The Orchard Chart Toppers: June 2014

It’s been an exciting start to the summer with our chart topping artists and labels! This month, we’re cheering to The Story So Far, who’s currently killing Warped Tour with a number of other Pure Noise artists; San Francisco Symphony, who topped Billboard’s Traditional Classical Albums and Classical Albums chart; and while we don’t usually include Top Tracks in these summaries, we just had to for one particular week on iTunes Brazil, where two of our artists dominated more than half of the Top 20, as well as Julias Moon and Porcelain Black, who came in #1 in their respective Danish and French iTunes genre charts. Last, but certainly not least, Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company, fresh from our expanded partnership with Red Bull Media House, absolutely killed it on pretty much all related iTunes films charts around the world.

PS. This is only a snapshot of our artists’ chart positions. They’ve also placed in many genre charts on both Billboard and iTunes, but we’ve zoned in on the more general charts for the purpose of this post.

WEEK ENDING June 29, 2014

Billboard Current Albums
#175 — Various Artists: Mud Digger: Volume 5 [Average Joe's]

Billboard Independent Albums
#175 — Various Artists: Mud Digger: Volume 5 [Average Joe's]

Billboard Heatseeker Albums
#23 — Vanna: Void [Pure Noise Records]
#53 — Heart To Heart: Dulce [Pure Noise Records]

Portugal Top Albums
#10 — Various Artists: Latin Hits [Vidisco]
#12 — Various Artists: Orbital Anual 2014 [Vidisco]

Spain Top Albums
#7 — Gemeliers: Lo Mejor está por venir [Pep's Records]

iTunes Top 200 Albums
#172 — Jonathan Butler: Living My Dream [Mack Avenue]

iTunes Jazz Albums
#1 — Jonathan Butler: Living My Dream [Mack Avenue]
#6 — Rebirth Brass Band: Move Your Body [Basin Street]

iTunes Brazil Top Albums
#8 — Pollo: 777 [Som Livre/Globo]
#11 — Varios Artistas: Festeja [Som Livre/Globo]

iTunes Brazil Top Tracks
#1 — Malta: Lendas (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#2 — Malta: Diz Pra Mim (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#5 — Malta: Nova Historia (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#6 — Malta: Memórias (Come Wake Me Up) [Superstar] [Som Livre/Globo]
#7 — Malta: Baby (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#8 — Malta: Mais Que o Sol (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#9 — Malta: Alguém (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#13 — Jamz: Insano (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#14 — Jamz: Pot-Pourri: Get Lucky/ Lose Yourself To Dance (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#15 — Jamz: Happy (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]
#20 — Jamz: Nothing On You (Superstar) [Som Livre/Globo]

iTunes Turkey Top Albums
#18 — Erkan Oğur, Derya Türkan & İlkin Deniz: Dokunmak [M&MT]
#19 — Gaye Su Akyol: Develerle Yaşıyorum [Olmadı Kacariz Yapim]

iTunes Russia Top Albums
#7 — Various Artists: Лучшая дискотека 80/90 [Studia Soyuz]
#8 — Grigoriy Leps: The Best (Deluxe Version) [Nikitin]

iTunes Poland Top Albums
#7 — Artur Rojek: Składam się z ciągłych powtórzeń [Kayax]

iTunes Latvia Top Albums
#8 — Raimonds Pauls: Raimonda Paula Dziedāšanas Svētki [Izdevniecība MicRec]

iTunes Denmark Top Electronic Tracks
#2 — Julias Moon: “Lipstick Lies” [NMS]
#7 — Julias Moon: “Bay [Single]” [NMS]

iTunes Top Documentary Movies US
#13 — Isolated [Something Kreative Studios]
#17 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Short Films US
#4 — The Cradle of Storms [Surfer Films]
#20 — Shredtown: Drop the Gun [Shredtown]

iTunes Top Concert Films US
#4 — I Am Hardwell [Robin Piree Media Entertainment]

iTunes Top Documentary Movies CA
#2 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Sports Movies CA
#1 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Short Films CA
#6 — Shredtown: Drop the Gun [Shredtown]

iTunes Top Documentary Movies UK
#9 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Sports Movies UK
#8 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Short Films UK
#3 — NotBad [Anthill Films]
#4 — Shredtown: Drop the Gun [Shredtown]

iTunes Top Music Films UK
#13 — I Am Hardwell [Robin Piree Media Entertainment]

iTunes Top Documentary Movies AU
#5 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Sports Movies AU
#5 — Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company [Red Bull Media House]

iTunes Top Short Films AU
#2 — The Cradle of Storms [Surfer Films]
#9 — Shredtown: Drop the Gun [Shredtown]

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The Orchard + Red Bull Media House Bring You the Best in Action Sports Films

If you love watching visually enticing stunts performed by your favorite extreme athletes like we do here at The Orchard, you’re going to be stoked to hear our latest tidbit of news: we’ve teamed up with Red Bull Media House to give you one hell of an action sports entertainment ride!

