Article: Record labels seek chart rule change.(music industry wants digital downloads to be counted as market sales)(Brief article)

Article: Music downloads shake up singles chart.
New Media Age;  January 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The inclusion of all digital downloads in the Official UK Singles Chart has already seen past hits ... included in the Official UK Singles Chart for the first time, heralding ... biggest shake-up of the Singles Chart since it launched in 1952 ...

Article: BPI delays adding downloads to singles ...
The Online Reporter;  March 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... inclusion of digital downloads in the UK's Official Singles Chart. The BPI made ... Official UK Singles Chart is the most ... new combined singles chart. In the US ... started including digital downloads in its Top 100 ...

Article: NEWS ANALYSIS: Digital downloads starting to count ...
New Media Age;  June 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Phonographic Institute (BPI) revealed that digital downloads have more than tripled in the last ... rules "crazy". "The Official UK Singles Chart should be an accurate reflection of ... digital is overtaking physical in the singles chart, saying the high street will still ...

Article: Hicks heads to the top of Billboard singles ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 24, 2006 ;     435 words ... ... the champion of the Billboard singles chart with Do I Make You Proud. In ... 000 copies to lead the Hot 100 singles chart put out by Billboard. In addition ... Hicks' single sold 38,000 digital downloads, according to Nielsen Soundscan ...

Article: Top of the Pops producer says the singles chart is ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  September 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... astonishing attack on the official singles chart on which the show is based ... necessary, he said, to reform the singles chart, which is administered by the ... piloting a way of including digital downloads of music into the way the chart ...

Article: Singles chart remix to favour golden oldies ; HOME
The Independent - London;  December 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The singles chart is poised to undergo one of the most significant transformations ... the sale of a CD single or seven-inch vinyl release. Instead, digital downloads, which outstripped high street sales for the first time earlier ...

Article: Downloads to shake up singles chart
Evening Standard - London;  December 29, 2006 ;     348 words ...THE singles chart is to get a radical shake-up to take account of the online music ... Crazy hit number one without a copy being sold over the counter. Digital downloads now outsell CDs. .Networking sites such as Bebo and MySpace are ...