Il Divo and Kate Bush go head to head on sales
Il Divo and Kate Bush are vying for the album chart's top spot this weekend, with HMV tipping Il Divo and Virgin Megastores tipping Bush.…
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Robbie the best seller so far this century
A Channel 4 survey ranks the UK's best-selling album artists of the century so far, with Robbie Williams, Coldplay and Dido at the top.…
Mobile music increasingly popular with teens
A TNS survey of 6,800 16-18 year olds finds one in five listen to music on MP3 mobiles, though poor sound quality and storage put some off.…
ITV4 launch night a success
ITV says ITV4's launch night was the most successful ever for a digital station, averaging 447,000 viewers and a 3.3% share, helped by a football match.…
Westlife on course for album number one
Westlife are likely to top the album chart this week, selling 65,000 copies to Robbie Williams's 40,000 in his second week of 'Intensive Care'.…
Cream reunion concerts made huge amount of money
Cream's three reunion concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden reportedly earned more than £6 million, with 56,000 attending, though the band won't reunite again.…
Crazy Frog says Westlife are has-beens
The Crazy Frog has called Westlife 'has-beens' as they and Diana Ross chase a Christmas number one, while HMV's Gennaro Castaldo weighs in.…
Survey finds majority unaware of digital TV switch
A survey by retailer You Met TV found two thirds of the UK population are unaware analogue TV signals will be switched off between 2008 and 2012.…
Apple sell over one million videos on iTunes in under a month
Apple has sold over one million videos through the iTunes Music Store in less than a month since the new iPod Video launched on 12 October.…
Paul van Dyk tops DJ Mag Top 100 poll
Paul van Dyk has topped the DJ Mag Top 100 poll for the first time, displacing Tiesto, who falls to second place in a record 123,955-vote poll.…
Yahoo and AOL top online music traffic poll
Center For Media Research figures show Yahoo! Music and AOL Music have much larger US audiences than download platform iTunes.…
Young people spending ever more on ringtones, survey finds
A survey by ringtones company Xingtone suggests the average teenager will spend £4,320 on ringtones over the next fifteen years.…