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The death of the single

January 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment

From today, any song whatsoever that’s downloaded (from the legal sites being surveyed) can appear in the (singles) charts. The previous rules were that the (singles) charts were compiled from the sales of whatever singles were being currently pushed by the music industry and those who control it. This then liberalised to include figures for the downloading of songs currently being pushed as singles. That meant it excluded songs that were not current ’singles’ from inclusion in the figures. (more…)

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