Sales snag for McCartney album
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Copies of Sir Paul McCartney's new album bought in Starbucks stores will not count towards the top 40.
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Sir Paul McCartney is the latest star to sign up for the new Band Aid charity single, to be released this month.
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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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After a two-week streak during which the album selling periods of Christmas 2004 and New Year's Day 2005 looked stronger than their counterparts of a year ago, this week gives the appearance that the year's first sales week came up a loser, down almost 28% from the start of 2004.
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The new Band Aid single is released in UK record stores on Monday, with staff poised for a massive rush in sales.
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Eminem's new album debuted atop the charts, following a decision by the rapper's record label to move up the album's sale date amid piracy concerns.
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U.S. album sales plunged 9.5 percent last year from 2006 despite a 45 percent surge in the sale of digital tracks, Nielsen SoundScan reported yesterday.
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By PAUL REVOIR  IT'S 40 years since they were shaking the world in their mop-top prime.   But the Beatles could soon be topping the charts again after the ending of a legal battle which could pave the way for legal downloads of their music.
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Beatles fans will probably have to wait until next year before they can buy the Fab Four's tunes from online retailers such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes store, George Harrison's widow said on Friday.
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After painfully slow sales last month, the music industry finally has a hit: âSleep Through the Staticâ (Brushfire), by Jack Johnson, above, sold 375,000 copies last week â more than six times the sales of the top album the week before â to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It set a record for the most digital sales in a single week, with 139,000 copies, or 37 percent of its total, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In a week busy with high-profile releases, Sheryl Crowâs âDetoursâ (A&M) opened at No. 2 with 92,000 sales; Lenny Kravitz moved 73,000 copies of âIt Is Time for a Love Revolutionâ (Virgin) to bow at No. 4; and K. D. Lang is No. 8 with her new âWatershedâ (Nonesuch), selling 41,000. Last weekâs No. 1, Alicia Keysâs âAs I Amâ (J), dropped two spots with 80,000. Any sales bumps after last Sundayâs Grammy Awards would be reflected in next weekâs chart.
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O on  Thursday said sales of songs bought from its market-leading  iTunes online music store had topped 200 million, a figure that  was about in line with what some analysts had been expecting.
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Rare news footage and interviews with The Beatles goes on sale through download store Wippit.
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Apple&#39;S iTunes caused upset yesterday by securing the Band Aid charity single Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas for sale at 79p, instead of the Â£1.49 its rivals, from Napster to HMV, are asking customers to pay.
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Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
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com December 16, 2004, 3:01 PM PT. Apple Computer on Thursday said it has now sold more than 200 million songs through its iTunes Music Store--and it has new plans to keep the sales trend continuing upwards.
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A guitar played by George Harrison of  the Beatles was sold for $567,500 on Friday, topping the bill  at what auction house Christie's said was its biggest ever sale  of show business memorabilia.
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Kanye West sold almost a million  copies of his latest album during its first week in U.S.  stores, winning a much-hyped sales race with rival rapper 50  Cent and providing the ailing record industry with a rare piece  of good news.