The BPI have said a key priority for the industry association just now is enabling independent labels to get equal access to key download platforms, to ensure they don’t lose out when digital music sales are incorporated into the British singles chart next month.
BPI boss Peter Jamieson told CMU yesterday: “We want to ensure that independent repertoire is as successful in the download world as it is the physical world. With downloads shortly to be eligible for the singles chart, this is a key commercial issue on which the BPI is committed to assisting its members.”
In that bid Jamieson says his organisation will be lobbying key digital music providers asking them to ensure their customers can buy current and forthcoming independent releases from their online stores. The BPI will also stage a series of six seminars under the banner ‘Getting Your Music Online’ which will be aimed at the organisation’s independent members
- details of those seminars are as follows:
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Feb, 5.30pm: Marketing to the Chart
Speakers: 7 Digital, Blueprint, The Orchard
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Feb, 4.30pm: Chart Eligibility
Speakers: The Official UK Charts Company, CatCo, Outside Line
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Mar: 5.30pm: The Digital Retailers
Speakers: Loudeye (OD2), iTunes, recordstore.co.uk
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Mar, 5.30pm: The Digital Retailers
Speakers: Napster, Real (Rhapsody), DRML
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Apr: 5.30pm Getting Your Music Online Part 5
Speakers: TBC
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Apr: 5.30pm: The Mobile World
Speakers: TBC
All seminars are free to BPI members - non-members can attend for a small fee - details from the BPI. Announcing the seminars
Jamieson told CMU: “These seminars mark another step in the process of improving our services to members. We are committed to helping our members improve their businesses in whatever way we can.”