Hop Farm festival organisers celebrate success
Promoter Vince Power calls the Hop Farm and Mighty Boosh festivals a great success, while Dick Tee acknowledges car park problems and assaults on staff.…
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CMU festival weather report
CMU's weekly festival weather guide covers events from Northwich to Birmingham and Kinross, with forecasts and clothing tips for the weekend.…
Consumers trust friends over critics, study finds
Research by Avail Intelligence finds 41% of consumers trust friends and family for music recommendations, with 51% preferring CDs and average monthly CD spend of £9.…
7Digital confirm MP3 sales boom
7Digital reports a 300% rise in MP3 sales in the first half of the year, partly reflecting Warner Music's catalogue joining EMI's on DRM-free MP3.…
Mobile music set to boom
A survey by eMarketer predicts mobile music revenue will almost double this year to about $3 billion, reaching $7.3 billion by 2011.…
Web radio listening on the up
Research from RAJAR and MORI shows 9.4 million people listened to radio online in a given week, up from 8.1 million last November.…
Coldplay still top in US
Coldplay's album remains at number one in the US album chart, selling 249,000 copies last week, according to Neilsen Soundscan.…
Jay-Z's Glastonbury set boosts sales
Following his Glastonbury set, Jay-Z's '99 Problems' and 'Encore' are expected to chart, and Oasis's 'Wonderwall' has seen sales rise 200 per cent.…
Crime up at Glastonbury this year
Reported crimes at Glastonbury almost doubled this year to 489 incidents, mostly drug offences and tent thefts, though arrests fell slightly, police say.…
CMU festival weather report
CMU's weather team forecasts conditions for this weekend's festivals, including Glastonbury, Leigh Folk Festival, Faster Than Sound and Togfest, with rain expected for many events.…
EMI enjoy some US chart success
Coldplay have scored their first US number one single with 'Viva La Vida', and the album sold an estimated 316,000 copies on day one.…
Feargal Sharkey takes a more upbeat view of the BMR youth survey
British Music Rights boss Feargal Sharkey argues the youth survey shows young people are willing to pay for music if offered the right services.…