Good news for cash-strapped fans of record sales statistics. Record label trade body the BPI has announced that it has arranged with the Official Charts Company - of which it is a co-owner - so that indie labels can buy ad-hoc sales reports from the stats firm at a reduced rate.
BPI Director of Independent Member Services Julian Wall explains: "The chart database is incredibly sophisticated in what it can do, but up to this point a lot of the OCC data has been a little outside of the smaller independent labels budgets because of the premium cost of developing bespoke reports. Having consulted the independent membership, we now have a range of packages that deliver essential sales information in a more cost-effective way".
More details of the packages available and how they work will be announced at the BPI's AGM which takes place in London tomorrow.