Industry trade mag Music Week undergoes its latest relaunch next week, with a new logo and everything. There'll be new content sections too, part of a mission to expand the weekly's editorial remit to include more stuff on the live, publishing and media sectors.
Charts will still be an important part of the mix, though, and yesterday they announced they'd be including three new catalogue charts in the magazine from next week, recognising the ever increasing importance of catalogue sales to record companies. The charts will only include releases more than two years old, and will split catalogue sales into studio albums, greatest hits albums and downloads.
Music Week editor Paul Williams says this: "These charts reflect the growing importance of the catalogue market for today's music business. While sales of new releases have struggled this year, artists such as Abba and Neil Diamond have enjoyed strong catalogue sales, while retailers such as zavvi and hmv are increasingly focussing their attentions on catalogue".