UK Singles Chart To Include Digital Only Sales

The UK Top 40 singles chart will now allow digital-only tracks to be included in the weekly Hit Parade listing for the first time in its history. As of the first of January, the Official UK Charts Company, which runs the marketing survey, has dropped its requirement that labels must produce the song in some physical form. The OCC began to include digital downloads in 2004, and in March last year a song by Gnarls Barkly’s Crazy...

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iTunes Reportedly Overwhelmed On Christmas Day

Thousands of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards reportedly overwhelmed Apple’s iTunes music store on Christmas day, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song. Disenchanted users began posting “unhappy” messages Monday and Tuesday on Apple’s technical forum for iTunes, complaining they were either not allowed into the store or were told...

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