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UK To Get Music Download Chart

Posted by timothy on from the bbc-one-bbc-two-bbc-three dept.

theOtherFool writes "The Observer reported today that BBC Radio One is to broadcast a chart of legally downloaded music. This is a big deal because the station is the broadcaster of pop music for our sceptered isle; it legitimises downloading and seems to show that the industry (or at least the BPI, our equivalent of the RIAA) is starting to accept it, rather than ignoring it and hoping it might go away."

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  1. Re:Industry already accepts it... by VertigoAce · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the article, you'll notice that the chart is based on paid downloads (ie iTunes). They are not using P2P network stats. This is just as vulnerable to astroturfing as retail sales charts are.

  2. Boy... by elFarto+the+2nd · · Score: 5, Funny

    British Phonographic Society

    Boy did I read that wrong the first time.

    Regards
    elFarto
  3. Great by Xargle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So it'll now be even cheaper and easier for record promoters to bulk buy singles to up their chart positions like they regularly do with existing formats.