UK music sees record album sales
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UK record companies are celebrating their best ever year for album sales, with 237 million sold in 12 months.
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Britons may soon be buying more music  singles over the Internet than the counter, forcing the UK  chart into its biggest shake-up in more than 50 years of  tracking and ranking sales.
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Singer Adele's first album, 19, goes straight to the top of the UK chart in its first week on sale.
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More than 72,000 copies of the new Band Aid single were sold on its first day of release, according to sales figures. A Band Aid spokesman said they were &quot;very, very happy&quot; with Monday&#39;s demand, which saw shops open early.
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Having a No. 1 album just isnât what it used to be. This week Alicia Keys is back atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the 61,000 copies it has sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album, Nielsen SoundScan reported. The âJunoâ soundtrack, on Rhino, fell to No. 2, with 55,000 sold. New releases dot the chart this week. The Mars Volta, which revels in head-spinningly complex progressive rock, opened in the third spot with 54,000 sales of âFrances the Muteâ (Universal); the Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine reached fourth place with âScream Aim Fireâ (Jive), selling 53,000; and the â2008 Grammy Nomineesâ compilation (Hip-O/Universal) moved 50,000, opening at No. 5. The remix album âHannah Montana 2: Non-Stop Dance Partyâ (Disney) bowed at No. 7, and Vampire Weekend, the acclaimed New York indie band, reached No. 17 with its self-titled debut on the XL label.
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A swing to growth in U.S. album sales  and surging consumption of music on DVD helped slow the decline  in first-half global sales of recorded music, the trade body  for the world's largest record companies said on Thursday.
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EMI signalled today it was winning the war against piracy after sales of downloaded music surged six-fold over the summer. The group unveiled profits of Â£36.9million for the six months to September 30, up 9% on a year ago.
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Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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Arts & entertainment: Group notch up the highest weekly sales for a seven-inch single for more than 20 years.
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While digital music revenues will grow to be eight per cent of the total European music market by 2009, the CD will remain the bedrock of music sales, according to a new report by market analysts Jupiter Research.
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Amy Winehouse album Back to Black is confirmed as the biggest selling album on the UK chart in 2007.
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Sales of legally downloaded songs shot up more than tenfold in 2004, a music industry report says.
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The UK music industry launches its first official download chart on BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday evening.
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U2 has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and won 14 Grammy Awards during the course of its 26-year career, so you would think that there would be a level of ease that comes with a new release.
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Online music stores broke into the  mainstream in 2004, with more than 200 million tracks sold in  the United States and Europe, a tenfold increase from the  previous year, according to data released on Wednesday.
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Singer Norah Jones' latest release becomes the 800th album to hit number one in the UK charts.