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UK album chart to go digital this week, Morrissey headed for #1 - NME

posted by davidt on Friday April 07 2006, @10:00AM
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UK album chart to go digital - NME.com
Morrissey looks set to top first intergrated chart

The UK albums chart will start counting downloads for the first time this weekend (April 9).

Until this week, while the singles chart counted downloads towards final chart placings, the LPs poll only included physical album sales.

Now paid for album downloads will be eligible for The Official UK Charts Company's countdown.

"With a catalogue of over 80,000 albums available online through legal service providers the number of digital album downloads will certainly increase," said Charts Director Omar Maskatiya of the change, adding that last year 1.8 million digital albums were downloaded.

According to the midweek figures, Morrissey looks set to top the first ever integrated download chart, with 'Ringleader Of The Tormentors' on course to be Number One.
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  • This is great news!
    Anonymous -- Friday April 07 2006, @10:29AM (#209732)
    • Re:Fantastic! by Kristina (Score:1) Friday April 07 2006, @10:45AM
    • Re:Fantastic! by lovely eek (Score:1) Saturday April 08 2006, @02:51AM
    • Re:Fantastic! by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday April 09 2006, @05:48AM
    • Re:Fantastic! by Kerki (Score:1) Friday April 07 2006, @11:04AM
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    • Re:Fantastic! by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday April 07 2006, @11:44AM
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  • But considering this album is nowhere near as good as some of his others (Vauxhall, Arsenal, Viva Hate), it just serves as more evidence that the chart has nothing to do with album quality.
    Anonymous -- Friday April 07 2006, @11:33AM (#209762)
  • Rott going to number 1 without much TV coverage (No Jonathan Ross) or any other promotion. Well done! Love Morissey!
    Anonymous -- Friday April 07 2006, @01:21PM (#209816)
  • He can take his place in the human race, having made more than “one reasonably OK album, and you have awards, flowers, gold medals, the whole world at your feet” (from Paul Morley’s NME interview). Has he ever been regaled with such a profusion of plaudits, as his newborn cherub/prodigy is smiled upon by the world, and so embraced, can he continue to avoid “the wrong people”? Morrissey, this is your life!

    goinghome -- Friday April 07 2006, @02:35PM (#209850)
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    • fact check by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday April 08 2006, @05:44PM
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  • Wow! America has counted virtually all download music sales since the iTunes music store went live. Crazy.

    love, math+
    Math Tinder -- Friday April 07 2006, @02:36PM (#209851)
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