BAND AID SINGLE SELLING WELL
95726
BAND AID 20âs &#39;DO THEY KNOW ITâS CHRISTMAS?&#39; is expected to sell 500,000 copies after its record company announced that it is âflying off the shelvesâ on its first day of release (November 29).
107138
Some of the biggest names in the music industry are getting together on Sunday to record a new Band Aid single.
104365
The Band Aid 20 charity single remains top of the charts, leaving it on course to be the Christmas number one.
515410
Coldplay, The Darkness and Travis are set to re-record Band Aid&#39;s hit single - to raise millions for Africa&#39;s new victims of famine.
135694
Around 100,000 copies of the new Band Aid single were sold on its first day of release yesterday, according to estimates. Eager shoppers were queueing before stores opened to get their hands on the CD; HMV opened up an hour early to accomodate the demand.
402602
The Band Aid song Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas? is to be re-recorded featuring Coldplay, The Darkness and Travis, reports say. It is 20 years since Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure recorded the first charity song
469988
Kylie Minogue raises Â£400,000 for charity by performing two songs at an Aids event in southern France.
615940
The founders of Band Aid, the 1984 charity effort that raised millions for Ethiopian famine relief, plan a new version of the single "Do They Know It's Christmas," a British newspaper reported.
467610
So far 2008 has not been a good year for music sales. This week Alicia Keys, below, stays atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the number of copies that CD sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that 61,000 copies of the album sold last week; the least number of weekly sales for No. 1 is 60,000, set by the âDreamgirlsâ soundtrack a year ago. (The numbers are rounded.) This week the âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino) is at No. 2 with 58,000, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) is No. 3 with 52,000, and Radioheadâs âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO) is next with 46,000. The R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn opens at No. 5 with 45,000 sales of âLove Behind the Melodyâ (J) and John Legendâs new âLive From Philadelphia,â available only through Target, reached No. 7 with 33,000.
446421
The Kaiser Chiefs rise to number one in the  UK singles chart, while Amy Winehouse's album is back on top.
31766
It&#39;s clear that shoppers know it&#39;s Christmas. The re-make of &#39;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas, the charity single recorded by many of Britain&#39;s top bands, sold 95,000 copies on its first day of release and was
231031
Initial details have been nailed down for the impending all-star recording of a "Band Aid III" charity single, involving members of such bands as Coldplay, Travis and the Darkness.
361331
Rock Band, the music simulator for Xbox 360 and PS3, was reported by MTV yesterday to have sold 2.5 million song downloads.
340012
X Factor winner Steve Brookstein knocks the Band Aid single off the top of the single chart after four weeks.
109402
The reworked Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" held tight to its top spot in the UK pop charts Sunday, bringing it a step closer to becoming the coveted Christmas No. 1.
188985
Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?," a re-recording by top British artists of the 1984 hit that raised millions for African famine relief, soared straight to number one on the UK pop charts Sunday.
411985
Sir Paul McCartney is the latest star to sign up for the new Band Aid charity single, to be released this month.