UK Music Charts Set for Shake-Up as Downloads Rise
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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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The UK music industry launches its first official download chart on BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday evening.
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EMI sees download music sales rise by nearly 600% in the six months to the end of September and says they are becoming a major part of its business.
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The British music industry wants to help independent labels utilise the potential for download sales.
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Virgin has become the latest company to launch an online music download service, but UK music fans will have to wait before they can give it a try.
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THE online music generation will become the legitimate test of the top 20 chart toppers next week when Virgin and BBC Radio One launch shows featuring tracks downloaded from the internet.
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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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As storage gets cheaper and download speeds faster, digital music files are moving closer to CD quality.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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The new Band Aid version of  Do They Know It's Christmas? looks set to go straight to the top of the UK singles chart.
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The UK music industry is set to prosecute people who music swap music illegally over the internet.
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TESCO, the UKâs largest supermarket, is to go head to head with iTunes and Napster by launching digital music downloads on its website.
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The record industry must radically re-think the way it tackles pop swapping, a music conference is told.
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Virgin Radio and online music service Napster, combining one of the oldest music mediums with the newest, have teamed up to create the first UK radio programme counting down the week&#39;s most downloaded songs.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Never mind the hugely anticipated new  releases from U2 and Eminem, the real contest on the U.K. pop  charts during the upcoming holiday season will be among a  multitude of hits packages.
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David Cameron renews call to music industry.
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Britain's battered music sector got some good news on Monday as second-quarter album sales grew, legal music downloads gained momentum and sales of CD singles -- a format nearly given up for dead -- bounced back.