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With its Glee soundtracks, Sade (#3) and continued sales of Susan Boyle (#8 on the year-to-date Top 10), Columbia/Epic Records Group once more leads the label new release marketshare race, scoring 9.8%.
Thursday, June 17, 2010

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SME, UMG Remain Tied, Columbia/Epic Still On Top With Six Months to Go
It's a dead heat on the marketshare heap.

At the six-month mark of 2010, Doug Morris’ UMG and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz’s Sony Music Entertainment remain tied atop the total marketshare leader board with 28.7% apiece, the pair’s exact same total after Q1. Edgar Bronfman’s Warner Music Group, at 15.3%, is up .5 a percentage point from its Q1 total of 14.8 and down a percentage point from last year’s total of 16.3%. Thanks to Lady Antebellum, the year’s best-seller, EMI is up 2.3 percentage points from last year at 11.2%.

With its Glee soundtracks, Sade (#3) and continued sales of Susan Boyle (#8 on the year-to-date Top 10), Rob Stringer's Columbia/Epic Records Group once more leads the label new release marketshare race, scoring 9.8%, up 2 percentage points from last year, followed by Barry Weiss’ RCA/Jive Label Group at 8.4%, up 1.1 percentage points, thanks to Usher’s Raymond v Raymond (#5) and Ke$ha (#7) on the midyear Top 10.

Jimmy Iovine’s Interscope Geffen A&M group is third, at 7.2%, down from Q1’s 8.8% and off 1.1 percentage points from last year at this time, despite two of the Top 10 albums in Lady Gaga (#4) and Black Eyed Peas (#6).

Julie Greenwald and Craig Kallman’s Atlantic Records is down 2.2 percentage points at 6.1%, with Universal Records Group rounding out the Top 5, up .4 percentage points, placing Lil Wayne in the Top 10.

L.A. Reid’s Island Def Jam is next, up .7 to 5.9%, thanks to a pair of Justin Bieber albums in the Top 10, with My World 2.0 (#2) and My World (#9).

The most dramatic gain was registered by Mike Dungan’s Capitol Nashville, home of Lady Antebellum, the year’s top-selling album to date, with 2.2 million, helping move it up 2.5 percentage points, from 1.8-4.3%.

Other positive year-to-year gains were registered by Warner Bros. (4.4-5.6%), Capitol Music Group (2.8-3.0, +.2) and SME Nashville (1.8-2.7, +.9).

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