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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
TALENT FOCUS: Professor Green Gated Content
Green - aka Stephen Manderson - told Music Week: "You have to make hay while the sun shines - the ...
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 ...
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 ...











































