Heart overtakes Capital in latest London radio ratings as Capital’s figures slip
Chrysalis’s Heart has become London’s most popular commercial station, beating Capital in listeners and share, as RAJAR figures show Capital slipping.…
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Over 120,000 vote in DJ poll
DJ Mag has received 123,955 votes from 147 countries in this year's DJ Poll, with the new Top 100 announced at Ministry Of Sound.…
City firms cautious about music business' future
Investment analysts Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Fulcrum Global Partners have published cautious or pessimistic reports on the music industry's profitability.…
James Blunt has biggest selling album of the year
James Blunt's 'Back to Bedlam' is the year's biggest-selling album so far with 1.53 million copies, pushing Coldplay's 'X & Y' to second place.…
Women are bigger downloaders than men
TuneTribe research, backed by the BPI Music Buyers Survey, suggests women now account for 50.9% of the digital music download market.…
US record sales still in decline
US record sales are down 2.6% on the same period last year and 10% year-to-date, while UK sales have risen in the same period.…
Prudential survey reveals Brits' music spending habits
A Prudential survey conducted by TNS estimates the average Briton spends about £21,000 on music in a lifetime, including hi-fi equipment and gigs.…
Naked Lennon shot tops best magazine cover survey
A naked John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono, from Rolling Stone in 1980, has topped a survey of the best US magazine covers of the last 40 years.…
INXS get their highest US chart entry ever
INXS have debuted at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Pretty Vegas', their highest US chart entry, featuring new frontman JD Fortune.…
Beatles named icons of the last century
The Beatles top a Variety survey of entertainment icons of the last hundred years, ahead of Louis Armstrong and a list dominated by actors.…
Glastonbury organisers praised by local authority
Mendip District Council has praised the 2005 Glastonbury Festival as more successful than 2004, with arrests down and noise control improved.…
UK record sales up
BPI figures show album sales up 1.4 per cent in the summer quarter, with artist sales up 8.9 per cent, while physical singles slumped and download sales rose sharply.…