florida Georgia Line (#7), Taylor Swift (#14) and the Pitch Perfect ST (#17), as well as monster singles from Florida George Line and Lorde.
Next come Nipper and Columbia, in a virtual tie. RCA’s Edge-Corson team added 2.2% for a 7.6% frontline finish (7.2 TEA) on the strength of the year’s top album from Justin Timberlake as well as P!nk (#12), JT’s Complete Experience (#20) and big singles from JT, P!nk and Miley Cyrus.
At 7.6% (7.3 TEA), Rob Stringer’s Columbia got a year-end 0.5% boost from Beyoncé’s surprise holiday blockbuster, which enjoyed a 618k bow this week. Columbia also had monsters in Daft Punk (#13) and a Q4 smash from One Direction (#16) Oh, and Adele sold another 585k.
The IGA of Iovine, Janick and Berman moved up to 7.0% (+1.0) and a potent 7.7 in TEA.
What was rocking their Beats Pills? Eminem (#2), Imagine Dragons (#5) and explosive track sales by iTunes champ Robin Thicke as well as the aforementioned Em and Dragons.
Next comes Steve Barnett’s freshly reorganized and invigorated Capitol Music Group, which scored a 6.5% frontline share, up a hearty 3.9% (7.0 TEA), powered in part by #18 Katy Perry and her 4m single sales.
Mike Dungan’s UMG Nashville was ropin’ and a-ridin’ with a yeee-haw-worthy 5.3% (up a nifty 3.5%), thanks to boy-howdy sales by Luke Bryan (#3), among others.
Steve Bartels’ Island Def Jam garnered 3.7% and 4.1 TEA thanks to Rihanna, Kanye West and weekly single-slinger Justin Bieber. Next came Cameron Strang’s Warner Bros., which added 0.7% for a 3.5 frontline and 4.9 TEA, with Blake Shelton (#9). Gary O’s Sony Nashville rounds out the Top 10 with 2.1%.
| TOP 10 ALBUMS | YTD/RTD | |
| 1 | Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience (RCA) | 2.39m |
| 2 | Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP2 (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) | 1.50m |
| 3 | Luke Bryan, Crash My Party (Capitol Nashville) | 1.40m |
| 4 | Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox (Atlantic) | 1.35m/1.82m |
| 5 | Imagine Dragons, Night Visions (KidinaKorner/Interscope) | 1.29m/1.67m |
| 6 | Drake, Nothing Was the Same (Young Money/Cash Money/Rep) | 1.26m |
| 7 | Florida Georgia Line, Here’s to the Good Times (Republic Nashville) | 1.24m/1.38m |
| 8 | Jay Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail (Roc Nation) | 1.08m |
| 9 | Mumford & Sons, Babel (Glassnote) | 1.07m/2.52m |
| 10 | Blake Shelton, Based on a True Story (WB) | 1.07m |
| TOP 11 SINGLES | YTD/RTD | |
| 1 | Robin Thicke f/T.I. & Pharrell, “Blurred Lines” (Star Trak/Int.) | 6.38m |
| 2 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Thrift Shop” (Macklemore) | 6.09m/7.20m |
| 3 | Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive” (KidinaKorner/Interscope) | 5.32m/5.48m |
| 4 | Florida Georgia Line, “Cruise” (Republic Nashville) | 4.58m/6.20m |
| 5 | P!nk f/Nate Ruess, “Just Give Me a Reason” (RCA) | 4.27m |
| 6 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Can’t Hold Us” (Macklemore) | 4.16m |
| 7 | Katy Perry, “Roar” (Capitol) | 4.07m |
| 8 | Lorde, “Royals” (Lava/Republic) | 4.00m |
| 9 | Bruno Mars, “When I Was Your Man” (Atlantic) | 3.88m/4.07m |
| 10 | Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko, “Stay” (Island/IDJ) | 3.81m |
