Report damning of legitimate download services
A Shelley Taylor & Associates report criticises legitimate download services for confusing consumers, rating HMV and Sony Connect poorly and French retailer Fnac best.…
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Sets British chart history
Elvis Presley's re-release of 'One Night' becomes the 1000th UK number one, his twentieth chart topper, as BMG re-release 18 of his singles.…
Usage down
BayTSP data show Kazaa's simultaneous users fell to 2.27 million in December, while eDonkey led with 2.81 million users.…
Heading for 1000th number one slot
Elvis's re-release 'One Night' is likely to become the 1000th UK number one, outselling the Manic Street Preachers' 'Empty Souls' by nine times.…
Universal still biggest record company in the US
Universal Music held a 29.59% US market share in 2004 per Nielsen-SoundScan, ahead of BMG at 15.20% and a combined SonyBMG at 28.46%.…
UK album sales hit all-time high in 2004
UK retailers sold 163.4 million albums in 2004, a new all-time high, while legal downloads passed single sales in the run-up to Christmas.…
US record sales up for first time in four years
Nielsen Soundscan says US CD sales rose 2.4% in 2004, the first rise in four years, despite growing legal downloads.…
Top BBC's 2005 tips poll
New York's The Bravery top BBC News Online's Sound of 2005 survey, with Bloc Party, Kano and The Game following in the top ten.…
Sisters best seller of 04, actually
Christmas sales of Scissor Sisters' debut album pushed it above Keane to top the 2004 best-selling album chart, with the revised top ten listed.…
Heading for number one
Midweek sales suggest Elvis's re-release of 'Jailhouse Rock' will top the UK chart, which would give him his 19th number one and a potential 1000th British number one.…
Young tops Heat's best body poll
Will Young topped the male category and Rachel Stevens the female category in Heat magazine's best body poll of 10,000 readers.…
Scissor Sisters narrowly miss out on topping poll of polls
A poll compiled by HMV from music media end-of-year lists ranks Kanye West's 'The College Dropout' first, with Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand next.…