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Official Charts Analysis: Sales of Little Mix singles top 500k

Official Charts Analysis: Sales of Little Mix singles top 500k Gated Content

ALBUMS: Perfectly timed to hit the market two days after her guest appearance as an X Factor judge was televised ...

by Alan Jones
on Sep 3rd 2012 at 9:57AM
Official Charts Analysis: Olympics boost for albums

Official Charts Analysis: Olympics boost for albums

ALBUMS: The Olympics are over - but the Olympic flame burns brightly on the chart this week, with artists featured ...

by Alan Jones
on Aug 20th 2012 at 11:50AM
Official Charts Analysis: Abysmal week for album sales

Official Charts Analysis: Abysmal week for album sales Gated Content

ALBUMS: With the savage downturn in the economy and rampant illegal downloading's already massive negative effect on sales exacerbated ...

by Alan Jones
on Aug 13th 2012 at 11:00AM
Daddy, what's A&R?

Daddy, what's A&R? Gated Content

We all love some scurrilous re-telling of industry lore – especially from the days when the music business was gluttonously, ...

Tim Ingham
by Tim Ingham
on Aug 10th 2012 at 4:04PM

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Official Charts Analysis: Wiley's Heatwave pips Calvin Harris by 12k sales

Official Charts Analysis: Wiley's Heatwave pips Calvin Harris by 12k sales Gated Content

ALBUMS: Six weeks after 18 year old Justin Bieber became the first male teenage solo artist in chart history ...

by Alan Jones
on Aug 6th 2012 at 11:49AM
Parlophone

What price Parlophone's break-up? Gated Content

It was bucolic anarchy. Beautiful pandemonium. Organised chaos.

Danny Boyle’s jubilant retelling of Great Britain’s his/her-story at the Olympic Opening ...

Tim Ingham
by Tim Ingham
on Aug 3rd 2012 at 3:43PM
Conor Maynard

Midweeks: Conor Maynard and Plan B in race to No.1 Gated Content

Albums: Conor Maynard looks set to land at No.1 on Sunday's Official UK Artist Albums Chart, but he's being chased ...

Tim Ingham
by Tim Ingham
on Aug 1st 2012 at 4:11PM
Plan B Ill Manors Sleeve

Official Charts Analysis: Plan B album sells 37k to hit No.1 Gated Content

ALBUMS: The Olympics are focusing attention on heroic sporting endeavours in East London, while Plan B's third album Ill Manors ...

by Alan Jones
on Jul 30th 2012 at 10:23AM

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Universal/EMI

Forget Universal/EMI - how does Sony/Warner grab you? Gated Content

There’s a riot going on.

It’s gentle but it’s hot-headed; respectful yet emotive. It’s so God damn indie, it smells ...

Tim Ingham
by Tim Ingham
on Jul 26th 2012 at 1:40PM
Midweek Charts: Plan B no match for dominant Now! 82

Midweek Charts: Plan B no match for dominant Now! 82 Gated Content

Plan B is heading for his second UK artist albums chart-topper, but he is being comprehensively outsold by the latest ...

Paul Willams
by Paul Willams
on Jul 25th 2012 at 4:15PM
US charts analysis: Cher Lloyd wanted in States

US charts analysis: Cher Lloyd wanted in States Gated Content

Cher Lloyd’s Want U Back is now among the US’s Top 10 download sellers as Adele breaks the record for ...

Paul Willams
by Paul Willams
on Jul 19th 2012 at 12:05PM
Midweek Charts: Elton could be heading back to No 1

Midweek Charts: Elton could be heading back to No 1 Gated Content

Elton John has taken an early lead in his bid to top the UK artist albums chart for the first ...

Paul Willams
by Paul Willams
on Jul 18th 2012 at 4:15PM

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Official Charts Analysis: Newton Faulkner needs just 16k sales to hit No.1

Official Charts Analysis: Newton Faulkner needs just 16k sales to hit No.1 Gated Content

Reflecting a week of much activity but few sales, there are six new entries among the top 21 titles on ...

Paul Willams
by Paul Willams
on Jul 16th 2012 at 10:00AM
Official Charts Analysis: No.1 Chris Brown LP sells 30k units in UK

Official Charts Analysis: No.1 Chris Brown LP sells 30k units in UK Gated Content

Chris Brown debuts atop the album chart with his fifth studio set Fortune, while moving closer to racking up his ...

Paul Willams
by Paul Willams
on Jul 9th 2012 at 2:57PM
US charts analysis: One Direction among half-year's biggest sellers

US charts analysis: One Direction among half-year's biggest sellers Gated Content

One Direction’s Up All Night secures its 16th consecutive week in the Billboard 200’s Top 10 as it is named ...

Paul Willams
by Paul Willams
on Jul 5th 2012 at 2:14PM
Official Charts Analysis: Bieber beats Cheryl to No.1 by 3,181 sales

Official Charts Analysis: Bieber beats Cheryl to No.1 by 3,181 sales Gated Content

Four of its tracks made the Top 40 in the lead up to its release to tease punters' appetite, paving ...

STUART OBRIEN
by STUART OBRIEN
on Jun 25th 2012 at 3:04PM

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EDITORIAL: The long and winding road

EDITORIAL: The long and winding road Gated Content

We needn't have bothered. Last week's stomach-punch news that a Great British institution was being flogged to the tune of ...


on Nov 16th 2011 at 12:00AM
The eyes have it

The eyes have it Gated Content

At the MITS Award dinner last week, Jools Holland, the fund-raising organisation's Man of the Year, gave a slick speech ...


on Nov 11th 2011 at 10:24PM
EDITORIAL: Instant market transformation. Google it

EDITORIAL: Instant market transformation. Google it Gated Content

Between Facebook's first real music move, Spotify ramping up its US presence and Apple introducing iCloud (not to mention the ...


on Oct 19th 2011 at 1:00AM
EDITORIAL: No comfort for old men

EDITORIAL: No comfort for old men Gated Content

It has been close to a decade since my service as a plastic peddler in Essential Music, Greenwich Market.


on Oct 16th 2011 at 12:53PM
Queen: a 40-year reign

Queen: a 40-year reign Gated Content

Brian May is too much of a gentleman to complain, but for all the commercial success Queen enjoyed in the ...


on Oct 7th 2011 at 1:00AM
TALENT FOCUS: Professor Green

TALENT FOCUS: Professor Green Gated Content

Green - aka Stephen Manderson - told Music Week: "You have to make hay while the sun shines - the ...


on Oct 6th 2011 at 1:00AM
EDITORIAL: The industry has lost its nerve with on air/on sale

EDITORIAL: The industry has lost its nerve with on air/on sale Gated Content

It is the reason there are no longer many weeks' gap between blockbuster films debuting in US and UK movie ...


on Oct 5th 2011 at 1:00AM
Napster/Rhapsody deal exposes just how tough the digital market is

Napster/Rhapsody deal exposes just how tough the digital market is Gated Content

Both companies, of course, have changed hands several times already in their relatively short lives and the absorption of Napster ...


on Oct 4th 2011 at 1:01PM