UK music sees record album sales
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UK record companies are celebrating their best ever year for album sales, with 237 million sold in 12 months.
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R&B singer Ciara's second release  is expected to top the U.S. pop album charts when sales data  are issued Wednesday.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Never mind the hugely anticipated new  releases from U2 and Eminem, the real contest on the U.K. pop  charts during the upcoming holiday season will be among a  multitude of hits packages.
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EMI, home to artists such as Robbie Williams, Radiohead and Norah Jones, reported explosive growth in digital music sales yesterday and said it was winning the battle against piracy.
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Girls Aloud enter the new World Records book with the most consecutive UK top 10s by a female act.
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Arts & entertainment: Group notch up the highest weekly sales for a seven-inch single for more than 20 years.
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From Coldplay to Outkast, the music industry is anticipating a year of major releases.
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Reformed Take That top the UK's singles and albums charts simultaneously for the first time in their career.
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Singer Norah Jones' latest release becomes the 800th album to hit number one in the UK charts.
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Online music stores broke into the  mainstream in 2004, with more than 200 million tracks sold in  the United States and Europe, a tenfold increase from the  previous year, according to data released on Wednesday.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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Brits success helps return Keane's album Hopes and Fears back to the top of the UK album chart.
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Britain's battered music sector got some good news on Monday as second-quarter album sales grew, legal music downloads gained momentum and sales of CD singles -- a format nearly given up for dead -- bounced back.
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Sales of legally downloaded songs shot up more than tenfold in 2004, a music industry report says.
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Elvis Presley is likely to score his third UK number one single in a row on Sunday, according to sales figures.
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Chart bosses are expected to relax rules for digital songs, allowing all downloads to count towards the UK top 40.
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One million copies of the new Band Aid single will be sent to record shops in time for its UK release on Monday.