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MUSIC WEEK AWARDS 2008: Publisher Of The Year.

Music Week

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WINNER: EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING

Thirteen proved to be anything but unlucky for EMI Music Publishing as it claimed the music publishing crown for an incredible 13th consecutive year.

But it was one of the toughest battles yet for Guy Moot's company as it claimed a 25.0% market share across singles and albums, just 1.2 percentage points ahead of second-placed Universal Music Publishing.

A year after Arctic Monkeys achieved what was then the fastest-selling debut album of all time with Whatever People Think I Am That's What I'm Not, the Sheffield band delivered again for EMI as follow-up Favourite Worst Nightmare finished as the 10th biggest-selling album of 2007.

Other big stars returned for the publisher, too, among them James Blunt whose own second album All The Lost Souls was the year's 17th best seller, ...

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