You must’ve seen those action-packed clips and commercials done by the drink brand, including some of the world’s greatest kayakers, motocrossers, surfers, skiers, parachuters and other all-out ballers, right? Well Red Bull is also behind these grandest of adventurers in another capacity: film. They’re major producers in the world of action sports films, bringing insane — otherwise unseen — pro footage to die-hard fans of extreme sports.

And now, we’re partnering with Red Bull Media House to get those jam-packed features seen by more audiences far and wide. We already have the largest and richest catalog of action sports films in the world, and we’ve got our very own video imprint, EchoBoom Sports. So we’re excited to reach out to more fans with this remarkable new content through our worldwide digital and cable distribution deal.

What should you be on the lookout for now that the big news is out? For starters, we released Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company just last month. Next up, we’ll release ski film Days Of My Youth and motorcycle doc On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter.

Stay tuned for more phenomenal sports adventure films we’ll be throwing your way. In the mean time, find more details about the partnership in our official press release here.

Say YES to “Heaven & Earth”

It has been forty-five years since legendary Progressive-Rock group YES released their first studio album. They’re back at it this month with Heaven & Earth, eight tracks of sweeping orchestration and layered harmonies that will please fans old and new.

For a band that has been in the business for over forty years, and has sold almost 40 million records, creating an album is like riding a bike. YES know what they’re doing, and they continue to show that with the collaborations on this latest album. Produced by Grammy winner Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, Guns N’ Roses) and mixed by Billy Sherwood (Toto, Paul Rodgers), Heaven & Earth won’t disappoint.

Check out a sample of “Believe Again” below and experience the soaring vocals of new frontman Jon Davision. This preview will only get you more excited for Heaven & Earth, out July 22 on Frontiers Records.

YES will be on tour this summer, check out details below.

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Locals Bring European Surf to Life in “The Old, The Young & The Sea”

“Surfing is the king of sports,” says Juan Giriber of Cantabria, Spain. It is poignant discoveries like this one that make up The Old, The Young & The Sea, a documentary film out this week, as it chronicles the stories of sea lovers along the Atlantic coast of Europe. In it, director Mario Hainzl and producer Andreas Jaritz, plus a team of cinematographers and two Volkswagen buses, embark on a twenty-week European exhibition and share their findings of culture, diversity, and individuals willing to share their heartwarming stories.

Simply put by the film’s website, this is “a movie about the people who inhabit, visit, surf and protect the European shores.” With it, viewers will quickly realize that local accounts are the best kind, and that learning from the people actually spending their lives at or by the sea gives an honest, non-commercial view of surfing and coastal living. Unlike Australia or America, the Atlantic coast has maintained an innocence and privacy to its surfing culture, and this film captures that perfectly.

Winner of Best Movie and Viewers’ Choice Award at Cologne Surf Film Festival 2013, Audience Choice Award at Wavescape Surf Festival 2013, and Viewers’ Choice Award at Munich Surf Film Festival 2013, The Old, The Young & The Sea is a special kind of film any surfing lover simply has to see.

Catch The Old, The Young & The Sea now on your favorite digital video store, and check out the trailer below.

Welcome, Mercedes!

Introducing Mercedes Brown, Client Relations Coordinator, UK

Prior to joining the lovely team at The Orchard, I worked as a Marketing Assistant in the Priorities department at Universal Music Group International — despite primarily dealing with catalog I got to work some frontline releases too. Whilst I was there, I was lucky enough to work the In Utero 20 campaign which I saw landed itself in the music alleys campaign of the year — which is pretty cool! Before that, I worked and interned at various different companies in the industry such as Atlantic Records, Roadrunner Records, Trashed Management and Industry Music Group.

Music-wise my prime forte is Rock and Metal — my favourite band is Metallica, shortly followed by Slipknot, Cancer Bats and Machine Head. Though I have a massive place in my heart reserved for Pop and Dance!

A lot of my spare time is also taken up by music-related things. I write reviews for Glasswerk and I am an artist manager at SGR Artist Management (where I am Counting Days and Feed The Rhino‘s day-to-day manager). I go to a lot of gigs and love festivals and everything like that! If I ever have time around that I train in MMA and indulge in spa days.