Singles boost as UK music grows
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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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Indie band Scouting for Girls hold on to the number one spot in the UK album chart for a second week.
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Brits success helps return Keane's album Hopes and Fears back to the top of the UK album chart.
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Several major forces in the music industry changed their tunes this week, as industry giants and niche players alike try to stay on top of the fast-changing market.
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Singer Rihanna is dominating the UK pop music scene after reaching number one in both the singles and album charts.
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Justin Timberlake's second album enters the top of the UK charts at number one.
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LONDON (Billboard) - The music scene in the northern UK city of Manchester -- famous for producing bands like Joy Division/New Order, the Smiths and Oasis -- is thriving again, with a new generation of bands tipped for breakout success in 2008.
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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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A greater proportion of silver discs go to UK acts on independent labels than ever before, an industry body claims.
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CLASSIC songs that should have been No1 but didn't quite make it are being given a second chance by an internet campaign.   As downloads now count to the Official Singles Chart, a surge in internet sales of an old hit could catapult it to the top spot.
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LONDON -- 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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The drive to develop legal peer-to-peer online music services, where consumers share songs over the internet, received a boost this week when three of the four major record
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British talent including Dido, Will Young, and Katie Melua pushed United Kingdom album sales to a record 237 million units in the year ending Sept.
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Justin Timberlake knocked Beyonce and   Jay-Z off the top of the British pop charts on Sunday to claim   his first solo UK number one with "Sexyback."
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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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Record company executives are banking on the Brit awards to increase sales for nominated artists
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Justin Timberlake knocked Beyonce and Jay-Z off the top of the British pop charts on to claim his first solo UK number one with "Sexyback."