iTunes competing well with P2P networks in US
An NPD survey shows iTunes ranked joint second among US online music services in March, with 1.7 million users, level with LimeWire.…
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Coldplay shift mega units in UK and US
Coldplay's 'X&Y' sold over 150,000 copies on its first day in the UK and more than 600,000 in the US, with UK sales expected to pass half a million.…
Jonathan Ross tops radio poll
Jonathan Ross has been named the most important person in British radio in a Radio Times poll of seventy radio figures, ahead of Terry Wogan and John Humphreys.…
Illegal filesharing still on the up
NPD reports P2P file sharing in the US rose 25% year on year in March, while legal download transactions rose 52% over the same period.…
Shazam identifies 10 millionth track
Mobile song recognition service Shazam has identified its ten millionth track, which was by The Killers.…
Robbie tops best live act poll
Robbie Williams has been named best live solo artist and U2 best live band in a Carling survey of 5000 music fans.…
Oasis top best song poll
Virgin Radio listeners voted Oasis' Wonderwall the best British song ever, ahead of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven.…
Crazy Frog outselling Coldplay
The Crazy Frog version of Axel F is outselling Coldplay's Speed Of Sound by about three to one in mid-week chart sales.…
Oasis have most chart weeks in the last decade
Oasis have spent 766 weeks in the UK singles and albums charts over the last ten years, more than Robbie Williams, Madonna, Britney Spears, Eminem and U2.…
Another best song survey
BBC Radio 2 listeners have voted for the best song in each decade since 1955, with Robbie Williams' Angels topping 1995-2004 and the Beatles absent from the final five.…
Elvis officially most successful act of all time
Guinness World Records has named Elvis Presley the most successful music act of all time, with Michael Jackson moving up to number eight and Robbie Williams entering the top 50.…
Tickets from unofficial sources can cost double
Group 4 Securicor research suggests unofficial ticket sites charge up to double face value, and some tickets do not exist.…