Compass points to top of UK chart
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Fantasy epic The Golden Compass remains top of the UK box office chart in its second week on release.
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For the fifth year running, the Financial Times has taken the number one position as Europe's leading business title, as revealed in the Europe 2004 Survey.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Radiohead have earned their fifth UK chart-topper with "In Rainbows," which was released in stores last week, several months after fans were able to download it from the group's Web site for a price of their own choosing.
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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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The UK singles chart is set to count all downloads as the music industry is expected to lift restrictions on digital songs.
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Business & money: Britain's music shops receive badly needed good news with industry figures showing British shoppers led the world in CD purchases in 2006.
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The Rolling Stones may be ageing rockers but their pulling power is undimmed -- they topped the charts with the world's most successful music tour in the latest edition of Guinness World Records.
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US pop group Scissor Sisters achieve a UK double, topping the album and singles charts.
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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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Rock group Oasis have claimed the top two spots in a poll of the nation's best ever albums on Monday, ahead of iconic albums by The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
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Sales of singles in the UK show signs of recovery as the music industry as a whole grows, figures show.
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US punk-pop band Green Day's latest CD tops the UK album chart, selling 1.45m copies worldwide in a week.
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Singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner, one of the year's hottest new acts, hits number one in the UK album chart.
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Veteran rockers The Eagles have topped the US chart after a last-minute rule change by its compilers.
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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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A re-make of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has shot straight to number one in the British charts, official figures showed.
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Northern Ireland's latest A level results are revealed and, as predicted, they are better than ever.