Rihanna dominates UK charts
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The top three in this week's singles charts remain unchanged with R&B star Rihanna holding fast at number one.
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Arts & entertainment: Chart news: The Graduation artist beats 50 Cent in the singles charts, too, though Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls still slays them all.
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In a twist for the music industryâs digital revolution, the new Radiohead album ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week.
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EMI, home to artists such as Robbie Williams, Radiohead and Norah Jones, reported explosive growth in digital music sales yesterday and said it was winning the battle against piracy.
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Beyonce led the Billboard Hot 100  singles chart for a 10th consecutive week Thursday with  "Irreplaceable," while Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" climbed  one spot to a new peak of No. 2.
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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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Mika heads the UK singles and albums charts despite a boost in sales for acts seen performing at the Brit Awards.
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Flamboyant New York band the Scissor  Sisters dominated music sales in Britain for a second week as  they stayed at the top of both the singles and album charts.
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Last week was another miserable one for music sales, but with one modest highlight: The indie-heavy âJunoâ movie soundtrack rose one spot to the top of the Billboard chart, becoming the first album in Rhino Recordsâ three-decade history to reach No. 1. After the announcement of four Oscar nominations for âJuno,â including best picture, the soundtrack sold 65,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, bumping Alicia Keysâs âAs I Amâ (J), which moved 60,000, to No. 2. In the fourth straight week of very low sales, Natasha Bedingfield opened at No. 3 with 50,000 copies of âPocketful of Sunshineâ (Epic), Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) sold 45,000 to reach No. 4, and Radiohead dropped one spot to No. 5 with âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO), moving 35,000. Cat Powerâs new âJukeboxâ (Matador) reached No. 12 with 29,000 copies sold.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Despite having been released on  Friday, Eminem's new album "Encore" went straight to the top of  the U.K. charts Sunday.
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Arts & entertainment: The new rave band have let slip that they are to perform a duet with Rihanna at this year's Brit awards
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Rock duo The White Stripes enter the UK album chart at number one with their latest release, Icky Thump.
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R&B star Rihanna spends her ninth week at number one with her single Umbrella, her biggest hit to date.
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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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Rihanna&#39;s &quot;Umbrella&quot; begins a  seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, having  successfully fended off Shop Boyz&#39; &quot;Party Like a Rockstar,&quot;  which drops from No. 2 to No. 4.
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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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Mark Ronson, Adele, Natasha Khan and the Hoosiers discuss the state of UK music at the launch of the Brit awards 2008